rob aylestone
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I don't usually need help for computer stuff, but the last two issues of Sound on Sound have had a feature on macs for music. I'm now confused.
I do have cubase 12 pro running on an M1 macbook pro, and an older imac, but as I have drives full of sample packages, my main studio computer that I do the bulk of the work on is a PC - windows 10. I'm very happy with all of them. However, the studio machine, though it's never let me down, is now becoming a bit temperemental - fine with many applications, but start up time for cubase can easily be 10 minutes and sometimes it hangs and I need to restart. Usually it's when it's searching for the VSTs - as I add more samples, speed is dropping and kontakt loading times increasing. It's processor won't allow for windows 11, either.
The sound on sound article with all the speed and performance graphs suggests that a mac mini M2pro with 500Gb SSD, more sockets and 16Gb of memory does really well on cubase - so I am thinking my initial plan with an i9 might actually be more expensive - the mini is about £1400 UK price.
I have no beef with apple or windows, but I'm struggling to see the pros and cons this time. In the same magazine was an advert for a i9 13th 13900k computer?
I'd welcome any comments as I really am stuck. I love the elderly presonus firepod I'm using, which works rock solid via firewire - can you still drive it wwith a mac?
I do have cubase 12 pro running on an M1 macbook pro, and an older imac, but as I have drives full of sample packages, my main studio computer that I do the bulk of the work on is a PC - windows 10. I'm very happy with all of them. However, the studio machine, though it's never let me down, is now becoming a bit temperemental - fine with many applications, but start up time for cubase can easily be 10 minutes and sometimes it hangs and I need to restart. Usually it's when it's searching for the VSTs - as I add more samples, speed is dropping and kontakt loading times increasing. It's processor won't allow for windows 11, either.
The sound on sound article with all the speed and performance graphs suggests that a mac mini M2pro with 500Gb SSD, more sockets and 16Gb of memory does really well on cubase - so I am thinking my initial plan with an i9 might actually be more expensive - the mini is about £1400 UK price.
I have no beef with apple or windows, but I'm struggling to see the pros and cons this time. In the same magazine was an advert for a i9 13th 13900k computer?
I'd welcome any comments as I really am stuck. I love the elderly presonus firepod I'm using, which works rock solid via firewire - can you still drive it wwith a mac?