Hi. I would like music producers to give me recommendations on producing music on Windows or Mac, since I have read so many discussions about Windows and Mac, and they all agree that if you are a musician, it is best to use Mac, but they do not give more details. So in my case I use Reaper, and it is really very accessible on Windows, but the latency (even with audio interfaces) is usually almost unbearable, especially in MIDI recordings, and it is possible that this simply does not exist on Mac. Another thing is the accessibility of the plugins, for example Kontakt. Although it is not accessible on Windows, at least I can load libraries, which I have not been able to do on Mac, even using VOCR. PS: I have only tried it on MacOS15.1 and Kontakt 8.
What other libraries are accessible? Like guitars, pianos, basses, drums and others?
Another thing: is it possible to load the main stage instruments in Reaper? And finally, what are the best arguments for why Mac is the best for producing music? I really appreciate your comments!
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Yes, definitely
I have the exact same question. As a prospective Berklee College student, I'll need to use a Mac. Although I had a 10-month experience with a Mac as my school laptop during my exchange year, I no longer have one to test things. So, is Logic Pro fully accessible? And how do music folks like it?
What I have tried so far is
I want to add comments as I do my tests, and I have news.
At least in Reaper, while I couldn't load a library in Kontakt, I was at least able to successfully install and load the SSD5.5 drum kit, and the Arturia v3 piano. In both cases I was able to change presets, although for the drum kit it was necessary to use VOCR. I also want to add that the piano roll in Reaper is just awesome! So I was able to do the same things as in Windows, such as quantizing and shifting notes and chords to the right or left.
also, when recording with a midi keyboard (in my case yamaha) the latency is lower than in windows, and above all, it doesn’t happen to me what happens with windows, where when recording, it doesn’t sound exactly as you played it, but it sounds a bit strange, so much so that it forces you to quantize, which according to the little time i have trying on macos doesn’t happen, but what you record is exactly as you recorded it, of course it is a bit ahead, so you just move everything to the right a bit, and it is original, without the need to quantize, which helps the music sound as natural as possible. i will keep adding things as i learn, so stay tuned! i’m sorry if my english isn’t good, i’m actually using google. again thanks to everyone for reading and contributing, as i’m sure many here can provide very valuable opinions.
Logic.Band
You’ll find everything you need to know at www.logic.band and the YouTube channel of the same name. There are extensive tutorials on pretty much every subject, and Steve walks you through them all in a concise and clear Manner. Hope that helps.
couple of things
Reaper is great on both windows and mac and some plugins are accessible and some are kind of not. With that being said, I find it hard that noone has mentioned ableton yet which just got accessibillity added in a vary big way. Logic is good too however, it's been gradually kind of, going down hill however, you can still do most if not all the things with a bit of fidddeling round. What I do like about logic is it's stock sounds and plugins for just $200 you'll get all of that. I'm honestly thinking about bying ableton and dissing logic, at least for midi editing and some basic editing stuff but logic still has a vary great place in my heart that's for sure. So is reaper. I always say, there's nothing wrong with using multiple daws to get the job done and whatever you do in one daw, you may find you do better in another. For example, if I edint podcasts or what not, reaper all the way as I can freely edit on the fly and have an hour edit down in about 10 to 15 minutes. Logic is a bit cumbersome when it comes to that sort of thing. Time is money.