S Helge Alvar Hallberg
New member
Greetings everyone,
I am thinking about picking up home recording and music production again after more or less having taken a break from it for 15-ish years.
I do realize that I should probably get myself some new gear. I used to use a 2007 Macbook, an Mbox Pro with Pro Tools LE, and a couple of nice libraries, such as EW Symphonic Choirs, EW Symphonic Orchestra Gold Complete, EWQL Ministry of Rock, EQ Bösendorfer, EWQL RA, and Kontakt 3, and things like Melodyne. I would like to try to replicate what I had. As I have gotten older, I have a right to refuse to learn new stuff.
I see that Digidesign (now Avid) still makes Mboxes. I am thinking about getting one of those, and some new Mac. Possibly 16 or 32 GB of ram. I guess I cannot use any of my old libraries or plug-ins, since those were all RTAS, and I understand new plug-in format is AAX? Is it possible to like upgrade a license for an old RTAS version to a new AAX version, or anything of that sort?
Since I am pretty much a complete newbie at how things currently work, I appreciate any recommendations.
I am thinking about picking up home recording and music production again after more or less having taken a break from it for 15-ish years.
I do realize that I should probably get myself some new gear. I used to use a 2007 Macbook, an Mbox Pro with Pro Tools LE, and a couple of nice libraries, such as EW Symphonic Choirs, EW Symphonic Orchestra Gold Complete, EWQL Ministry of Rock, EQ Bösendorfer, EWQL RA, and Kontakt 3, and things like Melodyne. I would like to try to replicate what I had. As I have gotten older, I have a right to refuse to learn new stuff.
I see that Digidesign (now Avid) still makes Mboxes. I am thinking about getting one of those, and some new Mac. Possibly 16 or 32 GB of ram. I guess I cannot use any of my old libraries or plug-ins, since those were all RTAS, and I understand new plug-in format is AAX? Is it possible to like upgrade a license for an old RTAS version to a new AAX version, or anything of that sort?
Since I am pretty much a complete newbie at how things currently work, I appreciate any recommendations.