Re:The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway
by cyberdelica on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:04AM
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I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong. Furthermore, I'm not talking about the history of hardware/software in Hollywood - your original statement was about the use of software by audio professionals. I was an "audio professional". I trained as a Sound Engineer (City & Guilds 1820 Sound Engineering, and BTEC ND Music Technology), and was there, right around the time period in question. I also worked in London's West End for years, which is the equivalent of New Yorks's Broadway.
I want to be charitable, and hope you're getting confused about the "Apple" versions - in that, you're conflating when Apple (the company) bought Emagic Logic, for when Logic (the software) was available on Apple Mac OS?! Either way, doesn't make your former statements any less incorrect.
Re:The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway
by FireBeyond on Friday December 25, 2020 @07:22PM
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> Cubase, which was definitely Windows-first
The Atari ST Cubase 1.0 would like to dispute this. I remember sulking because it wasn't available for my Amiga.
Re:The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway
by gamblor956 on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:09PM
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Nothing to dispute. Cubase was also available for the Atari because Atari was still the big platform for audio at the time. But it was programmed on Windows, for Windows, and the next version of Cubase (the famous one, which introduced VSTs) dropped support for Atari altogether.
Re:The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway
by philjohn on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:55PM
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Not quite - https://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/a-brief-history-of-s...
Windows version didn't come until 1992, the Atari and Mac versions were released before that (Mac before Atari, however, the precursor by the same company was developed for Atari first).
Today, most Hollywood composers use Cubase, which was definitely Windows-first. TV productions favor Studio One, which again, was Windows-first (and from the same developers as Cubase). Pro Tools is industry standard for Hollywood movies...but it didn't become the standard until version 6, running on Windows. Ableton Live, which is the most popular tool for recording live music, was written first on Windows (but originally commercially released simultaneously for Windows and Apple).
And Logic on Mac was very much inferior to Logic on Windows, which is why Windows was the preferred platform for running Logic. The Mac version didn't become better than the Windows version until version 6, for which there was no Windows version. While all accounts say that Logic is a great DAW these days, because it's Mac-only, the only production companies that run Logic are ones that are exclusively Mac-based.