This weeks featured Mac setup is the awesome home recording studio of Steve Steele, a professional film composer, musician, and band leader, with some very beefy Apple gear and loads of great music equipment.This isn’t your average home recording studio though, there’s better music gear and hardware here then you’ll find in many professional studios, so let’s dive in and learn a bit. The Apple Mac mini packs more power than ever, thanks to fourth-generation Intel Core processors. It also comes with integrated Intel Iris Graphics, Thunderbolt 2, USB 3, and the latest release of OS X - the world's most advanced desktop operating system. For an affordable option in a Mac computer, beginning recording artists might consider the Mac Mini—a small, desktop box that connects to an external monitor and delivers all the features musicians love about Macs.
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- Home Recording Studio Build It Like The Pros
(Second Edition) by Rod Gervais . This book teaches you how to do all these things, from building a professional home studio to saving thousands of dollars in the process.
- Home Recording Studio Build It Like The Pros
(Second Edition) by Rod Gervais . This book teaches you how to do all these things, from building a professional home studio to saving thousands of dollars in the process.
Part racehorse. All workhorse.
In addition to being a great desktop computer, Mac mini powers everything from home automation to giant render farms. And now with eighth-generation Intel quad-core and 6-core processors and Intel UHD Graphics 630, Mac mini has even more compute power for industrial-grade tasks. So whether you’re running a live concert sound engine or testing your latest iOS app, Mac mini is the shortest distance between a great idea and a great result.
Climb in. Geek out.
Mac Mini For Recording Studio
Mac mini features high-performance 2666MHz DDR4 SO-DIMM memory for faster rendering, working with massive files, or running multiple virtual machines. And now you can configure even more memory — up to 64GB — to run even heavier workloads.
Haul apps.
Mac mini now includes all-flash PCIe-based storage, with up to four times the read speeds of previous flash options. So you can load giant files and launch apps faster than ever — and with the available 2TB SSD, you’ll have twice the space for all of them.
I/O, I/O, it’s off to work you go.
Mac Mini For Home Recording Studio
With a variety of ports, Mac mini is ready for a variety of workflow configurations. Thunderbolt 3 is our most powerful and versatile port ever — and Mac mini has four of them. The new HDMI 2.0 port delivers more bandwidth than its predecessor, so you can enjoy faster frame rates. And now Mac mini can be configured with 10Gb Ethernet so it's ready to move mountainous files and monstrous data up to 10 times faster.
Thunderbolt 3 gives you some seriously productive possibilities. Transfer data at up to 40Gb/s. Charge and power external devices. Connect up to two 4K displays — and even a third with HDMI 2.0 — or one 5K display. Or pair Mac mini with an eGPU for desktop-class graphics performance.
Mac mini Features:
- Powerful 3.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i3 and 8GB memory fuel your apps
- Ultra-fast 256 SSD and Thunderbolt 3 connections speed up your workflow
- Intel UHD Graphics 630 and HDMI 2.0 output support up to three displays
- Additional I/O for USB-A (USB 3.0), 10Gb Ethernet, 1/8' headphone onboard
- Includes Mac mini and power cable