I was all set to purchase a new MacBook pro to replace my ailing 14 year old workhorse MacBook pro and then doubt took hold. I was happy to go for the 14" base model M4 with Ram increased to 24gig. With Logic pre-installed this came in at about £2k. Then I see the M4pro model, which comes with ...

Pretty interesting read! Anyone around here try this one or have any thoughts about it? From the article: "I would be proud to give to any vocalist. Is it a Neumann? I don’t think so, and also I don’t have one for testing because I don’t have $3,595" Translation: "I have no idea what I'm talking abo ...

mountain lion wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:16 pm Surely the base m4 processor must be a lot better than my quadcore 2015.

Yes, it'll absolutely demolish it. Unless you're doing extreme sample rates or absolutely gigantic sounds banks it will be plenty fast enough.

Some impressive specs, and yes, the base model prices are surprisingly un-Apple-like. Agreed Luke - very attractive. Anyone know if the internal power supply is an auto-switching one so it can be used in different countries? Almost all power supplies have been dual switching for decades. The Mac ...

There is already a lot of terrible sync music out there. AI can quite easily replace this soulless crap.

Sounds terrible!

Surely thunderbolt / usb-c to multiple usb-a hub makes more sense. Loads of them available. Audio interfaces tend not to like hubs. Depends on the hub. If you have a thunderbolt sound card you need a thunderbolt hub. I have one from OWC and it works perfectly with the sound card, SSD and further ...

Still utterly depressing that Behringer devotes so many resources into old designs. Nostalgia is an awful thing.

It looks like they've slightly hobbled the CPU performance in the Pro versions of the M2/3 chips compared to the M1Pro.

Surely thunderbolt / usb-c to multiple usb-a hub makes more sense. Loads of them available.

Please don’t do it. AI art is an already cringeworthy fad and looks terrible. The same people pushing this were pushing monkey NFTs a couple of years ago. Look up how that turned out. I think you may need to take another look. Tools like Photoshop generative fill can look totally convincing with a l ...

Please don’t do it. AI art is an already cringeworthy fad and looks terrible. The same people pushing this were pushing monkey NFTs a couple of years ago. Look up how that turned out.

I can honestly say that dealing with stuttering, performance issues and freezing tracks takes up about 50% of my production time. You certainly need a Mac. Specifically an Apple Silicon Mac. Minimum spec: MacBook Air M1 (never consider an Intel chip). Go for 16GB or more if you can. M1 Pro will be ...

Is anyone still using an Atari for making music on a regular basis?

I can confirm .. the Hydrasynth is one of the greatest synths around (at any price).

At some point you'll want to upgrade to Apple Silicon, it runs beautifully. I don't personally like Logic but some people love it, try a demo if you can. Garage band is a cut down version so that would get you used to the workflow. If you don't have the budget for a new setup and you're doing fine ...

Some plugins (and metering) do the up-down sampling automatically, but many don't. This is what I find to be the difficult part. Some plugins don't, some do (and may mention it somewhere), others hide it in a settings menu and some display it proudly on the main GUI! Generally oversampling adds ...

Huge blow for the independent music scene. It feels like every time a good platform for music establishes itself venture capitalists move in and gut it.

I found my Voyager a funny instrument, it sort of sounded fine, but there was something I couldn’t put my finger on, plus the knobs didn’t memorise their position, analogue style, I thought that would be fine, but it’s what made me sell it in the end, the sound wasn’t enough to make me keep it. It s ...

Is there any reason to stick to Intel? Apple Silicon will run rings around archaic Intel setups no matter how much you upgrade it.

Firewire has not been supported since Windows 10 came out in 2015 and the last post here was 2 years ago. Time to let this topic sink into the abyss?

If the heavyweight SoS names are in favour of what this wreck of an issue did for the magazines credibility - let alone the experts, then I accept defeat and will duck out. Please do. This is by some measure the most pathetic thread ever made on this forum. Sexist, reductionist crap that belongs in ...

I think the real problem with VAST is it doesn't really sound that good. Way too much aliasing, excruciatingly fiddly to program, not really capable of emulating analogue convincingly or doing anything particularly spectacular in the digital domain. The sound design on the patches is also very ...

Damn people still using the Delta 1010? I was 16 when I was using this thing! To be fair it was always rock solid and sounded decent to my untrained ears.