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Hi Guys
I wanted to know if anyone has done a stable build with Sierra or High Sierra for audio and video. My old Mac Pro is basically dead. I'd like a setup that can run Digital Performer and Adobe CC (photoshop, after effects, premier or FCPX) with a modern audio Interface, fast processor (or dual CPU) with lots of cores, and ideally 128GB of RAM. I was looking at the MOTU 828es interface which is Thunderbolt 2 as a good interface that can handle the IO I need.
At first I was going to just setup a Windows workstation because I'm sick of Apple making overpriced non-pro systems and for graphics work I could build a dual Xeon v4 beast that would be more powerful, but then I won't be able to open my music projects—according to MOTU, DP8 or DP9 won't recognize my virtual instruments and plug-ins since they are AU and not VST, so if I open projects on Windows I'd have to rebuild the setups and automation which is not practical. I also don't like Windows in general and prefer Mac OS for how it works and its stability, but I'm not sure if I can setup a Hackintosh system, let alone one that will work with modern audio hardware that runs over Thunderbolt 2 for the lowest latency.
For the photo and video work I do, I could also use more than one thunderbolt port so I can use some of the fast M.2 external thunderbolt 3 drives that give no daisy chaining but have high data rates, like the Sonnet Fusion 2,600MB/s drive and OWC Envoy. If that's not possible I may be able to get away with using more M.2 on the motherboard, but most motherboards I see start disabling SATA ports when you add more than 1 M.2 drive and I have 10TB of existing storage across 4 drives and would like 2 blu ray burners in the machine.
Add to the fact that dual Xeon v4 setups don't seem to work for hackintosh so I'm stuck using older single cpu setups.
Any advice is welcome. I need to get a new machine setup so I can work, but I feel like a man without an OS at this point.
I wanted to know if anyone has done a stable build with Sierra or High Sierra for audio and video. My old Mac Pro is basically dead. I'd like a setup that can run Digital Performer and Adobe CC (photoshop, after effects, premier or FCPX) with a modern audio Interface, fast processor (or dual CPU) with lots of cores, and ideally 128GB of RAM. I was looking at the MOTU 828es interface which is Thunderbolt 2 as a good interface that can handle the IO I need.
At first I was going to just setup a Windows workstation because I'm sick of Apple making overpriced non-pro systems and for graphics work I could build a dual Xeon v4 beast that would be more powerful, but then I won't be able to open my music projects—according to MOTU, DP8 or DP9 won't recognize my virtual instruments and plug-ins since they are AU and not VST, so if I open projects on Windows I'd have to rebuild the setups and automation which is not practical. I also don't like Windows in general and prefer Mac OS for how it works and its stability, but I'm not sure if I can setup a Hackintosh system, let alone one that will work with modern audio hardware that runs over Thunderbolt 2 for the lowest latency.
For the photo and video work I do, I could also use more than one thunderbolt port so I can use some of the fast M.2 external thunderbolt 3 drives that give no daisy chaining but have high data rates, like the Sonnet Fusion 2,600MB/s drive and OWC Envoy. If that's not possible I may be able to get away with using more M.2 on the motherboard, but most motherboards I see start disabling SATA ports when you add more than 1 M.2 drive and I have 10TB of existing storage across 4 drives and would like 2 blu ray burners in the machine.
Add to the fact that dual Xeon v4 setups don't seem to work for hackintosh so I'm stuck using older single cpu setups.
Any advice is welcome. I need to get a new machine setup so I can work, but I feel like a man without an OS at this point.