Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 05:09 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > As far as I know, the law suit was specifically about DVD playback No. The lawsuit is about the definition of "fully supported." Apple claimed that OS X was fully supported on many machines (including yours), and in the view

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.07.2002 18:30 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > Here is the story as reported at MacCentral: > > "The law firm of King & Ferlauto has filed a class action lawsuit > against Apple in Superior Court for the State of California for the > County of Los Angeles. The firm alleges that Apple has vio

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 02:35 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 03.07.2002 1:13 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > >> I think "nonsense" is perhaps a little strong, Johannes, considering >> the >> gist of my post was right. > > Perhaps nonsense is strong (my anger is directed at Apple, not at

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-03 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 10:00 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> I have read some of the Jaguar details. You will have to have >> some minimum card (nVidia: GeForce2MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 Ti, >> GeForce4 or GeForce4MX. ATI: any AGP Radeon card. 32MB VRAM >> recommended for optimum performan

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.07.2002 1:13 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > I think "nonsense" is perhaps a little strong, Johannes, considering the > gist of my post was right. Perhaps nonsense is strong (my anger is directed at Apple, not at you), but the gist of your post is still not right. Even though there apparent

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
A sneak peek at the "Audio MIDI Setup" utility for OS X 10.2: It makes sense that Apple would want to ensure that at least one digital audio app is taking full advantage of OS X and isn't hobbled by having to ma

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
Some perspective: > Mac-based products account for over 65 percent of Emagic's current > revenues. From: - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 06:34 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 02.07.2002 19:00 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > >> You are confusing two different issues. The original issue of OS X did >> not support Quartz graphic acceleration for *any* video card, but it >> did >> support hardware-acce

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.07.2002 19:00 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > You are confusing two different issues. The original issue of OS X did > not support Quartz graphic acceleration for *any* video card, but it did > support hardware-accelerated QuickTime playback and OpenGL for most > video cards. However, ther

RE: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Julian Besset
Strewth ! I had stopped at Logic 4.6 and was considering upgrading to 5.1. What luck I didn't !! It will have to be Sonar from now on... There's not the remotest chance I'll be changing platforms on account of this foolish shrinking. Incidentally the firm Magix seems to be an offshoot of emagic/lo

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Jari Williamsson
Philip Aker writes: > There are some other things > like toolbars but I certainly hope Finale Macintosh doesn't go > for the implementation the Windows version has--I find the > floating palettes method much more flexible (even though I don't > use them that much). I never did see the point o

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:57 PM 7/2/02 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: >even if it does >alienate Logic for Windows users. Alienate is not the right word. A friend of mine has several years of professional work and applications wrapped up in Logic. She was beside herself today, knowing she'd have to migrate her wo

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Castine
>Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:33:59 +1000 >From: David Stonestreet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html#069 > >Now if they bought Coda we might get an OS-X version of Finale ;) > >Sad for PC users though. Ah. How about ? Or, since we're b

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:41 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > Perhaps they realize they are losing a vast segment of the music > industry to PCs and hope that this will force loyal Emagic users to > change platforms. Apple has not always been know for making smart > business decisions, no

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread David H. Bailey
Philip Aker wrote: > On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Colin Broom wrote: > >> From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>> I am not altogether very happy about the news, and if I were a PC >>> user now being told that from September on all PC products will be >>> dropped (an

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 12:14 PM, Philip Aker wrote: > On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:42 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > >>> OTOH, Apple has been very good about accommodating older CDRW drives >>> (albeit slow). > >> Yes, but as far as the Powerbook G3 series goes, they sold OS X as >> b

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Colin Broom wrote: > From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I am not altogether very happy about the news, and if I were a >> PC user now being told that from September on all PC products >> will be dropped (announcement on the emagic site) I wo

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:42 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >> OTOH, Apple has been very good about accommodating older CDRW >> drives (albeit slow). > Yes, but as far as the Powerbook G3 series goes, they sold OS X > as being fully compatible with these, but didn't tell us that > the Gra

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.07.2002 10:19 Uhr, Philip Aker wrote >> Or you might not get one, if Apple decides it wants to sell you >> something new. > > > OTOH, Apple has been very good about accommodating older CDRW > drives (albeit slow). Yes, but as far as the Powerbook G3 series goes, they sold OS X as being f

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Colin Broom
- Original Message - From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am not altogether very happy about the news, and if I were a PC user now > being told that from September on all PC products will be dropped > (announcement on the emagic site) I would be more than pissed off. Yes, I

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 12:33 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Or you might not get one, if Apple decides it wants to sell you > something new. OTOH, Apple has been very good about accommodating older CDRW drives (albeit slow). Hoping there will be some positive spinoffs for Midi as well.

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.07.2002 8:55 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > > On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:33 AM, David Stonestreet wrote: > >> http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html#069 >> >> Now if they bought Coda we might get an OS-X version of Finale ;) >> >> Sad for PC users though. > > Yes, but now I

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:33 AM, David Stonestreet wrote: > http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html#069 > > Now if they bought Coda we might get an OS-X version of Finale ;) > > Sad for PC users though. Yes, but now I might finally get an OS X driver for my Audiowerk2! - Darcy ---

[Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-01 Thread David Stonestreet
http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html#069 Now if they bought Coda we might get an OS-X version of Finale ;) Sad for PC users though. -- David Stonestreet - Coming to you from Sydney Australia. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a