Re: OT Apple Mac

On Aug 27, 8:06 am, tom walls <t...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <timmcn-143EFC.21072626082...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tim...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...



OK, so it happens even when you're not doing MIDI stuff, but you're not
getting kernel panics. Which version of OS X are you using? How much
RAM? Does it resolve after a while, or do you have to quit and reboot?

I'm using 10.3 something. I increased the RAM last year to a healthy
amount, but being that I'm at work on my Dell now, I can't tell you
precisely what. No resolution. Totally hung up. Have to reboot. If this
hadn't happened to me hundreds of times on numerous macs (and IBM-
clones, to be fair) I'd be concerned.

I dunno if you really want to pursue this. You could launch Console (in
the Utilities folder) and check the system.log and console.log for error
messages.

I'm not savvy enough to comprehend the error messages. Too esoteric for
me.

I'm using a G3 iBook with non-GM compliant midi peripherals. It's
kind of like when I was playing jazz on '74 Martin D35 with a piezo
running through a Whammy pedal. I'm going to upgrade in the next year
or two. Maybe then I'll have the mac of my dreams(yeah, right...).
But thanks for your advice! Seriously.

OK, that guitar set up is really quite the mental image. :-D How'd it
sound?

Great. I really like the sound of a full-bodied acoustic guitar with
effects. Even wah-wah. I have one of the old Gallien-Kruger acoustic
guitar amps that are very versatile -- that is, for acoustic, they're
quite worthless for anything else -- and even digital effects sound
great through it. I'm not much for effects on electric guitars. Straight
into the amp.

--
Tom Walls
the guy at the Temple of Zeus

I hate to get into the silly "my machine is better debates." But for
what it's worth, I've been running OSX for as long as it's been out,
and it's been amazingly stable for me. Sometimes a program will crash
or freeze, but it almost never brings the system down--I think I can
count the number of times I've had to reboot the machine because of a
crash on one hand, with fingers to spare. I've been amazed at how
stable it is. I run Final CutPro, Photoshop, and LogicPro all the
time. I use a firewire interface with Logic and a midi keyboard with
zero problems.

Apple annoys me with its "cooler than thou" ads and smugness, and
Jobs, with his relentless design ethic kind of creeps me out. But the
hardware software integration has been amazingly good for me

.

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