Find great deals on eBay for mac mini recording studio. Shop with confidence. Hi everyone, So for the past two years i've been recording out of my macbook pro 2.66 dual processor, 8 gigs of ram, a 500 gb hd @ 5400 rpm, and i replaced the optical drive with a 500 gb hd @ 7200 rpm.
Part racehorse. All workhorse.
For an affordable option in a Mac computer, beginning recording artists might consider the Mac Mini—a small, desktop box that connects to an external monitor and delivers all the features musicians love about Macs. Mac Mini Size. When building a home studio one thing to consider is size, the Mac Mini has one of the smallest footprints out there, so can sit on a desk and hardly be noticed. Mac Mini Fan Noise In The Studio. The Mac Mini is whisper quiet, in fact far quieter than the older Mac Pro silver tower. The Mac includes two easy methods of recording external audio without the need for any additional software, QuickTime Player and GarageBand. QuickTime Player Ever since QuickTime Player X was released, it has provided some very simple ways of recording audio from external audio devices.
In addition to being a great desktop computer, Mac mini powers everything from home automation to giant render farms. And now with eighth-generation Intel quad-core and 6-core processors and Intel UHD Graphics 630, Mac mini has even more compute power for industrial-grade tasks. So whether you’re running a live concert sound engine or testing your latest iOS app, Mac mini is the shortest distance between a great idea and a great result.
Climb in. Geek out.
Mac mini features high-performance 2666MHz DDR4 SO-DIMM memory for faster rendering, working with massive files, or running multiple virtual machines. And now you can configure even more memory — up to 64GB — to run even heavier workloads.
Haul apps.
Mac mini now includes all-flash PCIe-based storage, with up to four times the read speeds of previous flash options. So you can load giant files and launch apps faster than ever — and with the available 2TB SSD, you’ll have twice the space for all of them.
I/O, I/O, it’s off to work you go.
Mac Mini Home Recording Studio
With a variety of ports, Mac mini is ready for a variety of workflow configurations. Thunderbolt 3 is our most powerful and versatile port ever — and Mac mini has four of them. The new HDMI 2.0 port delivers more bandwidth than its predecessor, so you can enjoy faster frame rates. And now Mac mini can be configured with 10Gb Ethernet so it's ready to move mountainous files and monstrous data up to 10 times faster.
Thunderbolt 3 gives you some seriously productive possibilities. Transfer data at up to 40Gb/s. Charge and power external devices. Connect up to two 4K displays — and even a third with HDMI 2.0 — or one 5K display. Or pair Mac mini with an eGPU for desktop-class graphics performance.
Mac mini Features:
Mac Mini Desktop Recording Studio
Powerful 3.0GHz (Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz) 6-core Intel Core i5 and 8GB memory fuel your apps
Ultra-fast 256 SSD and Thunderbolt 3 connections speed up your workflow
Intel UHD Graphics 630 and HDMI 2.0 output support up to three displays