#Best imac for recording music how to#
#Best imac for recording music update#
#Best imac for recording music upgrade#
#Best imac for recording music pro#

#Best imac for recording music upgrade#

So the 13' MBP may be good bang for your buck at a bit under $2k for the mid-range model w/ slight RAM / SSD upgrade if you like. I don’t have much Windows experience so can’t speak to differences but we’re on Mac for all our machines in the office and they work well for us! Note that Apple machines are typically preferred for programming as well (under the hood, much closer to Unix than Windows machines). I’d go with at least 16 GB RAM / 512 GB SSD just to future-proof a bit. Yeah for college when you’re lugging the computer around to class all the time, I actually might suggest the 13' MacBook Pro.Īs others have mentioned, for basic music production, really any model should be fine, unless you’re doing really intensive processing (or gaming / graphics-heavy stuff) you don’t need a maxed out processor, graphics card, etc. I used cubase on windows for three years, but I hear that many professionals prefer apple, though I don’t know why, but I still want to have a try.

If I buy this laptop, how big the project I can process? ( sorry for asking these questions, but I am exactly a newbie in those ele-hardware and I have no idea which build is enough for which kind of project…)

#Best imac for recording music pro#

So, is this MacBook Pro setting enough for me? Or you think I should upgrade any part?(I noticed that in your suggestion it should be 2500-3000, this is 2400)

#Best imac for recording music how to#

Very expensive for me, but I’ll consider it if necessary.ġ, Creat a backing track ( around 10-12 tracks )and create a solo or something else over it (4-6 tracks)Ģ, use a backing track and do the song cover (around 5-8 tracks)ģ, for the mix, well, I don’t really do that because I can’t…don’t know how to do that, I often use vst like ozone 8 to mix automatically…wait…is it called mix…alright… My final recommendation would be that if you don’t need a laptop, you’ll typically get better bang for your buck with an iMac! The 27' retina 5k iMacs are awesome, and you can often find a pretty sweet refurb of a recent model for considerably cheaper than an equivalent MacBook Pro. If you buy from OWC you’ll still get the standard 1 year coverage I believe. If you do buy direct from Apple I’d recommend getting the extended warrantee (AppleCare) which will be a couple hundred bucks extra, but cover you for 3 years instead of the default 1 year in case you have any hardware issues. more RAM at much better prices than Apple): If price is a main concern I’d check Apple refurbished, some good savings here but still buying directly from Apple: Īlso, OWC has some great deals on refurb models as well, and considerably cheaper upgrades (they’ll let you configure to add e.g.

For the new 16' models you’re looking at $2500-3k for a pretty standard config, definitely not cheap though should last several years. Default graphics card and 512 GB SSD likely fine too (though 1 TB a good idea if you can swing it).

Personally I’d probably upgrade to 32GB RAM, but you should be fine with 16 GB.

#Best imac for recording music update#

If you prefer a smaller / cheaper model, it might be worth waiting a bit as they’ll likely update the keyboards on the rest pretty soon too (see the Wirecutter review for detail) If price isn’t a top concern, I’d go with one of the newest 16' MacBook Pros - recent upgrade, pretty much top of the line you can get, and larger screen will be nice (though for any size laptop, an external monitor may come in handy).Īnother thing to note is that for the last few years Apple has had a lot of issues w/ the laptop keyboards being not super reliable, and this new 16' MacBook Pro model has apparently a much improved keyboard.