New Mac User! Osx Or Os9?, is there enough software on osX? Options

[r0cker]

hello, thanks for checking my message.

i will be getting my new powerbook next week and am not sure whether to run osX or os9 as i don't know if there are sufficient programs, virtual instruments and plugins available yet on the osX platform.

i currently run cubase 5 but plan to change to logic eventually though i will initially be using both on the mac until i complete the tracks half done in cubase!

If anyone could advise me whether its worth running osX now that would be great as it would save me a lot of trouble of buying and installing loads of programs (if they exist!) and finding that there are essential things i cannot use. i plan to use the two sequencers mentioned as well as lots of softsynths and effects.

any help is much appreciated.
thanks in advance,
r0cker

[ryosode]

I am not sure what is that you can not do with Live, Reason, and Logic in OS X. There are some short comings such as the performance issue (but the system is very stable), some incompatibility with third party hardware, oh yeah lack of SoundDiver support actually hurts too.

I guess it depends on what you do with computer. If you have an old MIDI hardware that is not supported under OS X yet, of course you'll be using OS 9. If you have a lot of SysEx compatible MIDI hardware (Line6 PODs, Korg Triton, etc) of course you want to use OS 9. On the contrary, if you don't do any of those "OS 9 only" things and plan on getting latest audio hardware, OS X will probably be okay.