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![]() ![]() I'm pretty pissed off with Apple - not because I use my MB for recording/production - but sometimes I like to connect it to an external drive for editing sessions - or heck, just backing up data. Plus, no firewire - big NO for musicians. lol)ĭon't go with an MB - I guarantee someday, you will buy some virtual instrument. For intensive stuff, I use my mac pro with a 15k Seagate Cheetah SAS drive - I've gone up to 256 tracks+plug-ins+virtual instruments - and it worked smooth (trying to mix with all those faders is another issue. So if you are going to do a lot of tracks. you will start seeing performance hits on an MBP with 4 GB Ram. If you're using Atmosphere, Stylus, and one more VI and Reason. The MBP will work great with Logic Studio - the main factor regarding performance these days is not the number of tracks or plug-ins - it's virtual instruments. I hope that this has been food for thought. I have been advised here that the increase in quality provided by the latter is hard to differentiate in all but the most discriminating listening environments, and that the extra load imposed on a computer system by setting a sample rate of 192 can cause problems. There are quite a few other firewire based audio interfaces with fewer inputs than the fireface 400, but from my research it seems that the firefaces are among the few that function equally well with Macs and PC's (quite often it seems that some function well with PC's and others with Macs).Īs you're probably aware, some of the interfaces have a maximum sampling rate of 96Khz and others have a 192Khz maximum. (If you look for this on the RME homepage, you have to search a bit as it's not listed in the main products, although the Fireface 800 is listed). I think that I'm going to go with the RME Fireface 400, which is a firewire 400 audio interface with (according to the reviews) very good preamps. However, I have decided to go with Logic Studio, and I have added 4GB's of RAM (making a total of 5) to the Mac Pro, and have bought the first of two or three 1TB hard drives to store and edit audio and video. I read this forum a lot - for a couple of years at least - before taking the plunge, and I seriously toyed with installing bootcamp so that I could use Sonar (which is a PC only sequencer). I, too, am new to macs, having recently purchased a mac pro (not macbook pro), expressly for the purpose of recording audio (with Logic Studio), and editing video.
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