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quite the deal.īut if not, grab one of the current MMs.
#IMAC VS MAC MINI FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION REVIEWS MAC#
Hence my comment about the 2011 Mac Mini Servers on sale at Apple's refurb store (if you are in the US that is) because for about $700 you get an i7 Quad Core and two built in 500GB 7200 rpm HDs. so given you will be doing a lot of work using large orchestral libraries, I wouldn't recommend them. The 5400 rpm drives are typically too slow for most audio/sample streaming work. and utilize VEP5 to run them as load sharing 'slaves' with LPX) finally adding a couple of Ext 7200 rpm FW800 HDs for extra Sample storage and audio streaming.įor the cost, these 2011 MMSs are a real bargain imho. and upgraded the RAM myself via Amazon to 16GB for only $90 each.
#IMAC VS MAC MINI FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION REVIEWS SERIAL#
This is why I ended up buying the 2011 i7 Quad Core MMS's from Apple's refurb store (Refurbs are covered by the exact same warranties as the full price units but for much less cash! ) for just over $700 each including two built 500GB 7200 rpm serial ATA HDs. Personally while SSDs are indeed very fast, I find the trade off in terms of cost per GB just still too much at this time. I cannot comment on that particular Mac Mini model but my 2011 Mac Mini Servers run fairly quietly unless I am really pushing them hard (and even then the fan noise is not that bad) and heat hasn't proven to be any issue at all. If you need more info, please ask and when I have some time later today or tomorrow i will continue/respond. (and most Mac Pros for that matter) at less than the price of a single high spec'ed iMac.that his system can run rings around! A friend of mine just bought two good spec'ed 2013 i7 Mac Minis along with VEP5 and has a really powerful system that beats any iMac. but again, my 2011 top of the range 32GB RAM i7 3.4Ghz iMac can easily beat a large number of Mac Pros to the punch. and a nicely setup i7 imac will set you back a bit of money. The iMacs on the other hand can also be very powerful 'beasts' but again. and just use the Hybrid or 5400rpm drives for the OS. so Id probably get a basic drive conbfig and use external Thunderbolt or FW800 7200rpm drives for my audio stuff. but they still don't seem as efficient to me for Audio work. However the current range doesn't include internal 7200 rpm drives any longer. those extra cores (both real and virtual) really do make a big difference in Logic.
Of the current range I'd get a Quad Core i7 Mac Mini.if you can. though the last i heard was the final stock of them had sold out very quickly (I bought 3 in total at that time!) and it's unlikely any more will become available. though every so often Apple put them up in their refurb store.
as it is a quad core i7 and quite powerful for the price. was the bargain of the year when it was being sold by Apple for $650.
MM's are pretty hard to beat depending on the spec version you get. My Mac Minis are my workhorses to testing out stuff and as 'slave" Macs for my main iMac via VEP5. I have several Mac Minis and a couple of iMacs. I'm pretty sure that Art of sound that posts on here is an advocate of the mac mini's so no doubt he'll be a long shortly to give you some better first hand advice! 🙂īriefly, because I am being swamped with suppoirt requests by people who upgraded to iOS 7 and now their audio apps are having a few issues (Note: If you use Audio Apps on your iPad/iPhone. Like guitars, vocals, hardware synth(s) etc. Most of my audio is coming in and just being recorded in logic and slightly adjusted. I've got an i5 and perfectly happy with it, but then i'm not really maxing out on plugins etc. You can also set up aux channels, so if you're using a reverb on each track you place it once on the aux channel and then route the tracks through that channel to apply it through the single plugin - Does that make sense?! 🙂
#IMAC VS MAC MINI FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION REVIEWS SOFTWARE#
You can also bounce down (or freeze) a software plugin so that it converts to audio and shuts off the software plugin to give you more resources. For example there is a low latency mode which will disable plugins which are causing your system to slow down to keep things snappy, these are normally heavy processing like mastering tools. However, when you start using 3rd party plugins this can change somewhat, there's some really cpu intensive ones out there, but Logic has many options to keep you going. I really must say that a quad cpu does make a considerable difference when you start using many plugins, but an i5 (Are they 2.5ghz on those?) can handle 20+ tracks quite confortably with effects and software powered instruments etc.
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It's hard to judge, but i mean that's pretty much the same spec of the basic mac book pro which a lot of people use and it's fine.ĭo you have any idea on what strain you will be putting on the system? Do you run Logic currently to have an idea?
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