Now don't get me wrong, MacBook Pros are great for working on to a certain degree, but when you rock up to the studio, client in tow, you all sit down and all that's up there on the monitor bridge is a laptop, well that's just not cricket, especially when you open the 80 track session in Pro Tools HD with 40 channel strips and compressors, virtual instruments, some sampler instruments and all the trimmings that are part of a large working session, it ain't gonna happen, more power is needed.Īs we all know there's only one other Apple box of tricks that can fill this void and it's about £7000.00 away from being used by most along with its seriously outdated hardware and, to be honest, just not what is actually required for a pro situation. ![]() ![]() Has it got thunderbolt or USB, Type C, Dante Ethernet, 3.1, what OS will it run, will it support this, will it support that? It dawned upon me (and with a slight sinking feeling) that maybe this is the future and we are in it. It's 2017 and the hottest new audio tech in the world is laid out before me and it doesn't involve a workstation, WRONG.Īs I went from pitch to pitch looking over manufacturers new wares and having brief chats with them it was becoming glaringly obvious that so many were in limbo over what they can or can't use for when it comes to heavy computing in studios, suites or facilities and most importantly design their applications for. Sure there were more MacBooks in attendance than every Apple Store put together but there were no real, desktop computers. Now I'm not going to bore you with run downs on hot new tech and demos ( Pro Tools Expert has covered a lot of what's been going on at NAMM 2017) or bumping into Stevie Wonder, but what I will talk about is the computers, or lack of them.
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