Ipad 2 or new computer for Garageband? new home studio - Help
Any advice would be great. I built a home studio loft in an old barn in my yard. Problem is my main computer (imac) that I do all my work on has to stay in the house (we all use it - family) SO .. I have to decide what to record on in the studio. I have an ipad 2 .. do I by the interface for it? Use it to recoed, and then trasfer the garageband files /recordings from the ipad to my imac in the house ... and do my editing there? Or do I look for a 3 year old macbook or some type of used Apple computer for the studio?
PS .. my set up curently is
imac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Garageband 09 ver. 5.1
TASCAM US-144 usb audio interface
MXL V63M - MIC
Then obviosly all my live instuments including a Roland TD4 drum kit (that is not easy to mix once recorded - kick drum)
My studio monitors or SAMSON USB Studio dock ... and they are not great
Any advice/coments on the equipment would be great too .. thanks eveyone
John
jvmix wrote:
Could I record with that and as you say .. do the heavy lifting in the house on the imac
if you already have it, try it and see how the workflow is.
the caution is that this too is a one way street: the new version of GB on the iMac will open the older files, but once you save them you won't be able to open the newly saved files on the old machnie in the old version of GB
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