I just replaced a 2006 iMac that I was using in my studio. It could record fine at 44.1khz. Never more than 20 tracks.
However, if you start throwing plugins into the mix, things started going south fast. Add say an instance of Aliverb....or a waves compressor...then the track count on the machine dropped to maybe 6 on a good day. Certainly couldn't get that if I did that on one drive. And forget about doing anything at 96khz. I could get maybe 2 tracks happening with plugins. So, I'd still say whatever the person is going to do, having stuff tracked to a non-system drive is the way to go Sent from my iSomething -- On Apr 22, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Steve Parker <st...@pinkrat.co.uk> wrote: > This is conventional wisdom and very good advice.. but still depends on how > much you need to do at once. > My ageing MacBook has no problem recording 16 tracks or 24/44 to the internal > 4200rpm drive. > External drives are so cheap though... > > Steve P. > > On 22 Apr 2012, at 18:53, Eric Dannewitz <ericd...@jazz-sax.com> wrote: > >> Any Mac can do it, but if you are going to record audio or use a lot >> of sample libraries, you'll want to tracks/record using a different >> hard drive like a FireWire/usb2/thunderbolt drive. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
