Jonathan,
No worries about audio and music production on Windows. Got that covered
with Samplitude.
You gave me a chuckle when you mentioned making my living with sound. I
haven't been making a living with sound, or anything else for that
matter, for twelve years now--retired since March, 2006, before which I
hacked DEC PDP systems, and then OpenVMS, for nearly thirty years. Uncle
Sam and two pensions are paying me to sit at home and learn all about
the stuff I wished I had time to learn back when I was working, but are
way more accessible and fun to use now than they ever were. So maybe
somebody was saving my best years for me to play with it all when it got
good and usable.
I think what I'm going to wind up doing is transistorizing my storage
(upgrading the internal 5400rpm drive to a high-performance
large-capacity SSD), and at least doubling my RAM. I'll start with the
disk, which will give me that instrant gratification thing for sure, and
take my time to shop for memory. When I get the memory in hand, I'll
make an appointment somewhere to remove and discard the old slow
mechanical drive and put in the new memory That'll keep me for years to
come. Nobody says I have to upgrade the next time Mac OS upgrades.modules.
On 5/11/2018 10:23 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
If your only issue is that Time Machine is causing a burp because both it and
your music tools are using the same disk I can think of two possibilities to
extend the life of your machine.
1. Add an additional hard disk dedicated to TimeMachine. I am not sure what
efficiencies there are for USB to USB disk copy so it might be that this would
not work great either. Certainly if the computer has two internal USB 3 hubs
and your applications end up doing significant I/O it would make sense to try
and have your disks on separate USB hubs. You can get an idea about this by
opening the USB row in utilities System Info application. The second panel
should have a tree view of your USB devices and if there is more than one at
the first level definitely find out about moving resources to reduce I/O on the
USB hubs.
The second Option I was thinking of is to just turn off TimeMachine while doing
your editing.
In any case, if you are thinking of moving to Windows or Linux, and you are
making your living with sound then, make sure to have enough time to not only
learn the new platform but also transition all your tools to it. It does seem
that several blind people are quite comfortable with sound production on the
PC. I believe Jonathan Mozen even has a book about it.
On May 10, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:
I have a quad core i7 late 2012 Mac Mini with the stock 5400rpm 1TB drive and
8GB RAM. I use it exclusively for music reation and education (mainly my own)
with Logic and Pro Tools. My sample libraries are stored on an external MyBook
3TB drive which is also shared with time Machine. Consequently, once per hour,
there's a little gligtchiness sometimes if I happen to be playing something
that draws heavily on sampled content when TM runs. Granted, it only lasts for
a second or two because the machine does not require much in the way of
backups, as very little on it changes.
So I'm starting to think it's time for an upgrade. But what to upgrade?
Clearly more memory would help, as well as replacing the mechanical drive with
a solid-state drive. There's also the main hardware, which surely can't be
upgradable to the next operating system forever. I ran into this with a 2009
iMac when Sierra was released. For disk replacement, Crucial has a 2TB drive
for five hundred dollars--that's just twenty-five cents US per gig--a very nice
price. I'm quite fond of Crucial solid-state disks, as I already own two other
smaller units used in other machine. I figure if I changed out the 1TB rotating
drive for a 2TB SSD and moved all my sample libraries to that drive, that would
also eliminate the USB 3 slow-down (if there really is one, which I'm not
convinced there is), then that USB drive would be used exclusively for Time
Machine backups.
Another option is to purchase an empty Mac Pro and put the Crucial 2TB drive
and lots of memory into it, then set the rest of it up as above. But how long
will a Mac Pro last before it, too, can no longer be upgraded? With the price
of Apple hardware ever increasing, will I eventually get priced out of
upgrading?
Everybody says it's bad practice to mix system and data files on a drive. But
if it's a solid-state drive, how could this be bad?
If I obtain a Mac Pro, which model year has the highest expandability quotient?
i.e., which one can I keep the longest and expand the most into the future
before it won't be expandable/ upgradable any more, like my old 2009 iMac
turned out to be when Sierra was released.
So, what would you do?
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