Gary Benny
New member
Hi,
Earlier this year my trusty XP DAW finally died - running SONAR. I decided to try the Mac route. Until now I was trying to take advantage of GarageBand - great price - but finally bit the bullet and downloaded Logic Pro X.
The recording process/performance on the iMac has been kind of skittish. Things seem to be going fine - fast, smooth, solid - but then I get the spinning lollipop for extended periods which will sometimes lead to the system locking up completely.
Based on my current configuration, I'm hoping to get some suggestions on changes I can make to get past my current issues.
This is my iMac configuration:
27" iMac
Late 2012
3.4 GHz i7 Quad Core processor
8 GB RAM
2 GB video
1 TB Fusion drive
I have been using the interface I used on XP system, but I fear it may not be best for use with Mac. It's an M-Audio ProFire 610, and requires several conversions to connect to the iMac: thunderbolt>FireWire 800>FireWire400. I'm wondering how much this could be negatively impacting performance.
On my old XP systems, I used separate internal 7200 RPM hard drives to write audio to. So far, I have been just recording to the Fusion drive in the iMac. I'm wondering if I should get an external 7200 RPM USB 3.0 drive? Or maybe a drive I can attach directly to the Thunderbolt port. If I did that, I'd probably need to get a different interface, probably USB 3.0? How much better would a SSD be than a 7200 RPM drive?
I will probably upgrade soon to 16 GB RAM, but don't really know how much better performance I can expect. The most RAM I ever had on the XP systems was 2 GB, and it was pretty solid.
Guess that's enough for now. Looking forward to your input.
Thanks a lot,
Gary
Earlier this year my trusty XP DAW finally died - running SONAR. I decided to try the Mac route. Until now I was trying to take advantage of GarageBand - great price - but finally bit the bullet and downloaded Logic Pro X.
The recording process/performance on the iMac has been kind of skittish. Things seem to be going fine - fast, smooth, solid - but then I get the spinning lollipop for extended periods which will sometimes lead to the system locking up completely.
Based on my current configuration, I'm hoping to get some suggestions on changes I can make to get past my current issues.
This is my iMac configuration:
27" iMac
Late 2012
3.4 GHz i7 Quad Core processor
8 GB RAM
2 GB video
1 TB Fusion drive
I have been using the interface I used on XP system, but I fear it may not be best for use with Mac. It's an M-Audio ProFire 610, and requires several conversions to connect to the iMac: thunderbolt>FireWire 800>FireWire400. I'm wondering how much this could be negatively impacting performance.
On my old XP systems, I used separate internal 7200 RPM hard drives to write audio to. So far, I have been just recording to the Fusion drive in the iMac. I'm wondering if I should get an external 7200 RPM USB 3.0 drive? Or maybe a drive I can attach directly to the Thunderbolt port. If I did that, I'd probably need to get a different interface, probably USB 3.0? How much better would a SSD be than a 7200 RPM drive?
I will probably upgrade soon to 16 GB RAM, but don't really know how much better performance I can expect. The most RAM I ever had on the XP systems was 2 GB, and it was pretty solid.
Guess that's enough for now. Looking forward to your input.
Thanks a lot,
Gary