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[gipsiad]

Looking at the software on this site and others I don't understand the problems with shareware or freeware, I don't understand what a commercial free update is, if you where to download the demo and the commercial update would that then mean you would have a compete program? The only thing I do understand is demo.
But what I want to know is why there isn't much in the way of freeware or shareware for the MAC like there is for the PC.
At the end of the day some people use these programs to make money and that is there livelihood and for others like me who will never be good enough to be a professional it's just fun and a good pastime as a hobby.
But being in the latter section means that spending $1000 for logic pro is out of the question I would never be able to save up that amount of money and by the time I did the next version of the software would be out and 7 would be outdated form 8, if you understand my point is.
For people who are not in the music industry but want to maybe play with music software how a kid would play with computer games, the price is too much.
This is why I am looking for free or shareware, I don't agree nor do I want cracked software doesn’t do anyone any favours.
But why can't for all the people who just using the MAC and there setup for bedroom mix's be able to share software with each other and if so where can one find such a site?

[Jim Hoyland]

As long as you have the correct drivers there's no reason why you should need 2 lots of gear to run PC / Mac. We run 8 Digi002 Rack based studios using G5's, but when students want to use their PC laptops (as long as they have firewire) we just load up the PC version and off they go.

Atari was ace and the midi timing is still pretty much unbeaten although since Core Audio and Midi Mac OS has been tightened up no end.

I'm just about to set up a bunch of iMac G5's with Boot Camp to run both Windows and Mac music software for a new course - am a bit worried about the current driver set not allowing audio routing etc but if it all works okay it should be pretty interesting n'est pas?

BTW, I use my home Mac for music, FCP and the internet. I know its the constant bleat of Mac users, but there are currently no viruses that target OSX.