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Re: Best Thunderbolt Interface?
I must concur with VRW here. That sounds like a rockin' system. And it can be a "closed" system without an external drive. All your sessions and VIs can live on that 1TB flash internal. Just make sure you backup everything routinely, and do it beyond Time Machine. Have an external HDD, or even a portable SSD. I recently bought a Samsung T5. Amazing little guy. 500 gigs of bus-powered backup. It's the size of a credit card and totally silent.
My big HDD spinners with their fans and AC power cables have met an early retirement.
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Do you think the solo will have enough DSP power? I will only be using one input at a time for Mic and vocals or guitar as my music is mainly based on rock/pop. My songs normally don’t consist of more than fifteen to twenty tracks. Will be using the included UA preamps, EQs and reverbs going in to put less strain on the computer and will be using the latest version of EZ Drummer for my beats. Would it be better to pay the extra for the Duo, even a second hand unit? Have been previously using 11R as my interface so expecting an improvement in sound quality for the outlay. Concerning the 8GB of ram with the iMac. This comes as standard but I’ve been advised not to purchase the extra ram through Apple as I can get it cheaper elsewhere on such sites such as crucial.com so will be upgrading the memory to 16GB for now and to 32GB when I can afford to. The iMac I’m getting has a capacity of 64GB so should be future proof for a while. Including the Apple Care and interface I’m looking at around £3800 outlay. It’s taken me quite a while to save that but hopefully it will be many years before I need that type of outlay again? I had looked at the new iMac Pro but financially unaffordable to me at nearly five grand for the basic model. Last edited by Sting; 02-02-2018 at 03:19 AM. |
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As for mixing with a Solo, you'd have to choose carefully what to use. This chart would help. https://help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/art...Instance-Chart |
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Haven't done vocals with it yet, but in initial mic tests it sounds like a Twin. |
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Thanks DR and DM for the sound advice.
Just as a matter of interest has anyone used the Presonus Quantum yet and what do they think of it? |
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I am sick and tired of hearing how great Apollo's are. They are only great if you use their plugins on there console application. Which is useless if you want to use tons of VI's! The only argument I hear from Apollo users is that their plug-ins are good. Which is true they make some of the best sounding emulations. The way I look at it is that if you buy a Quantum for low latency purposes and buy a UAD Octo Satellite you get the best of both worlds for less |
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