charlesparente Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 The power/price ratio really seems to be rapidly improving with the iMac every year. I haven't updated my Powermac G5 to a MacPro yet---scared off by all the problematic posts I'm reading---and I'm thinking about the iMac. Does anyone here use an iMac as their main Logic machine? How is it going? A 1 TB internal hard drive and 4GB RAM could go a long way I'd think. Only drawback I see is 1 hard drive--sure is nice to have 2 internal SATA hard drives in my G5 for huge streaming sample libraries like EW which I use a lot. best, Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainguitar Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Hi Charles, I use an older iMac (1.83) with 2 gigs of ram. My stuff is pretty simple usually running between 8 and 20 tracks. Works fine for the most part but I do use an external synth for some parts. I've had some issues with larger EXS24 samples (grand pianos) especially when paired with space designer. However apple just released the new iMacs (up to 3.06, 4 gigs ram & 1 TG HD) That's a lot more computer than what I've got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vm1971 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 The power/price ratio really seems to be rapidly improving with the iMac every year. I haven't updated my Powermac G5 to a MacPro yet---scared off by all the problematic posts I'm reading---and I'm thinking about the iMac. Does anyone here use an iMac as their main Logic machine? How is it going? A 1 TB internal hard drive and 4GB RAM could go a long way I'd think. Only drawback I see is 1 hard drive--sure is nice to have 2 internal SATA hard drives in my G5 for huge streaming sample libraries like EW which I use a lot. best, Charles yup! see the specs in my signature. awesome. i love my setup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bresnark Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 As I've posted somewhere else today, don't forget the limitations on the busses using a consumer-line Mac - one USB bus, one firewire bus, no potential to upgrade. That means you're going to run into throughput problems if you want to use external drives / interfaces / DSP. Which IS (I think) quite a setback. It's certainly setting ME back! Robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamLuna Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Robin, what exactly are the problems you're having with the iMac? I'm pretty new to this, and I was thinking about getting one. I would just be using a midi controller, most likely also with a Preonus Firestudio interface. Probably not much else. My plan is just to make beats and record a few of my friend's bands here locally to start off, as well as recording any song ideas that I have for my band. Would this work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anowrexiya Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I have an iMac as my main studio machine and have had no problems with it so far, it seems pretty happy, i record instruments live aswell as running quite a few virtual synths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JigMD80 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I use an Imac, and it has worked out great for me. I haven't needed more firewire ports or anything yet. I will admit, i am saving up for a Mac pro though. They are monsters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maninthedark30 Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 *knock knock* (on wood desk) I have little to no issues with my iMac setup, running a firewire interface and two firewire external drives (and a portable USB on-the-go drive). The only probs I've run across (aside from the usual bugs in Logic, such as graphical glitches, etc.) have been the core overloads everyone mentions and clicky, poppy audio occasionally, and what I've learned is that it is mostly user error. What I often forget to do is switch the buffer back to more samples when I'm done tracking, or something like that. Honestly, it's the best setup I've ever had, and much faster than the AMD 64 I was using to run cubase. I suppose I may consider upgrading to a Mac Pro in the future if my productions ever begin to exceed what I'm doing now, but most of my stuff stays under 20 tracks. Still, the few I do have going that have 25-30 run just fine as well. *knock knock* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bresnark Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Robin, what exactly are the problems you're having with the iMac? I'm pretty new to this, and I was thinking about getting one. I would just be using a midi controller, most likely also with a Preonus Firestudio interface. Probably not much else. My plan is just to make beats and record a few of my friend's bands here locally to start off, as well as recording any song ideas that I have for my band. Would this work? Aw, heck - you'll be fine. I'm on a MacBook myself. The difference is between the consumer and PRO lines of Macs. Eventually, you get frustrated not being able to add more firewire ports (via expansion cards etc) - which are essential for adding more drives and DSP processing. There's only SO many things you can run off one firewire bus, you see! So there's no point even thinking about products like the Focusrite LiquidMix or the SSL Duende unless you have a Pro Mac. And, as for keeping your sample library on one drive, your projects on another and your system on a third? Uh-uh. It's those kinds of things you start to hanker for. But for the simple stuff, a Macbook or iMac is just dandy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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