Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 1997/11

From: SEAN TALBOT <talbotse12@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: MIDI - BUY A MACINTOSH!!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:16:10 -0500

One asked about why 90% of the worlds digital compositions are created
on Macs. I posed this question to a MIDI wiz that I know and he told me that
when the concept of MIDI came out that it just worked better on Macs at that
time. PCs tended to have a computer equiv ov a brain fart when it came to MIDI.
The Apple strategy of giving major discouts to schools for putting Macs in the
classroom has paid off some and now High School MIDI labs can afford to put in
Macs. Therefore students are learning Mac based sequencer programs in
high school and in college. The MIDI techniques class here at this school
uses a Mac. The fact of the matter is that PCs are catching up on the MIDI
side of things and depending what sound card you have.......MIDI is very
possible on PCs. I'm sitting in front of a MIDI setup running off of a PC right
now in my dorm room, so I can contest that it does work. For the average Joe
on the street, either is a good. If you are like me and wants to bypass the
big operating system and just use simple DOS on occasion....the closed system of
the Mac is a pain.
In short, 90% of the compositions are done on MAC because it used to
be that MIDI worked better on Mac and that is what the MIDI gurus got. Now that
the PC market has improved their technology, this will start to even out more
and more as time progesses.

Sean Talbot
Music Education Major
Universtiy of Wisconsin - Whitewater
talbotse12@-----.edu
http://www.geocities.com/vienna/strasse/2859