Old McDonald clearly had an audio interface as well as a farm.) Higher-end boxes are made by AKAI and Protools. If you are a beginner you can use M-Audio audio interfaces and some of the low-end Edirol boxes by Roland.

I/O boxes range in price from cheap to expensive, depending on your level. Latency is the problem, and this fixes it. So how is it that professional musicians make amazing and complicated music on computers if it can’t be done? The answer is that it can be done, but you need a bit of hardware – a special sound card and I/O box to take the load off the CPU. This means although you can buy a new Mac Mini and make some kind of music on it, you might find that when you start trying to layer up 24 voices to make a choir that everything comes down to a crashing halt.Įven with a top-of-the-line iMac or Mac Pro, you would be hard-pressed to have seamless playback of that many tracks simultaneously one-hundred percent of the time. That goes without saying, but what also goes unsaid often is that in order to function perfectly, professional apps need a lot of system resources.

Most computers are fast today, and the new Macs are the fastest the Mac has ever been. In this article we look at what you need to make your music flow and not stop or judder because your machine is fast but just not fast enough. Music takes memory, and this goes doubly when the instruments you use eat memory like samplers. But can just anyone on any computer do this? It depends on how elaborate the music is.

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