Zetabyte

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About Zetabyte

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    Thumb Tourist

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    http://www.growing-up-geek.com

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  • Biography
    Co-host of Growing Up Geek podcast
  • Location
    Philadelphia
  • Interests
    Music, Games, Music for games
  • Occupation
    Accountant
  • Favorite Games
    Tex Murphy series, Fallout, Mass Effect, Rockband 2
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  2. HEY! My account works again!!! I'm here by the recommendation of the Thumbs! Hello!
  3. Post your face!

    Thanks for the bonus red-eye point. I ended up telling Chris that it was probably from me trying to hold back from laughing about Big Dog at my quiet office job. Regardless, I looked like I had been infected with "rage".
  4. Post your face!

    I'm the guy on the right. I think I was saying "Should I pose like I was caught mid-sentence talking about the Wizard Puffin?" I think that's a lot of points, too. I got Wizards. I got Puffins. I got Boost. Who could ask for anything more?
  5. Making Music

    This is true. ASIO is a great option, especially if you have a desktop unit. My problems with it came mostly from manually configuring everything to work with ASIO when it isn't your default audio driver. Often times my programs, and especially my plug-ins, would have to be reassigned each time I restarted them. Also its rare to find any laptops that have good built in audio, and I got sick of toting an external unit around. At the end of the day, where there's a will there's a way. Some of the biggest artist in electronic music still use equipment from the 80's and 90's because they took the time with it to learn how to get what they want out of it. Find something you like and then stick with it!
  6. Making Music

    If you're serious about making music it pays to get a second dedicated machine, and the best machine for music is a Mac. I fought an uphill battle for years trying to get great music from a PC. I tried SoundForge, CakeWalk, Cubase, FruityLoops, Finale, and finally Sibellius 5. While they were good, they all had hiccups and layers upon layers of problem in making them interact with eachother (especially when it came to using VSTs). Finally I plopped down the money for a MacBook Pro and Logic Studio 8 and haven't looked back since. It really isn't a simplest and way to go. There is a technical reason why Macs are better for music, not just some abstract artsy elite-ism crap. OSX's "Core" audio drivers are designed from the ground up for latency free music playback. That means the moment you hit a key sound comes out! Sounds simple enough, but DirectSound and MMS aren't built for that kind of thing. With Vista, MS introduced WaveRT to try and compete, but it will be a long time until that standard is supported (if ever). You don't have to go with Logic 8 like I did. There are a lot of great music programs available for Mac, and many PC programs have Unicode standards, so they'll work on Mac as well. In fact, Mac also support Open Source Linux music programs which are typically free. So any way you want to go, you're covered. Of course you should keep a PC around for games, but music is still best on Macs. PS. (sorry for the lengthy post)