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by artfarm1
Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:10 am
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: Time for a new Mac
Replies: 7
Views: 1625

Re: Time for a new Mac

As Artfarm's glowing report suggests, 16GB will probably be plenty for you, RROY. That said, in light of the fact "You pays your money and you takes your chances" with Apple as far as RAM goes (in other words, RAM is not upgradeable), I would be inclined to allocate funds toward RAM and C...
by artfarm1
Sat Jul 29, 2023 6:14 am
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: Time for a new Mac
Replies: 7
Views: 1625

Re: Time for a new Mac

I bought mine (MacMini M2Pro 16 gRAM) a couple of months ago, finally putting my 2009 MacPro out of service. Fantastic in every way! The RAM is plenty for me, as I don't care about 'ready-to-go' orchestral templates with a fully loaded orchestra ready to go at a moments notice (ie: I don't sit aroun...
by artfarm1
Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:38 pm
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro
Replies: 8
Views: 1503

Re: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro

Well, I bought the new MacMini M2PRo version. Wow! (Don't need to say much more) Just wow. After baby-ing my 2009 MacPro and 2015 MacBook Pro i7 over the years and doing good work in them, I just completed a project last week (an updated, but new and similar music track they needed for this year's s...
by artfarm1
Fri Apr 21, 2023 10:49 am
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro
Replies: 8
Views: 1503

Re: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro

Migrating rom High Sierra to Ventura… etc. etc. Gotcha.... thanks again!.... good thing I'm not 'totally new' to moving things around. Will do fresh installs for sure so no old code gets through. And I like the idea of doing a Time Machine backup and then being able to then drag and drop files wher...
by artfarm1
Fri Apr 21, 2023 10:06 am
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro
Replies: 8
Views: 1503

Re: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro

As someone who moved to one about a year ago, I'd heartily recommend a fresh install of Apps and Plugins when moving from an Intel Mac a new Apple Silicon Mac. When I moved from my 2010 Mac Pro to my Mac Studio, etc. etc. Thank you Thank you! Will do. Yes, moving from previous OSX to OSX, from hard...
by artfarm1
Fri Apr 21, 2023 4:44 am
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro
Replies: 8
Views: 1503

Re: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro

Still...... he sells the MacMini for me! I know what you mean, although probably just about anything from the past few years would leave the 2009 Mac pro in the dust. Hah! You can say that again! It's been rock-solid reliable over the years, and I never bothered doing the full 5.1 upgrade because I...
by artfarm1
Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:40 am
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro
Replies: 8
Views: 1503

This video's selling me on the MacMini M2 pro

Here is a video where this guy tries to crash the MacMini M2 pro 16gb/512 (while running Logic) He can't! ....that machine will be plenty good enough for me! He gets tired of trying to duplicate tracks and quits at 231 tracks before starting to get the odd beachball....but it's still running and con...
by artfarm1
Mon Apr 10, 2023 7:47 pm
Forum: MOTU Hardware & MacOS
Topic: Traveller (mk1) with M1 Macs (Big Sur)
Replies: 31
Views: 7239

Re: Traveller (mk1) with M1 Macs (Big Sur)

More explicitly: IMO, the built in reverb stinks. My friend has a gift for understatement . Hahah... it seriously blows chunks. :vomit: I wrestled with it for a while, adjusting it, hoping it would be passable for a "confidence" reverb when tracking vocals. I flat out gave up and and inst...
by artfarm1
Mon Apr 10, 2023 5:16 am
Forum: MOTU Hardware & MacOS
Topic: Traveller (mk1) with M1 Macs (Big Sur)
Replies: 31
Views: 7239

Re: Traveller (mk1) with M1 Macs (Big Sur)

Great thread, thanks to all! These are all questions I've been pondering. I'm still using my original TrvlerMK1 as well, and will be upgrading computers/OSX in the near future. Has been rock solid on High Sierra for years, but I the time has come to move on for sure. (....am still envious of others ...
by artfarm1
Tue Nov 08, 2022 7:04 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: DP 11.21 Released
Replies: 99
Views: 12289

Re: DP 11.21 Released

stubbsonic wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:01 am
You updated DP in the middle of a film project? Courage. :D
Hah! Well, I did keep the older version on the hard drive just in case.

But it didn't 'miss a beat' upgrading at all. The .mov runs beautifully! Best ever.
by artfarm1
Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:10 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: DP 11.21 Released
Replies: 99
Views: 12289

Re: DP 11.21 Released

Just reporting that DP 11.21 is working beautifully on my 2009 MacPro (5.1) and OSX High Sierra 10.13.6. Am in midst of a project with a film track running on the same monitor screen... and I still have the original 2009 stock Mac video card! The only spinning beach ball I had was when I tried to sw...
by artfarm1
Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:28 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Recommendations for stable OS with 9.52
Replies: 4
Views: 460

Re: Recommendations for stable OS with 9.52

Guess I'm a 'dinosaur' as well! I found DP 9.52 to be very unstable for my system. That just might be your problem (?). Now, I'm using DP 11.11 on my old 2009 MacPro (with 5,1 upgrade) with OSX High Sierra 10.13.6. (I still have the original stock video card on the machine.) And, I have duplicate so...
by artfarm1
Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:15 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: DP 11.11 released
Replies: 42
Views: 4672

Re: DP 11.11 released

This update working beautifully on my two systems, both with OSX High Sierra. 2009 MacPro (5,1) and 2015 MacBook Pro. No problems to report. Using lots of Waves vers. 11 plugs, some SoundToys plugs, VEP7 (on same computer), and more. I never use humongous orchestral templates, but do have to use orc...
by artfarm1
Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:43 pm
Forum: General Recording
Topic: Connecting 2 MIDI keyboards in one audio interface
Replies: 7
Views: 2679

Re: Connecting 2 MIDI keyboards in one audio interface

I use a 'MIDI Merge' box that's quite old, and never have any problems. No lag that would even be noticable. I use a 76 key Roland Juno DS synth as my main MIDI conroller, and also use a 25 key MAudio Oxygen for 'keyswitching' of certain libraries. (that way, I don't have to do any octave switching ...
by artfarm1
Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:30 pm
Forum: MOTU Theoretical Discussions, Gripes, Petitions & Off Topic
Topic: Questions for VE Pro 7 Server users
Replies: 5
Views: 807

Re: Questions for VE Pro 7 Server users

FWIW....I'm happily using VEP7 on the same computer as DP11; an 'ancient' 2009 (5,1) with OSX High Sierra. To be clear, I don't need gigantic orchestral templates or giga-banks of CPU-hungry super software synths ready to roll at a moments notice. I create my setups on an as needed basis, which coul...