sharke

dubdisciple
I loved my Vic-20 and c-64.  My first experience with assembly language was on the vic-20

And mine on the C64. Didn't even have an assembler, used to write them out on paper, convert to hex then decimal and load the instructions via POKE statements. Talk about dedicated!

 
I had forgotten all about that.  I wrote a lotto numbers picking program completely with Poke commands on a Timex Sinclair 1000, WAY back in the 80's, if memory fragments serve.  After it picked the numbers, it would flash "Baby needs new shoes!" over and over.
 
Bob Bone
 

SuperG
Well and good, although I do think you were a bit rash in even bring that subject up. Also, as I said, most folks don't take general remarks personally, and I would suggest that you do not make assumptions about another's character, unless you are willing to have them made about yours - it's not non-sense at all.

Ya, how dare you mention Apple around here. The nerve! Unless you want childish name calling and such.

dubdisciple

MakeShiftIs n't an MPEG file an MP3?  My iTunes shows that I have numerous MPEG files mixed in with the AAC files.  I'm not really up on this, maybe they have been modified in some way, but I thought the MPEG's were just MP3's?

sorting through all the various mpeg formats (both audio and video) is daunting and confusing at times.  mp3's get converted to mp4 files when placed in itunes. 

I don't think so. It may depend on your import setting maybe? All my stuff is regular mp3 in iTunes.

ubuntu
I've moved to Cubase 7. One of the best moves I've ever made. But I still visit this forum. Why? A mixture of nostalgia and curiosity. I've been a Cakewalk user since the previous century.

Ditto - word for word!

i miss the poke command

POKE 53280,x : C64 screen border color
POKE 53281,x : C64 screen background color

Funny how you remember such trivia after 30 years.

WDI

SuperG
Well and good, although I do think you were a bit rash in even bring that subject up. Also, as I said, most folks don't take general remarks personally, and I would suggest that you do not make assumptions about another's character, unless you are willing to have them made about yours - it's not non-sense at all.

Ya, how dare you mention Apple around here. The nerve! Unless you want childish name calling and such.

Heh, it's not a mention of Apple as much as it's the obligatory disdain and dismissal of Windows System that nearly always accompanies such posts. Such comments are quite worthy of rebuttal.

Shatke..I now must search ebay for a c64

SuperG

WDI

SuperG
Well and good, although I do think you were a bit rash in even bring that subject up. Also, as I said, most folks don't take general remarks personally, and I would suggest that you do not make assumptions about another's character, unless you are willing to have them made about yours - it's not non-sense at all.

Ya, how dare you mention Apple around here. The nerve! Unless you want childish name calling and such.

Heh, it's not a mention of Apple as much as it's the obligatory disdain and dismissal of Windows System that nearly always accompanies such posts. Such comments are quite worthy of rebuttal.

You know, I am getting sick and tired of all this PC vs Apple stuff.
 
They both have their weaknesses and their strengths.
 
Honestly, we have some really powerful platforms here that can do way more than some of the things we used even 7 years ago.
 
I just wish both sides would just grow up and stop b***tching at each other here...
 
Sheesh.

jimusic

ubuntu
I've moved to Cubase 7. One of the best moves I've ever made. But I still visit this forum. Why? A mixture of nostalgia and curiosity. I've been a Cakewalk user since the previous century.

Ditto - word for word!

Ditto 3 . . . . I was always a watcher out here and did not participate much anyway (I mean look at my post count)! 
 
My deciding factor to go Cubase was when I ran a Demo of Cubase 6.5 and did VST expression.  I was hooked.  I then ran a demo of Ableton live and put together 3 songs in 4 hours using Ableton then rewired it back into Cubase for mix down.  And I have been a Cakewalk users since the 12 tone days.  I still have the 3 1/2 inch disks with Greg Hendershott's name on them.  I believe it was Cakewalk 2.0 . . . . .
 
It has also made it easier with my client base.  All of my clients use Cubase/Pro Tools/Logic/Ableton.   I was always the black sheep with Sonar and Reaper and it always took me a bit longer to get tracks set swapping files back and forth.  I could not just send the project file.  I had to export it to wave, or go through this painful task of exporting midi, saving fxp and fxb settings, etc.  Now I have 3 of the 4 DAWs so it makes it easier to bounce Projects back and forth.  It was about the workflow.
 
I did a lot of things in the past year I said I would not do.  I sold all of my UAD last year and went native when I realized I did a project using no UAD plugs and it did not nuke my PC like I thought it would (the project barely got to 40 percent CPU use).  Even more was the fact the it sounded just as good native as it did with the UAD plugs.  And I was the biggest UAD fanboi ever.  You're talking 8 UAD2 quads between 2 workstations and every single plugin.  Luckily my timing was good because no Sonar version nor Cubase 7 are qualified hosts for UAD now (even though I know people are using UAD2 with Sonar).  But I can now move projects back and forth between collaborators without worry about the person on the other end not having UAD, and that was more important than the DSP.  And Waves plugins are no pushovers (even though they get a bad rap in forums).  But again, it was about speed and workflow.
 
I went back to hardware after I said I would stay totally in the box.   I got hardware Analog synths, got outboard for Mix bus compression and mastering, and got analog summing.  Now mind you I still do the bulk of the work in the box (for collaboration and recall), but using hardware synths did not slow down my workflow since Ableton's Max for Live and Soundtower had editors that would allow me to use my hardware like plugins, and the hardware has made my mixes stand out in a overrun sea of ITB dance mixes.
 
Things can and do change.  But I still lurk around both this forum and UAD more for curiosity, and because I miss it.
 
I guess my point is it' all about your workflow.  Use what works for you.  PC, Mac, Sonar, Logic, UAD, Waves, Soft Synth, Hardware Synth, Iphone, Galaxy, Izod . . . who cares!  Does it work for you?  Do you get what you want out of it?  If so, then keep writing great tracks.  After all, it's all about the music . . .
 
Enjoy everyone.  That's probably the longest post I have ever done out here!