Gaming Computer vs Mac

[rashidaressy]

Build PC gaming instead MAC please!!!

[Pictus]

thanks Pictus. i was wondering about liquid metal?

I do not recommend because:

- Liquid metal destroy aluminum like acid.
- It is conductive
- It also react with copper and need some tricks
https://www.overclock.net/threads/pre-t ... m.1800478/

PCM is the way!

https://youtu.be/cQaqUyKVIEE

[CrystalWizard]

thanks Pictus. i was wondering about liquid metal?

I do not recommend because:

- Liquid metal destroy aluminum like acid.
- It is conductive
- It also react with copper and need some tricks
https://www.overclock.net/threads/pre-t ... m.1800478/

PCM is the way!

https://youtu.be/cQaqUyKVIEE

Great, thanks.

[soulata]

I imagine there is some kind of optimization for digital audio production... how does that work ?

- Install the latest Visual C++ 2022 Redistributable
https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist/releases

What happens to the various C++ redist installs that seem to get installed with every other plugin?

Thanks for the tips, Pictus.

[Pictus]

You're welcome, usually nothing bad happens...

[chk071]

What happens to the various C++ redist installs that seem to get installed with every other plugin?

Nothing. They happily reside next to each other. And, they even have to, because different software require different C++ redistributable versions.

[zerocrossing]

Gaming computers are noisy. Macs are not.

You make your own noise by loudly complaining that the latest OS update has broken all your plugins.

I used to have a G5 that I called "the Blow Dryer," as it's fans were so insanely loud. No idea what a Mac Pro sounds like. I'm not silly enough to drop $7K to find out. No other Apple computer is interesting to me, because without a PCIe slot, I've got no use for them.

[chk071]

Well, since Apple switched to mobile CPU's, they're probably more silent now.

[JerGoertz]

I'm on Win 11, and am not 100% sure I only installed my AMD Radeon's driver and not the bloatware. If the "Apps > Installed apps" has "AMD Software" as 89.8 MB, and I don't see any Radeon bullshit in my system tray, does that mean it's just the bare-bones drivers and no bloatware?

[soulata]

Switched to Mac Studio after 30 years of Windows. It's nice and works well. Too expensive for what it is but I'm quite satisfied with it so far.

I went for 1tb/64gb setup but really did it because my 7 year old PC started to act up and I didn't want to even think about processors, cooling...

But I could def build more powerful machine for less money if I went the PC route again.

[BONES]

Definitely not. As I told you already, if you listen to skrillex for example, it is not at all the same kind of sound and complexity than pop or rap or EBM.

So what? You still make it the same way - synths, samples and effects. You might use different synths, samples and effects but you do it all pretty much the same way in the end - a bunch of tracks running through a mixer into a master output channel.

For example, in pop, you use sidechain effects only when you are mixing, to unmask a voice, subtle compression or whatever equivalent.
In some modern genre, you can have 5 side chaining on a sound, for example to trigger a ring modulation when the snare kick in.... or create a resonnant filter or whatever other stuff you can imagine.

You can but you don't have to. It's a choice you make. I can't think of the last time I side-chained anything, beyond using reverbs and delays with built-in sidechaining. It's not something I ever need, although I'm sure there are plenty of people working in our genre who use it all the time, just as I am sure there are people making pop who use it on everything and people working in those "modern genres" who never use it at all.

Funny I was having the Surface Pro 4 and didn't had temperature issue.
Then maybe it is only gaming laptop....

You were probably only using it for music, I use my computers for far more intensive work.

[seafire]

Switched to Mac Studio after 30 years of Windows.

Any particular reason?

[soulata]

Switched to Mac Studio after 30 years of Windows.

Any particular reason?

My PC died. Didn't want to think about processors, cooling...

But no, not really. Just wanted to try if the grass is really greener on the other side

So far I've only done one simple project on it (recording some stuff for an interactive museum show). I don't like it any more or less than my previous machine.

But it works fine, looks lively, takes less space (mac studio).

The change also got me to think what plugins I really need and use. I was a hoarder, sold quite a few after the change.

But I'm not kidding myself, hoarding might come in vogue again

[JerGoertz]

I'm on Win 11, and am not 100% sure I only installed my AMD Radeon's driver and not the bloatware. If the "Apps > Installed apps" has "AMD Software" as 89.8 MB, and I don't see any Radeon bullshit in my system tray, does that mean it's just the bare-bones drivers and no bloatware?

Anyone?

[Pictus]

I'm on Win 11, and am not 100% sure I only installed my AMD Radeon's driver and not the bloatware. If the "Apps > Installed apps" has "AMD Software" as 89.8 MB, and I don't see any Radeon bullshit in my system tray, does that mean it's just the bare-bones drivers and no bloatware?

Anyone?

Look at the Task Manager and see what it is running in the background.
If you want to install and have ZERO bloatware, check
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