MA356LL/A 1,1 for home studio recording?

[willyredeemed]

would the specs on this mac be sufficient for me to do home recording on? would be only tracking a couple tracks at a time...no more than 16 -20 tracks in all. planning on using reaper or garage band. or, should i look at other options?

http://www.macofalltrades.com/Apple-Mac-Pro-2x-3-0GHz-Dual-Core-4-Cores-p/mp-30-4c-e06a.htm

Apple Part Number: MA356LL/A

System configuration:
Two 3.0GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon 5160 processors
4.0GB (4x1.0GB) PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM, supports up to 32.0GB
500GB Serial ATA hard disk drive @ 7200RPM, includes four (4) drive trays
DVD-RW/CD-RW SuperDrive-DL
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB GDDR2 memory
No AirPort Extreme card
No Bluetooth
2- Dual-link DVI ports
5- USB ports
2- FireWire 400 ports
2- FireWire 800 ports
2- Ethernet ports
4- PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slots (video card installed in one)

 

[BigRed1]

I do close to that on my 2007 Mac mini with a Core Duo 1.83 and 2 gigs of RAM, so you should be fine with that machine. Doesn't Reaper have a demo? Give that and GarageBand a try. I think Logic is a great deal for $200. What kind of music do you plan on making?

 

[willyredeemed]

thanks for the info. reaper has a free demo...their interface is pretty legit. for recording, im mainly working on songs ala rock ballads, ambient, indie, acoustic, etc.

 

[ChrisA]

would the specs on this mac be sufficient for me to do home recording on? would be only tracking a couple tracks at a time...no more than 16 -20 tracks in all. ...

Yes that machine is overkill, more then you need but the price is right. I'd get more RAM. Also get a large size monitor 20 tracks uses a lot of screen space

Logic is the reason you are buying a Mac.

 

[willyredeemed]

Yeah @ logic. I plan to upgrade ram to at least 8gb...it was just cheaper for me to buy and install than have them do it.