Off Topic Mac Recording

[agt]

Reaper is my recommendation. Extremely powerful and extremely affordable plus great support. Somewhat steep learning curve, though, but well worth it if one is serious about recording.

Any version of Pro Tools other than the top-of-the-line HD lacks full automatic delay compensation (ADC). It must be done manually, otherwise you risk phase and timing issues. Just about every other DAW (Logic, Cubase, Reaper, ...) has this feature.

 

[Colin]

Based on the initial question I'm not sure ADC is going to worry him somehow. All the native plugins that come with PT don't introduce delay anyway. Hopefully ADC is not far for us though

 

[MrMusashi]

start with garageband and if you cant do what you need to with that, go logic 9.
as for sound cards, apogee cards integrate beautifully with mac/logic.

if you have used protools and know your way around, you could go with the pt8 mbox packages. they just released the new versions of those...

hth!

MrM

 

[Colin]

the best thing about those new mboxes is that you can use them on Logic etc. And they will record at 24-bit, 192kHz

 

[Tung]

I've done (limited) recording on my Macbook Pro, but I've done a fair amount of recording on an iMac running protools 8. I graduated from College for music, and all of the recoding we did was on Macs. . . they've become somewhat of the standard for studios nowadays.

The point of this post is that I love my macbook pro for recording. . . but I also love it for everything! If your on the fence I really can't stress how awesome Macs are. Once you switch you might never turn back

+1. Once you go Mac, you never go back
Except when I went to college for music, it was so long ago, Cubase was the new thing.

 

[sambarugh]

So I'm really enjoying my Mac experience so far...picked up the 21.5" iMac.
Seems that users really like to customize their dashboards/docks and I was thinking how cool it would be to have MM icons for Garageband or any other music app. Any one know how to make them? Would be awesome to have a little JP BFR sitting on my dock

 

[germangallardo]

So I'm really enjoying my Mac experience so far...picked up the 21.5" iMac.
Seems that users really like to customize their dashboards/docks and I was thinking how cool it would be to have MM icons for Garageband or any other music app. Any one know how to make them? Would be awesome to have a little JP BFR sitting on my dock

OMG what a great idea! If anyone knows please share!

Also, congrats on the new Mac I love my old trusty iMac and I usually go with Garageband for quick recordings, I'm learning Logic 9.

Also I've been looking at the apogee duet, I have a MOTU Ultralite and works flawlessly with my Mac. I'm running Snow Leopard btw.