That’s nice if you put it in the same room where you produce and record your music. Many desktop MACs are very quiet to work. Each PC is a different cluster of variables, while the new iMac from Apple has a very large reserve of power for real-time processing.Īnother consideration to keep in mind is that these computers generate some noise. To record some audio tracks in your home, you do not have a heavy system, but you might use many VSTi and VST plugins so you need a good CPU (processor) and at least 4GM of RAM. Fortunately, most (but not all) soft synths, effects plugins, and soft samplers work on both platforms. But there’s more…īoth platforms can work with Ableton, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Pro Tools, Reaper, Bitwig Studio, Digital Performer, and a few others. The MAC has Logic, GarageBand, Peak, Soundtrack Pro. The PC has Sonar, Sound Forge, Adobe Audition. Both platforms have software that runs only on that particular system. Today, most PCs are very powerful and theoretically suitable for making music and recording music. Many audio and video file types work perfectly on both, such as WAV, AIF, MP3, MOV, AVI, MP4, so it’s quite easy to transfer them from one to another. Very often it happens to work on different projects that were built in specific music programs (MAC or Windows). Today it is hard to say which is more popular.Ī good, professional studio just needs to have both a Mac and a PC. After the 2000’s things have changed, so have appeared more and more computers running on Windows, perhaps because it is cheaper and easier to upgrade. It is known that in the 90 Apple’s MAC machine dominate the music studios. Let’s get back to our main subject… MAC or PC? Any modern DAW is good as long as you manage to master it, it is like a wild horse that needs to be tamed. It is very similar when people ask me: What is the best music production software / DAW for music production? The best music production software is the one you learn and know best.

“MAC or PC? Which is the best for Music Production?” My answer is always: “Buy a good system” for both Apple and a (good) PC, as long as it works for you!” Many questions from music producers are whether they just have to take an Apple Mac computer or a Windows PC. The heart of most home studios is the computer, the sacred place where we keep all our music programs, samples, and plug-ins.

Mac mini for home recording studio