Building a Home Recording Studio - Part 3, Digital Audio Workstations for Mac
We continue the discussion of Digital Audio Workstations (DAW). Last time I discussed some DAWs that I recommended for the PC. This time around, we’ll talk about the Mac. Most industry professional composers and arrangers prefer a Mac over a PC, it’s not different here in the Philippines.
Macs are usually more stable, and with stability comes reliable data integrity. You wouldn’t to accidentally lose those 16 bars you just recorded when the system crashes do you?
Digital Audio Workstations for Mac
Logic 8
Apple
Logic is the most recommend advanced DAW for any Apple user. It has a plethora of features and options that it’s quite confusing at first, and takes a while in getting used to. But once you learn how to use it, you will find a very powerful audio and midi sequencer with a large library of built-in samples. It has so many samples in fact that it takes 50 gigabytes of disk space.
Garageband
Apple
Garageband is a free, built-in DAW for new Mac machines. It is ready to use as soon as you open that new Macbook or iMac of yours. It has built-in softsynths and has a surprisingly extensive editing interface. It also has extra features such as Magic Garageband which lets you jam with preset genre loops, and Music Lessons which gives tips on how to play certain instruments.
There’s also a third category known as multiplatform DAWs. They are released for both PC and Mac. I will discuss this next.
Up next: Multi-platform Digital Audio Workstations.
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