Some Advice For A Mac Newbie :), Not sure if this system will work well.. Options

[Tophicles]

Greetings all!

I've been a PC user for decades, and have always been curious about the mac Audio scene (since everything seems to have spawned there).

In the past I had not been able to afford to buy the hardware necessary to setup a mac in my home studio, this, it seems has changed.

I have recently acquired a dual G4-5ooMhz, 512Mb RAM. My ST-Audio C-2000 card will transplant into it for audio.

My question is, will this system be sufficient for multtrack recording? Please excuse my ignorance, I really have no idea.

Any help would be appreciated....

-Me.

[rickenbacker]

Being a dual-processor Mac, it should fare better at multitracking audio than a single processor Mac would. Don't get carried away with the thought of recording 72-piece orchestras live or anything, but I'd say you can definitely put together some full mixes on there.

Get Logic and use the Freeze function on tracks as you go along (this slashes the CPU load) and you'll get a lot of life out of that Mac. 1 Giant Leap used that exact same Mac to mix the audio for their world-music project. If you hear the CD, you'll realise what can be achieved. On a G4 DP 500MHz Mac, everything was mixed in Logic, using Logic's internal plugs and nothing else - and that was only version 5. You'll want to max that Mac out on RAM, though.