i have what may be a very daft question on my vst host / instrument software
I'm wanting to buy a power book for mobile music making -
I have a great deal of software which on the boxes shows both mac and pc symbols - but when I browse the dics cannot see anything other than pc files
my software is halion, cubase sl3, abysnth 2, reaktor 3 (plus 4 upgrade), d'cota and waldorf edition
my question is that my tower daw is a pc - but I'm guessing that my discs are installation for both platorms - is this the case or would i need to get mac software versions for the power book?
cheers
cross platform installation discs
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35482 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
The disks might (probably will?) be in a hybrid format, ie part-Mac, part-PC (although the Mac will prolly read the PC bit as well). So it could be that if you put the disk in your PB you'll see the Mac installer no problem.
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35482 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Oh, just while Im thinking about it, the one issue might be licenses; dunno how many of those licenses are usable on multiple platforms at once...
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 37 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from London, UK
yeah dunno - cubae is dongle so you can run it anywhere it runs but just one machine at a time - the ni instruments are limited to 2 concurrent machines so would need to free up my current laptop registrations but thats cool as would use the power book instead my cheap acer windows laptop .. so i think i'm good
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- KVRAF
- 2830 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from The only civilized county in Texas
Actually, those discs probably have two separate file systems on them, so a Mac sees only the Mac half of the CD.whyterabbyt wrote:The disks might (probably will?) be in a hybrid format, ie part-Mac, part-PC (although the Mac will prolly read the PC bit as well).
Not sure how they solve the problem of data files which are cross-platform.
V.
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35482 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
TennesseeVic; Macs have been able to read ISO9660 CD's (with or without Joliet filenaming) so they'll read the PC filesystem as well without problem.
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 37 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from London, UK
sweet - posting from my new 15" power book - super drive etc - everything is installing fine - though the cubase dongle is a bit of an arse as the ports are mouted on the sides - still sexy bit of kit - going to give it all a whirl in a while