Best MOBO/CPU for Audio Productions on latest release?

[mainardistefano]

Hi to all,

i've searched a lot in the forum and in the wiki, but i don't have found information for my needs.

 

I want buy a cheap system, for Audio Production on OSX (Guitar Rig, Logic Pro, ProTools, Reason and VST).

I'm bit confused about the MotherBoard that i must buy for a perfect fully functional system, with all HW I/O sounds enabled, i've M-Audio firewire sound card.

 

I want to buy a Celeron D800 (Dual-Core) with a 945chipset Mobo, but what Motherboards you advised for me?

 

There's anyone that use OSX86 for audio Production?

 

Please help me,

best regards to all

 

p.s. : sorry for my poor English, i'm Italian.

[chick]

Hi to all,

i've searched a lot in the forum and in the wiki, but i don't have found information for my needs.

 

I want buy a cheap system, for Audio Production on OSX (Guitar Rig, Logic Pro, ProTools, Reason and VST).

I'm bit confused about the MotherBoard that i must buy for a perfect fully functional system, with all HW I/O sounds enabled.

 

I want to buy a Celeron D800 (Dual-Core) with a 945chipset Mobo, but what Motherboards you advised for me?

 

There's anyone that use OSX86 for audio Production?

 

Please help me,

best regards to all

 

p.s. : sorry for my poor English, i'm Italian.

 

Hi,

 

I'm a musician and I am currently working with Cubase SX3 on Windows XP, unfortunately. If you are willing to do music production on a hackintosh be aware that very few pro audio applications have been ported to universal binary, same thing for drivers ...

 

Like you i'd like to switch to OSX86 but for the moment i don't think it's the right choice. Anyway, if you want to run OSX86 flawlessly, any 945G mobo will do fine (QE & CI working for intel graphics). Obviously, the integrated sound cards won't be enough for what you want to do, and there are no drivers for PCI devices (quite logical, though). I know that MOTU and M Audio have released drivers for their firewire interfaces.

 

Also, i'm not sure a celeron is powerful enough for audio processing and virtual instruments. Sure it will depend on your needs, but a pentium D would be much better if you can afford it.

 

Have a look at the hardware compatibility list in the osx86project wiki.

 

Cheers

 

p.s.:Sorry for my English, i'm French

 

 

By the way , do you think the new intel power macs will support PCI cards ? i would be very frustrated if i can't use my existing pci audio interface ...