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Hi,
If possible, I would like to run Logic Pro 8, which is a Mac only application, on a Vista Ultimate (or something else) PC. I heard that one of VMware's products, which I cant find, is able to do that.
Logic Pro is audio editing software (well a little bit more as that, but for the general idea, the description works) so using that in a virtualized OSX on Windows Vista isn't exactly going to give you what you need. The reason?
Your sound card will be virtualized and while it is good enough quality for listening, it certainly doesn't cut the mustard when you are authoring music.
There's really just one solution.
Go buy a Mac!
I know the arguments "it's expensive... yada yada...." but if you have any artistic qualities, then you will quickly see that the software you get by default in OSX is much more useful as what you get with Windows Vista. How many tracks can you record in "Sound recorder"? Have you seen the alternative (garageband) in OSX? That's basically Logic Pro light...
With Vista you get the OS and have to buy the rest as the artistic software that's included are toy applications, not fit for daily use. Which in the end makes Vista a more expensive choice as OSX.
I know that I now probably sound as a mactard or something, but I use many more operating systems and OSX is the obvious choice on authoring audio/video/photography while your Vista/WinXP is good for games. With OSX Boot Camp you can have it all (dual boot to windows if required) and with VMware Fusion you can even access your native Windows app from within OSX as if it is a native application.
The software that Tom references might make an end to all this, but right now it is not available, so you don't have the option to use it.
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Wil
Hi,
If possible, I would like to run Logic Pro 8, which is a Mac only application, on a Vista Ultimate (or something else) PC. I heard that one of VMware's products, which I cant find, is able to do that.
Logic Pro is audio editing software (well a little bit more as that, but for the general idea, the description works) so using that in a virtualized OSX on Windows Vista isn't exactly going to give you what you need. The reason?
Your sound card will be virtualized and while it is good enough quality for listening, it certainly doesn't cut the mustard when you are authoring music.
There's really just one solution.
Go buy a Mac!
I know the arguments "it's expensive... yada yada...." but if you have any artistic qualities, then you will quickly see that the software you get by default in OSX is much more useful as what you get with Windows Vista. How many tracks can you record in "Sound recorder"? Have you seen the alternative (garageband) in OSX? That's basically Logic Pro light...
With Vista you get the OS and have to buy the rest as the artistic software that's included are toy applications, not fit for daily use. Which in the end makes Vista a more expensive choice as OSX.
I know that I now probably sound as a mactard or something, but I use many more operating systems and OSX is the obvious choice on authoring audio/video/photography while your Vista/WinXP is good for games. With OSX Boot Camp you can have it all (dual boot to windows if required) and with VMware Fusion you can even access your native Windows app from within OSX as if it is a native application.
The software that Tom references might make an end to all this, but right now it is not available, so you don't have the option to use it.
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Wil
Well I think Continuum hit the nail on the head, as a musician it is the latency that kills the final part of virtualized Logic Pro being useful at all.
I am a windows convert as they say and there's no doubt in my mind that buying a mac was a really good investment.
Cubase and friends have never floated my boat and while LADSPA/jackd in linux is great, it asks for more tweaking as I like in my free time (UbuntuStudio was nice though) keeping me from actually using the software. With Garageband I never had that problem and just started using the software.
With the option to run Windows in a boot camp partition and nowadays running in Fusion, you can basically have it all.
There is DirectX support now in the new Fusion 2.0 and there are people reporting that they can play windows games. But not all of them as not all shader models are supported.
Fusion is only 70 bucks or something so isn't that expensive for what you get back (you can virtualize that same boot camp partition and use it virtualized as well)
I don't know if those games have osx native binaries.
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Wil