Boring!
I’ve just completed the two most mind-numbingly boring days of reinstalling a new studio computer. And I’m not even finished yet!
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m super excited about my lovely shiny(matte) Mac Pro. With it’s lovely 8 core processor and more RAM than I need. But my god it’s been a trial. Lost serial numbers, mislaid installer CD’s, intaller patches, plugin wrappers, Logic validation issues and tranferring and testing 700 gigs of sample library has left me feeling a bit brain dead! I must of put my administrator password in about 200 times too!
I’ve acquired a lot of software since i got my old G5 about 5 years ago so I knew this wasn’t going to be easy. My much hammered Power Mac ended up with about 25meg of free hard disk and i thought it might be a good idea to upgrade. Also software has become more and more processor intensive and the old PPC 1.8 dual chip just wasn’t happy any more. I’d made a conscious decision to wait this time for things to get ironed out as it took a good year of problems going to OSX Tiger. But it seems I was wrong. Fantastic though the Intel chip is it’s been problematic getting some things to work, still!
Spectrasonics Trilogy for example now has to be wrapped and lauched outside of Logic! Amplitube (which i use all the time) just won’t pass Logic’s peculiar AU validater, even though the same version works perfectly on my Intel Macbook Pro.
I have to say Native Instruments were brilliant. I phoned to say I’d lost my Reaktor 5 installation CD. Within 1 minute of varifying my details a link appeared in my mail box to a download link for the installer CD. Can’t live without Reaktor! I love NI!
The thing I’ve been most impressed by is Toontracks DFH Superior 2. I’ve always used Toontracks stuff for drums but this is totally awesome. Those room mics sound killer. If your going to buy a software drum program you’ve got to consider this the only choice! Sounds like i work for them!
So with only a few more things to go hopefully tomorrow I can set about actually doing some music!
……and finish this website!