Upgrade of Power Mac G4 - Sawtooth (Dual 500 MHz)???

[AlexHall74]

Khazul wrote:
Theres some gear I have that aint old, but Im having to think in terms of dumping it on ebay before its too late. If it wasnt computer intergrated, I might be intending to keep it for years yet...

At least the TI is still a great hardware synth and will remain very useful long after driver support stops in x years.

Yup. Once USB, USB 2, Firewire, etc. go the way of the Dodo, devices with such connectivity will be limited to audio output only.

Maybe one of the ports mentioned above will become some kind of defacto standard for backward compatibility on non computing devices (synths, TVs, stereos, etc), kind of like serial/parallel ports are now.

Every computer seems to have a serial and parallel port, but they are not nearly as used as USB/firewire now-a-days it seems.

I guess that is also an advantage of soft synths. They will forever play exactly the same as long as there is an OS and machine (or an app on a new machine/non-supported OS that emulates the soft synths required environment, kind of like Mac can run Virtual PC). Their knobs never break, the have no LEDs to go bad, but boy oh boy do their filters suck.