Best mac to run Logic pro on?

Depends what your needs are.

if you spend alot of time working in logic on the move (in the train, at cafe's etc.) then you should get a Macbook Pro.

- If you want to make music proffesionally, mixing, producing, performing, get the best and biggest Macbook Pro

- If you just want to record and do pre-mixing and performing live but on a small scale, get the best 13"

If you only want to work in a studio, definetly get the best iMac, if you have the economic to it, get the new iMac pro, that machine will make it smooth.

dont buy a Macbook Air and dont get a regular macbook, at some point they will be too weak to handle the size of your productions.

Hope i was any help.

Mac Pro dual 2.4 GHz. 8+8 cores for Logic.

The best way to record vocals is to record them to a second internal disk, NOT to the system disk. Simply save your Logic projects to that disk, audio files will be stored/recorded to the Audio Files folder within the project folder.

Stefaan Fernande wrote:

Thanks for the advice. I never heard of second INTERNAL disk though, I only know exernal. Do I just ask for that when I order the mac?

Sorry for my ignorance...

Stef

Mac Pro's can hold 4 internal disks, which you can buy from Apple, but getting it anywhere else online or even in shops is much cheaper - for equal quality. Same goes for extra RAM. Both these hardwares are easily user installable, so no need to have Apple do it. Unless you don't care about a a couple of hundreds or even a thousand dollars more...

Can my new Mac Book Pro 8.1 (13inch) 4GB RAM take 4 internal Hard Drives?? I don't think there's room.

I've made my purchase based on budget, what can I do to boost my recording and playback power in Logic Express 9?.

8GB of RAM will be one upgrade. BUT should I opt for External Backup Drive or Internal? Which is faster?

I guess I'll be looking for Mac Compatible 7800rpm Seagate or similar External harddisc?

I use Reaktor plug in with Razor and lots of effected sampled based tracks,

any large live audio recordings can be done on another Intel i5 PC at 96KHz then imported to Logic.

Would love any links on System Tips to Speed up system performance with Logic.

1. Don't hijack this thread. Start your own.

2. I didn't say Macbook Pro can hold 4 internal disks, I said Mac Pro (no "book") can hold 4 internal disks.

3. There are no 7800 RPM disks. 5400, 7200 (most common), 10,000 and 15,000 are the 'standard' RPM values.

On current version of Logic Pro and running a 2008 MacPRo Intel Xeon,

a) 3GHz CPU speed

b) 2 processors

c) 4 cores per processor=8 cores altogether

Still on this thread (although belatedly) of choosing a computer for LOGIC (now at 64bits)

1) What's the most important of the 3 factors

a) CPU Speed

b) number of processors

c) number of cores

2) Main system drive choices:
a) Have you found using a SSDrive a big difference in performance cf a normal 3.5 7200rpm drive.

b) any experience anyone in terms of using a 10000rpm drive or an enterprise drive?

3) Any thoughts of the sweet spot for RAM

a) 16G or more (is the significant price difference worth it?

b) 3rd party brands recommendations vs apple RAM from Store?

Thanks for any thoughts.

ST

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Still on this thread (although belatedly) of choosing a computer for LOGIC (now at 64bits)

1) What's the most important of the 3 factors

a) CPU Speed

b) number of processors

c) number of cores

2) Main system drive choices:
a) Have you found using a SSDrive a big difference in performance cf a normal 3.5 7200rpm drive.

b) any experience anyone in terms of using a 10000rpm drive or an enterprise drive?

3) Any thoughts of the sweet spot for RAM

a) 16G or more (is the significant price difference worth it?

b) 3rd party brands recommendations vs apple RAM from Store?

i do think u need quad core for best performance. i had dual core and it was very tricky to work with lots of channels. more u need 16 gb of ram and better to get 1TB Fusion Drive and not a 7200 hard drive.

Yes, it would, they (iMacs i7) are faster than the first few generations Mac Pro, they have 8 cores (4 "real" and 4 hyperthreaded - Logic uses HT cores as well as "real" cores. I would strongly advice either a second internal disk, or an external Thunderbolt or USB3 disk to store your projects on (= also to record audio to and to read audio from).

What is it with people ignoring simple instructions.

DON'T HIJACK THIS THREAD. IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION START A THREAD.

1)

Cores first, then speed. More processors is just more cores really, but the IPC is slower so those cores on the second processor take a performance hit.

2) SSD's make projects load faster, as a system drive they don't make a huge difference to the power of your Logic projects until you start putting the latency of your sound card into very low ranges. Again at this point you lose a lot of processing capacity and you start having to use the Low Latency button a **** of a lot, so to put it simply... it makes things feel faster but it's not actually giving you more power 99% of the time, if you have to scrimp to fit a budget this is the first thing I'd cut.

3) 32GB I would say, but it depends on usage. Before I bought Vienna Symphonic, I would have got away with 8, maybe 16 on the occasional project, but then I use a lot of synthesis in the genres of music I work with. And 3rd party, every time. Hynix and Samsung RAM are cool (it's what Apple use), but there are unlucky folks out there with far less trusty brands of Ram coming out of their systems. I like Mushkin and Crucial, and have had problems with Corsair and Kingston, but the latter two are sweared upon by a lot of users here. The common thing here is that almost nobody upgrades via Apple unless they must.

Stefaan I guess you might have already bought a Mac but just in case, I wanted to warn you about something.

We've been speed testing hard drives and we've noticed that there might be a problem now for people buying an iMac 21.5" or a Mac Mini for audio work. Both of those computers are fitted with a 5400RPM drive as standard, and you can change this for a Fusion drive when you order a new Mac. Although the Fusion drive is fantastic for improving boot up speed and also for copying files from an external source (both activities use the very quick SSD part of the Fusion drive) performance with large audio files is very poor.

When you are playing audio files in Logic/Pro Tools/Cubase etc, they are most likely to be playing back from the spinning hard drive part of the Fusion. We're getting the same sort of performance as we get from a 5400RPM drive, which is not great. SO: If you want to buy a Fusion drive to speed boot up and general performance, please go ahead. But for audio you should definitely buy an external drive running at 7200 RPM. I recommend a Thunderbolt drive, or maybe a Firewire 800 drive connected using Apple's Thunderbolt to FW800 adapter. You can get even faster RAID and SSD drives if you really need to, but a 7200 RPM drive is pretty good. The standard hard drives in a Mini or 21.5 iMac now are really too slow for audio work.

It's interesting that the 27" iMac is still available with 7200 RPM drive options. Apple clearly see this as a machine for running professional media apps.

I agree with all the posts above which recommend lots of RAM. 8GB or 16GB is good.

I hope that helps.

You're replying to a thread that's nearly 4 years old since the last post and six years since the first post.