I just picked up the new M4 Mac Mini last night and I am loving it. I am a beginner currently still using Garage Band and getting my feet wet before upgrading to Logic Pro. I mostly use music production software for recording and editing my own vocals, Baritone ukulele and acoustic guitar covers.
Ableton, logic and fl studio dont currently take advantage of all performance cores, hopefully they will be updated to do so in the near future though, Cubase and reaper are the only ones that does right now.
I think Logic does use all of the Performance Cores but doesn't use the Efficiency Cores at all. So, the M4 Pro with 8 or 10 Performance Cores should be great.
I’m curious what you guys do for backing up files in case of an internal or external drive failure. Many suggest not paying for internal storage and using external. That’s fine, but then are you backing up what’s stored on an external drive.. onto another external drive? Isn’t that super tedious? Do you plug both drives into the Mac at the same time and manually make 2 copies of everything? Or do most pay for cloud storage and use that as a backup to the external drive? Internal and external drives do fail.. so again, how are y’all backing up years worth of files?
There is no one perfect way to backup. I use Time Machine for backing up my system drive. I use an HDD. I’ve had it for five years and has not given me any problems. If it would fail, most certainly it won’t be at the same time as the internal drive in my Mac Studio. So I would go get a new one and backup again. Why HDD and not SSD? Because if it fails most probably it can be saved. Most of the time it is a mechanical part failing and not the physical drive. All my audio files and sessions are always on external drives. When they get filled up I just put them in an anti-static bag and put them in a box. And if a client calls asking if I still have their material, I’ll tell them I do but can not say 100% the drive the audio is in wont fail, but they also should have a copy of what I have. I always send them through Dropbox a copy to download. It is not a perfect system but it has worked for me. I have drives as old as 10 years and still boot. And only one drive has failed me and it was over 15 years old and it was a cheap drive. And whatever got lost, there has nobody asking me for that material.
@ I appreciate the response. So is your computer’s internal drive massive to then be backing up on an external drive? If I’m understanding correct, you use the external for a backup to the internal, in case the internal fails- and those are the only 2 copies. For myself, I’m debating the base 500gb internal, and saving most stuff like personal pics and vid’s to the external.. cuz I’d have 500gb filled in no time after 15yrs of files. So I’d store them there.. but then there’s just 1 original group of files (on the external HD).. and I’d have to then make an additional copy in case that drive fails (since none would be stored on the laptop’s internal drive). Such a headache.
Which Macbook Pro model are you getting?
M4 Pro 48GB in 16“
Best balance of all.
Thank you sir for being real on this!!! No need for the Max for music
Just bought an m3 air for school. It’s honestly unreal
Glad you’re enjoying it! Ye even the standard M chips are crazy capable
I just picked up the new M4 Mac Mini last night and I am loving it. I am a beginner currently still using Garage Band and getting my feet wet before upgrading to Logic Pro. I mostly use music production software for recording and editing my own vocals, Baritone ukulele and acoustic guitar covers.
Nice! Yeah good idea to start with GarageBand and then upgrade to Logic when it feels right! Glad you’re enjoying it 👍🏾
I just ordered the m4 pro Mack book pro in space black nano texture screen with the upgraded CPU/GPU. 24gb 512. Waiting for it to arrive.
MB M4 pro 16’ 24gb 14c 2tb
Ableton, logic and fl studio dont currently take advantage of all performance cores, hopefully they will be updated to do so in the near future though, Cubase and reaper are the only ones that does right now.
I think Logic does use all of the Performance Cores but doesn't use the Efficiency Cores at all. So, the M4 Pro with 8 or 10 Performance Cores should be great.
And Pro Tools! 😊
I’m curious what you guys do for backing up files in case of an internal or external drive failure. Many suggest not paying for internal storage and using external. That’s fine, but then are you backing up what’s stored on an external drive.. onto another external drive? Isn’t that super tedious? Do you plug both drives into the Mac at the same time and manually make 2 copies of everything? Or do most pay for cloud storage and use that as a backup to the external drive? Internal and external drives do fail.. so again, how are y’all backing up years worth of files?
There is no one perfect way to backup. I use Time Machine for backing up my system drive. I use an HDD. I’ve had it for five years and has not given me any problems. If it would fail, most certainly it won’t be at the same time as the internal drive in my Mac Studio. So I would go get a new one and backup again. Why HDD and not SSD? Because if it fails most probably it can be saved. Most of the time it is a mechanical part failing and not the physical drive. All my audio files and sessions are always on external drives. When they get filled up I just put them in an anti-static bag and put them in a box. And if a client calls asking if I still have their material, I’ll tell them I do but can not say 100% the drive the audio is in wont fail, but they also should have a copy of what I have. I always send them through Dropbox a copy to download. It is not a perfect system but it has worked for me. I have drives as old as 10 years and still boot. And only one drive has failed me and it was over 15 years old and it was a cheap drive. And whatever got lost, there has nobody asking me for that material.
@ I appreciate the response. So is your computer’s internal drive massive to then be backing up on an external drive? If I’m understanding correct, you use the external for a backup to the internal, in case the internal fails- and those are the only 2 copies.
For myself, I’m debating the base 500gb internal, and saving most stuff like personal pics and vid’s to the external.. cuz I’d have 500gb filled in no time after 15yrs of files. So I’d store them there.. but then there’s just 1 original group of files (on the external HD).. and I’d have to then make an additional copy in case that drive fails (since none would be stored on the laptop’s internal drive). Such a headache.
audio is weird
Ye can only apologise - no idea what’s happened with it but will fix it for the next one hopefully business as usual!