Anybody using the StudioPro 3 monitors?

I am not sure it'd help with tuning your room and monitors, but there's an app I have been reading about called Har_Bal that will analyze your mix and tell you what frequencies are needed to tweak to get a good sound. You can even use a commercial CD you like as a reference with it! Unfortunately, there is not yet a Mac version. But if enough folks google it, read about it, and write to them requesting a Mac version, maybe they'd get one out quicker. I have heard a lot of guys in the VoxTalks forum talking this app up in a major way.

"if enough folks google it, read about it, and write to them requesting a Mac version, maybe they'd get one out quicker."
That program is not a new program and they are already working on a Mac version, I just hope it's a Universal version and not just PPC. It's supposed be out the 1st quarter of this year ( their announcement was made last year). However at $100.00 it is a bit pricey for most people. Below is the companies official announcement:

We are acutely aware that there is a large Mac user base out there that would appreciate our product and we will be addressing this issue. It is simply a matter of time. Since we are a small organization we only have limited resources and this is the main cause for delay.

However, we can tell you that we are scheduled to begin work on a Mac port in the 1st quarter of next year.

If you are in desperate need of the product now all we can suggest is purchasing a PC version and running it on a second hand PC. It will run fine on a 500MHz machine. It "doesn't" run under PC emulation on a Mac. If you do go down this route you will "NOT" have to purchase another license to run on a Mac when the Mac version becomes available because our licensing policy is that a Har-Bal license is good for all supported platforms.

Earle and Paavo
Har-Bal International

Yes, I know. I wrote to them and their response was:

Sorry for the Mac delays. Life is very busy these days so I haven't had much time for "any" software development. However, I'm starting to think I need to do a major re-structuring of Har-Bal to support all I have in mind for the future. That ties in well with making it Mac compatible. We've been dragging the chain a bit on the Mac port because of the need for a new feature release but now that we need a sizeable restructuring I can resurrect the Mac port. I'll let you know when a Mac version is available.

So it seems we'll have to wait. A lot of folks I have read about say this is one cool app, and if it does what they say, for me, $100 isn't bad at all.

You can run Windows on the new Intel macs under Bootcamp. Har-Bal will run this way since it isn't virtualization, it's an actual OS. If you use an external hard drive or a 3rd partition (2nd one for windows) you can swap audio files back and forth that way.

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Well, I won't be able to afford a new machine for quite awhile. I usually buy last year's model at best, anyway LOL

LOL!!

just don't use it with the internet.....

But it is still Windoze...

"the great joy [snicker, snicker] of using the Windows operating system."

God I wish we could run OS X on our PC's. Now THAT would be something to write home about!

but wouldn't that be the beginning of the end?

You bet! And that's exactly what we're looking forward to... the end of ever having to use XP Pro again.

Friends don't let friends use XP Pro 🙂

Pardon the analogy but how can I say this nicely... that's like saying that instead of them using cr@p that they're using diarrhea 😝

Can you tell how much I love OS X? 🙂

Actually the more I think about it, the more spot on that analogy is 😝

"Worry free operation (mail without spam, internet without spyware, viruses)"

I think those days may be gone with the new Intel Macs 😟

As far as I can see, viruses exploit the OS and not the processor ...