Jkist7
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Bruh that's a magnet.
Rumor mill: John Mayer plugin coming soon?
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Chocol8
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I made the move Monday after the superbowl a couple years ago. My Windows laptop died on me, and I won $2k in a Super Bowl squares pool, so I said fuck it, I am trying a MacBook Pro! There are some differences to learn and some minor annoyances, but after a couple years of use, I really love it. It is SO much more efficient, it's hard to compare a windows laptop for anything other than gaming.
JiveTurkey
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I'm not scared of the thought at all at this point. Seeing the path of Windows 11 and the overall trajectory of MS' path and just shaking my head kind burst that bubble for me. I'm due for a new laptop here in another year or so and I will probably head the Macbook direction.
Dom Mcsweeney
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Do it.
I wish I wasn't saying that, really, because it's just fucking weird not using Windows, but everything feels wrong with Microsoft at the moment.
You'll never regret getting one of the current Macs for pissing around with audio software, and they're eerily quiet, efficient and low in temperature, and ridiculously stable in comparison.
You will probably find it fucking annoying in other ways though...
Gah, stupid computers.
I wish I wasn't saying that, really, because it's just fucking weird not using Windows, but everything feels wrong with Microsoft at the moment.
You'll never regret getting one of the current Macs for pissing around with audio software, and they're eerily quiet, efficient and low in temperature, and ridiculously stable in comparison.
You will probably find it fucking annoying in other ways though...
Gah, stupid computers.
ian_dissonance
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See, I like having everything right there. I added a bunch of extra buttons for stuff I don’t do all the time. I have to use ProTools every so often and those menus/screennms/tools are abysmal to deal with.View attachment 56710
This right here is dumb. And the first thing you see. I know what a razor blade is and a metronome but a sideways horseshoe? Um no. Put the transport up top where it goes. I know there are tool tips but this iconography is like hierogliphic madness when you've already spent too long "readying the recording space" as it is to then have to go in and attend junior engineer school to understand the concepts and tools at hand. I'm probably more than slightly exaggerating but I'm always going on the DAW hunt at the lowest patience points of whatever timeframe I am in and it hits me WRONG
The thing is; every DAW has these same tools I am assuming. It's just the way it GLARES at you the minute you fire it up. Drives me NUTS.
Sideways horseshoe is funny. Its a magnet. And as you pointed out, Magnet = snap to grid. Personally I think words would have been a better choice than esoteric symbols. I mean snap, fade, link and grid could all easily fit in the space those Icons take up.
Sascha Franck
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Get a Mac. Download Garageband. Enjoy life.
Dom Mcsweeney
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(see previous post, that wasn't my terminology)...
ps. if you hover over the button, there's a tool tip, and they are all customisable so you can have text if you want instead.
JiveTurkey
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I can see that. Whatever you are NOT used to in a DAW is for me the culprit. I probably just need to record things (even if they suck) more often the keep that part of my brain working.
That's.......on the menu at some point.
Dom Mcsweeney
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Didn't Fender release an easy-peasy DAW a few months ago?
JiveTurkey
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They did. Fisher Price AF
Dom Mcsweeney
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JiveTurkey
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I'm obviously pretty magnetic so that tracks
Dom Mcsweeney
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I'll probably leave it at that now for a while, I never usually mess with snap settings anyway.
