Examples would be Sonic Foundry / Sony Acid Pro 6 and Sonic Foundry / Sony SoundForge 8, both of which only run on Windows, along with GigaStudio and Virtual Guitarist.Īs Joe puts it, "But tons of my project stuff was still in Acid-format and on the PC, not mention literally tens of thousands of samples and loops I needed access to that I didn’t want to waste time converting over for user with Mac tools." VMware Fusion Makes Sweet, Sweet Music on the Mac
The challenge was, there are quite a few industry-standard music production applications that are Windows only.
Joe had initially bought a MacBook for other reasons, but after some instability on his PC, put Pro Tools onto his Mac, where it behaved better. Joe’s Challenge: Make that Mac Make Music Recently, when he had the chance to record a local singer in Colorado (where eBags is based) and he was having issues with Firewire under his PC, Joe decided that he would make the switch to Mac.
ACID PRO 8 RETAIL PROFESSIONAL
Before he was a big time technology exec for a leading e-tailer, Joe was a professional musician, playing in bands, running a recording studio, and promoting bands back in the 90s. Take for example, Joe Devine, whose day job is CTO at, one of the biggest online retailers of bags and accessories.īut at home, Joe’s all about his music. The breadth of Windows applications that people use VMware Fusion to run on their Mac never ceases to amaze.
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