When the new Mac Pro 2019 was announced I thought long and hard about going for a PC workstation. 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. It too is a great machine for the money but I was still in a mess of Apple dongles with an expansion chassis. The iMac lasted for me until 2018 when I bought a Mac mini. I’d argue that is its natural environment, or at least, out of the way and away from my ears. A tower can be placed in the machine room. 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. 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’. The iMac also saw me end up with a mess of dongles and using an expansion chassis for the HDX card. 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 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. I bought a 2017 iMac 5k 27” as a bit of a test. 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. Not without a few bumps in the road but, on the whole, a positive experience. I’ve had a happy marriage with Apple and Pro Tools for many years. Then a G5, then a couple of Mac Pro’s- running TDM/HD/HDX systems for the most part as well as native systems. It is just a lot of money for a computer for me, a one-man-band producer/engineer/audio consultant. There isn’t a machine that works for me as much as a Mac tower, and as we all know Apple hasn’t made a proper tower since 2012. I bought the new Mac Pro somewhat under duress. Yes, I actually bought one, which was a surprise to me as much as anyone (although not to my long-suffering and extremely wonderful wife). Mac OS Catalina Support is here for Pro Tools with the exception of the new Mac Pro, which is a pity because that is the machine I see sitting before me. In this article, he shares his experiences setting up a 2019 Mac Pro with Logic Pro X and Pro Tools 2019.12 running on macOS Catalina with an Avid Pro Tools HDX1 system. He has chosen to go for a new 2019 Mac Pro even though it isn’t approved yet for Pro Tools. For most projects, it can handle the full load.Community member James Richmond is a freelance producer/engineer/audio consultant working from his studio in Oxfordshire, UK. You can use external Thunderbolt drives but that internal PCI-E SSD is blazing fast. The SSD in the MPB is not replaceable so get the size you need. I doubt you will notice much a difference, however. Once again it depends on your workflow, the number of tracks, and how you use VI's and plugins.Īs for the GPU, neither will offer much of a performance improvement for Protools, but if you are driving multiple monitors via USB-C/Thunderbolt to Display Port at high resolutions and refresh rates, the better GPU will run more effortlessly. The speed bump is only marginal but every little bit helps in Protools. Protools has always been processor hungry so the more processing power you have the better. Next, I would look to bump up the processor. Of course, this depends on your workflow, the number of tracks, and how you use VI's and plugins. This is mostly because the i9 processor is already a beast. I think the maximum benefit would be achieved by maxing the RAM to 32GB.
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