Leaving Amiga - Need PC emulation / music recording advice.

[spihunter]

You could probably find something free on the PC these days that would do everything Bars & Pipes can do.

You could always dual boot windows/Linux and try free Linux MIDI apps as well. ex: Rosegarden

[spihunter]

@bloodline,

Garageband is pretty good, but you are not going to do any Professional work with it.

That might have been true in the past but now that Garageband is 24bit and can do 4 different real time effects per track at once I see no need to upgrade to Logic.

Click on the link in my Sig and listen to "Dancing Milk Cartons"

It was done with Garageband, AU plugins, a single MIDI Keyboard, and a microphone.

As far as the original poster goes though Gargageband cant do the type of MIDI setup he has going.

It all depends on what your writing and how you do it I guess?

[spihunter]

Are you saying you're using your external HD for your audio workspace? how many tracks do you record and playback at once? Have you not noticed how slow copying files to and from any usb drive is when compared to firewire or pc usb? I simply can't believe you wouldn't notice the slowness. What mac do you have again? is it PPC or Intel? perhaps that is the answer?

I have an external USB and Firewire hardrive hooked to my MacBook and I dont see these 50% slower USB speeds that you speak of. I had a similar set of USB and Firewire drives on my old G4 Mac Mini and never saw these slow downs compared to similar drives hooked to my PC. I also have a USB Audio interface hooked to the same bus.

I'm no expert but I think pro folks using Macs would have noticed a 50% slow down on USB drives. I dont see it.