IMac Pro or UA Apollo 8

[Becharax]

iMac Pro !! It's the core of your system

[Courtlaw]

Originally Posted by John_Toolbox

I went through a similar dilemma a few months ago, I upgraded from a 2009 i7 iMac with 16gb ram. The iMac i9 has loud fans compared to the other choices, so you can narrow it down between iMac Pro and trash can unless fan noise doesn’t bother you.

iMac Pro advantages include thunderbolt 3 (faster than thunderbolt 2 and more choices for external enclosures), really nice monitor and slightly more CPU power.

The trash can Mac Pro is cheaper even after buying monitors and a thunderbolt drive dock, and even though it’s 7 year old technology, it’s still a beast of a computer, and runs nearly silent.

I ended up getting a Mac Pro for $1600, it had 64gb ram, 6 core and 512MB SSD. I bought a thunderbolt 2 drive dock from OWC and that seems to great for my needs. I love that I can swap drives quickly for backup purposes, and run both 3.5 drives and 2.5 ssd in it. It runs the 2.5 SSDs at their max speed, which is not as fast as the internal ssd of the Mac Pro but fine for streaming samples or recording audio.

Good advice thanks!

BTW - Without ears or other sensory perception to hear or feel the midi file then there is no sound. You are simply left with energy that is not interpreted.