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Mixing 16 and 24bit files? [message #62318]

Tue, 03 January 2006 20:07

JD
Messages: 15
Registered: July 2005

Junior Member

ed to earlier, they could
knock down the learning curve a bit with some thoughtful design
decisions to get some functions out of the environment window, and they
could improve the visual feedback and layo

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Re: Mixing 16 and 24bit files? [message #62330 is a reply to message #62318]

Tue, 03 January 2006 22:45

Kim
Messages: 1246
Registered: October 2005

Senior Member

n a dual G5 (2.5) and
with all the new add-ons, it just seems to get clunkier and clunkier.

Apple is moving to the Intel processor to put some much needed juice behind
their DAW. That's cool, except they apple have really let down a lot of users
who were conviced that their (our) G5 were the king of the hill.. You would
not believe how many friends of mine who jumped on the Dual G5 and upgraded
Logic as well, figuring that "finaly" we can really see this app(Logic) burn
rubber..Well, we were all fooled.. Even more, it seem that certain version
of OSX slowed not only Logic down, but other apps as well. sadly, today most
of htose users now run PT on their G5's.

If you check most online forums, you'd noyice thatthe most requested upgrade
users want from

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Re: Mixing 16 and 24bit files? [message #62370 is a reply to message #62330]

Wed, 04 January 2006 08:54

Tony Benson

Messages: 453
Registered: June 2006

Senior Member

ons that were never vectorized. I weep for them, those sad
>little calculations so ill treated by the generic floating point units on
>the PPC chips. The never had a chance! sob sob . . .
>
>TCB
>
>"LaMont" <jjdpro@ameritech.net> wrote:
>>
>>Hi James..
>>You wrote: "Altivec is a definite factor
>>in how a G4 and G5 perform. I think that is why they went with dual core
>>Intel chips, to make up some of the performance loss".
>>
>>I have to disagree here. There were only a hand full of vendors that were
>>actually taking advantage of the Altivec engine(Audio ease-Altiverb), and
>>Adobe PhotoShop. A lot of third party developers did not jump onthe Altivec
>>wagon. Even our Edmund Parelli, stated that "recoding an App to use the
>velocity
>>engine was a major task that many , including himself was not willing to
>>do"..
>>
>>So, where di that leave Appple?? Well, if left them with having to "fabricate"
>>speed test and other outlandish performance statments. All while, trying
>>to convince IMB to make a better faster PPC CPU. Well, as you know, a year
>>pasted on the Dual G5, which was still using 7 year cpu technology, Apple
>>was was lsoing badly in t

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