question, geekhearts

[emilystrange]

mr s is thinking about getting a mac - but he wants to know what music software is good to run on it before he does anything. i can haz help?

[Pista]

When you say music software, do you mean player, editor or something else?

[Pista]

iTunes really is pretty terrible (it's a necessary evil if you have an iPod though).

Not if you Rock Box it

[nowayjose]

On the other hand, if you mean for managing mp3s and the like, iTunes really is pretty terrible (it's a necessary evil if you have an iPod though).

I use vlc for playing stuff on OSX (and on Linux, too). ITunes is indeed terrible and also won't play, for example, ogg vorbis and flac.

[emilystrange]

cheers.. yeah, sorry. more of a cubase thing.

[Jeremiah]

Logic is pretty good considering all the features it has at the current price. However, I can't help feeling that development has largely stagnated (there hasn't been a significant update since mid 2009) and it's rapidly being left behind by its competitors.

There's also Cockos Reaper which is cheap, cross-platform and seems to be pretty good, though I haven't tried it myself.

[Izzy HaveMercy]

Cubase runs smooth as silk here too, on the iMac as well as the Macbook.

You even have an iPad version now (Cubasis), which works seamlessly together with its Big Brother

IZ.

[emilystrange]

i will pass all this info on! thanks, all xxx