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I’ve had a happy marriage with Apple and Pro Tools for many years. Not without a few bumps in the road but, on the whole, a positive experience. When my 2010 Mac Pro died a few years ago I considered buying another identical machine on the used market but wanted to get something more modern with Thunderbolt. I bought a 2017 iMac 5k 27” as a bit of a test. The iMac is a fine machine in itself but in a professional recording studio, I tend to prefer to have anything, that has a fan in it, as far away from my ears as possible. Of course, you could put the iMac in a machine room but then you are paying for a large screen you cannot use. The iMac also saw me end up with a mess of dongles and using an expansion chassis for the HDX card. I didn’t hate it and yes it all worked, but it felt clunky and messy compared to a nice neat tower with ‘all the stuff inside it’. I also found that the iMac’s fans would spin up at inopportune times, not often but when they did it was annoying and I always had a nagging sense that a tower is just the proper machine for a studio, not an “all in one” like the iMac.

A tower can be placed in the machine room. I’d argue that is its natural environment, or at least, out of the way and away from my ears.

The iMac lasted for me until 2018 when I bought a Mac mini. It too is a great machine for the money but I was still in a mess of Apple dongles with an expansion chassis. But I found myself asking the question “Why can they not just make a proper tower computer for all the stuff to go in?” A New Toy It did mean that I could position the Mac mini away from the mix position, which was great.

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When the new Mac Pro 2019 was announced I thought long and hard about going for a PC workstation. I work in Logic and Pro Tools and didn’t want to give up working in Logic unless I absolutely had to, so the day the Mac Pro was released I looked at the different specs and plunked down the cash for a 3.2GHz 16 Core machine with a 4TB SSD and base video and RAM. The order went in to with Apple with a date of delivery of around early January, but bless them they managed to get it to me a whole lot earlier than that, just 9 days after it was ordered and that included it getting lost in the delivery system once. Yes, it was expensive- around £8,900 all up. Unboxing was an excellent experience - the box is super heavy-duty, the two sections are held together with velcro fabric, definitely a box to hold onto if you have space, should you ever need to transport it anywhere. The new chassis is a work of art and design. The machine is effectively silent in a recording studio environment. If you put your ear right up against it you can hear the fan very slightly - from 1-2 metres away it is dead silent. Since taking delivery of the Mac Pro, the memory has been upgraded via OWC/Mac Sales (much cheaper than Apple) with an extra 128GB for a total of 160GB (and I still have 4 RAM slots free.) You could definitely have this machine in your control room and still track vocals with a condenser microphone. I’ve also bought a couple of PCIe sleds for a 1TB NVME and a 2TB SSD, so I have a total of 7TB of storage internally.

#Intel power gadget mac old version for mac os

Installing Pro ToolsĪs I have mentioned already, Avid has released Pro Tools 2019.12, which provides support ‘with restrictions’ for Mac OS 10.5 ‘Catalina’ but without support for the 2019 Mac Pro, for which support is still listed as ‘coming soon’. For example, I only recently moved my main production machine to Mac OS Mojave and in order to keep compatibility.