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 us...

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 ...

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 o...

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 lat...

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 ...

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 vanil...

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.

OneWorld wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 4:42 pm I think the title of the post might be better reading....."How can I bring myself a load of faffing about together with a flaky litany and perplexing problems"

UAD have finally killed the archaic DSP faff. Sell the cards before they are worth zero.

Arpangel wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:40 am"Computers Will"

We all know that, that’s not to say it’s "automatically" a good thing, personally, I’d like to wipe them from the face of the planet.

If computers didn't exist you wouldn't be able to enlighten us everyday with your positive, inspirational posts.

My 2017 MacBook Pro needs replacing. Spec is as follows... Late 2017 - A1707 - 15" 2.9GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD I'm thinking the new 15" MacBook Air might be good enough to replace it. Crucially, I make music in Logic Pro, almost entirely with plug-ins - software synths, effe...

... You can't offer upgradable ram with a SOC configuration. ... QED. The RAM chips are attached to the same packaging as the SoC but aren’t incorporated directly into the SoC. They will very likely have been fabricated on a much larger and cheaper node than the SoC by one of the RAM manufacturers....

It's not that. There is always a generation on generation gain. That's Moore's law, if you bothered to click the link. The fact is that a Mac Pro used to be a huge step up in power from other Macs available. I thought it was a nice piece of engineering, if stupidly expensive. It was possible to con...

There's this thing called Moore's law you might have heard of. To be clear: a Mac Pro is now a Mac Studio with PCIe slots. Spin that how you like, but that's the reality. When the M1 came out there was speculation that using what could be thought on as a phone chip on steroids was an indication tha...

I was specifically referring to the M2 Extreme or whatever they were going to call the chip suitable for a Mac Pro in the old sense of "Mac Pro, more power than you'll ever need", which Apple didn't pull off. The new Mac Pro can 22 streams of 8k video. The old Mac Pro with 2k afterburner ...

I bought an M2 Mac Mini when they first came out to use with a USB multi-disk enclosure as a file server. However I simply couldn't get it to work reliably, as the external drives kept going to sleep and disconnecting from the client Macs, despite having the Mac Mini configured for the drives not t...

Please do not spend the extra 4000 to run a UAD card! Ancient technology that even UAD themselves have finally given up on.

Apple failed. It happens. I was quite interested in this to see how the fruity ones would eat their cake and have it. Eating the cake being high performance, and having the cake being low power. They couldn't do it. They did a pretty good job and have the most efficient high performance computers o...

Ableton, Bitwig, Reaper, Renoise