I admit it: running two or more operating systems at the same time seems kind of strange at first. Otherwise - good luck with the mac, though TBH - its an odd way round to do it - most folks do the windows desktop and mac laptop simply because the mac laptops are very good stable audio machines, whereas many pc laptop are a pain in the ass, but in the desktop world you can get a relatively cheap ultrafast machine - even if the mac desktops are nice little machines, they still cant match a good PC desktop for raw performance and PC desktop stability for audio is pretty decent - still find mac slightly better for Live.This post is part of a series to assist new users with OS virtualization on Parallels Desktop. Not had problems unfreezing tracks on OSX where the track was frozen on windows so long as plugins match etc. ) Audio realism and Mixed in Key are the two culprit for this evil practice so far. Goes without saying - just use the plugins available on both - most companies are very decent and have license policies that allow for the same license to be used for both windwos and osx version, however some companies are on my utterly hated list for being greedy assholes and requiring a separate license for an OSX version (to which they got told to fuck off - and I suggest everyone does the same - 'fuck off you greedy bastards yr shit aint that hot' should help get the message home. If your never going back to windows - then it doesnt matter - ie have both AU and VST enabled - there was some logic behind this at the time (think it was related to using kore to move AU racks to Logic), but wish I hadnt.Ĥ. This will save you from geting pissed off when you try to move a project to windows onl to find it cant load any plugins. On OSX - only enable VST plugins - dont enable AU.

(I really hope they sort this out in Live 9 as its really poor).Ģ. Allways use collect all and save before you move - else extenally referenced samples will not be found and you have to wait for an eternity for the horrible slow sample finder to locate stuff again if you have a large sample library with 10s of 000s of files in it.

As someone said above - it should work fine however some things to consider to make it painless on going especially if you want to move project back and forth between the platforms:ġ.

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