#MAKE PC FROM MAC PRO 5.1 PC#
Prior to getting my first iMac, I'm not sure that I would have ever thought about using anything other than a "pro" Macintosh, once I'd converted from a PC (due to Apple buying out Emagic/Logic). When I read the OP's question, it kind of set of more questions in my head, as I guess from my own experience, the individual demands and circumstances really dictate which computer to go for, I guess.
#MAKE PC FROM MAC PRO 5.1 PRO#
Since 2002 I've worked my way through a Power Mac, a Mac Pro and am now on my second iMac. Up until 2010, I'd always gone with either Power PC Power Macs, or Mac Pro. I had the same dilemma a few weeks ago when trying to fathom whether a Mac Pro or an iMac was best for my needs. Thanks for posting up an interesting question, the discussion is eye-opening. "Jump in," write-off the entire purchase price of the equipment as a "Section 179" deduction (in the USA), treat the whole thing as "no more than 'a three-year asset'" (even if you own it for longer), and start making music with the thing. IMHO, questions about "how many cores, etc." only remain relevant when the computational work that you are doing absolutely must be done "simultaneously, in real time." Even though your project consists of "50 or 60 tracks," well, "first of all, you may be very pleasantly surprised." 8) And if not, there are plenty of things that you can do about it. ) technically advanced enough that "multiple independent drives" can easily be attached, such that all of them can be working at the same time. The Macintosh system is (and always has been. they're about a hundred bucks give-or-take apiece." Don't ask one disk-drive to do everything, just because it happens to be located inside the case of the machine. "jump in and get to work." The water's fine, no matter what you do.Īnd, I would plan on purchasing an external (e.g. I'll take the many hundreds of dollars that I just saved and spend it on new toys! They are not "brand new," but, let's face it, there's no longer that much difference from one model-year to the next. This is how Apple disposes of the "demonstrator" equipment that was used in their retail stores – after refurbishing them, and with an identical warranty. I've bought almost all of my Apple equipment in the "used equipment" section of the on-line store. Don't ask the computer to "do it all in real time" when you don't actually have to. The auditory effect is the same, but the computational burden is vastly reduced. Logic makes it very easy to "bounce" a substitute for a track or group of tracks.
#MAKE PC FROM MAC PRO 5.1 PATCH#
Each patch is designed to sound good by itself.
(Logic does this so that you/it can easily remove a patch.) You might find that by "re-cabling things a bit," you substantially reduce the CPU burden, as well as make the finished sound more believable. Each patch might have added many new strips, busses to connect the strips, etc., such that they are now redundant.
(Think: "seven Ferrari's stuck behind a school bus.")
and the CPU(s) can be stuck "wasting hundreds of thousands of nanoseconds," literally spinning their wheels uselessly. This is because, the moment the computer starts running low on this resource, it must resort to using the disk drive.
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