Besides that osx updates are notorious for killing various audio software and plugins. So besides the tonymac guys Id also gives the devs of any plugins/hosts your using time to figure it out as well.
At this point I sort of gave up on the hackintosh, ran it for a few months, not really gaining anything software/stability/interface wise and sometimes just being pissed at osx when trying to do stuff. So the drive got wiped and sent back to backup duty
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http://www.million-dollar-pc.com/sys...dark-blade.htm
i personally saw this PC in real life at Quakecon 2 years ago.
Originally Posted by Archon
Updates on the machine Alan? How's it running?
Traktor SP2 | Audio 10 DJ | DJM 800 Rotary | Kontrol S4 | 1200 M3D's | Shure M44G's | NI Kontrol X1 | KRK RP8's | Yamaha HS80M | Ableton Live 8 | M-Audio FW 410 | Akai MPK 61 | NI Maschine MKI
Running perfectly. Haven't had a single issue with it!
Hey hadgi I'm just curious as to what music software you primarily use? I have been debating on building a hackintosh purely for speed issues. Just before summer I bought a 2GHz i7 quad-core mac mini and put 16 gigs of ram into it, with 2 big internal hard drives inside.
This thing has saved my life for live music performances I need to because it's just so damn small and reliable. I used to use a receptor live (for people who know don't know, it's like a music pc in a rack but it's big and expensive for what it is) So I decided to use my mac mini for the same purpose instead and never looked back. Now the mac mini is fast, but not fast enough for my music set up. When you have ableton set to 128 sample buffer size to ensure that vocals and midi come in with low latency, it really can eat at the cpu.
I decided that I would design a 2 mac system (doesn't matter if one is a hackintosh, as long as it works). The mac mini would be my stage keyboards' "dedicated computer" (picture a big action weighted midi keyboard, on a big stand, with an lcd on an arm connected to it, hooked up to my mac mini) that would have a low sample rate, so that it could handle vocals, powerful vsts, and effects live WHILE connected to a more powerful mother mac that handles production styled plugins and other things that would slow down my mac mini by itself too much. The software I rely on is Protools, Albeton Live, Reason, Native Instruments Suite, Spectrasonics, Fabfilter Suite, and others but those are my main dogs.
Sorry for all the info but I saw your post today and I'm really curious to see what you're experience has been with it? I would love the speed of a hackintosh
Looks like all your software can be run on a Windows PC so why not use that?
Hewlett Packard the backbone of Apple data centers.
I will not read anything in Comic sans
I'm just not a windows guy at all, and I have a bunch of music software I bought that is mac compatible only because I didn't pay for the windows versions. I have nothing against windows pc's or people using them, so don't take me the wrong way. I just have the worst experience with them always, unless I'm using them as a game machine.
Ableton. Along with some Kontakt plugins. Ive had up to like 10 instances of session strings pro and a host of tracks and synths and have still not run into an issue. Tbh, i havent even touched my buffer size, and dont even know what that does lol. Runs like a dream though!
Actually, I also do intensive video and after effects work (well, amateurly hehe). Which is probably more CPU intensive than music, and it flies also.
As for getting a windows machine... Sure, that's an option. However, as much as I despise apple as a company, I just can't tear myself away from OS X. Windows is more than capable if I decided to go that route, but all my software is already mac, and i dont feel like figurig out how to get windows version and downloading etc etc. So there it is. The operating system really should be the last thing to hold you back, since they both do the same thing; I just chose to keep OS X but pay less for more performance.
As I mentioned before though, it is very seriously easy to underestimate the amount of work necessary to make OS X able to run on a hackintosh. I even followed the hardware recommendations and installation instructions to a T, and it still took days of googling and hunting down forum posts to get drivers to work right (most issues resulted from my graphics card, so I'd suggest researching what seems to be the most hassle-free card from the forum posts). On the upside though, you will learn an incredible amount of tech knowledge, granted you aren't in the tech field. That plus a sense of accomplishment is one of the big perks imo.
If I would've ordered a Mac Pro built to the specs my computer is at, I would've spent well over $3000. You'll see I spent way, waaay less than that, and have more ports than a Mac will ever come with.
In a nutshell, with the machine I have it will definitely satisfy my needs for 3-4 years. Unless for some reason plugs get super complex inexplicably? But yeah def one of the better investments I've made
Ugh updated OS X and my 2nd monitor is outhere goes two hunting down the issue
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