It’s your tape machine, mixing desk and editing software environment. There are a couple of other good reasons why a Macbook Pro and/ or a Mac desktop should be your platform of choice:-Ī DAW (digital audio workstation) forms the heart of your system. Most 3 rd party software manufacturers, however, support both platforms, and a good PC will certainly get the job done. There are certain hardware and software reasons why it can be strongly argued that Macs are superior machines – you can read more here. I’ll try to avoid the familiar battlefield of which platform is ‘better’! For pro users, one tends to stick to the platform you learned your craft on – even just changing from one set of shortcuts to another can be painful when there always seems to be a tight deadline looming.

It’s the same story for my laptops, culminating in my current refurbished MacBook Pro. I’ve been through maybe 4 or 5 upgrades since then, all refurbished machines (and obviously ditched the old standalone recorder). It may surprise you to learn that the last brand new Mac I bought was a Performa 6500 in 1998, to run midi alongside a dedicated digital audio workstation (a Korg VS1680). What follows will be ‘in my experience’, an inevitably personal take on the subject. I have a static studio setup, and a mobile rig for my ‘on the road’ needs, and both of my rigs are built around refurbished machines.Įvery fellow audio professional that I know shares a similar path to me – their computer setup has evolved around their changing needs and practices alongside the steady march of technology, and we’ve all come to rely more and more on working ‘in the box’. Modern audio production all starts with capable and reliable computers. I’m an audio professional, and so demand high performance and minimum downtime from my Macs. Do I really need a brand new Mac for audio?

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