ĭoing a bit of "practicing", folks who started doing music decades ago usually know at least something about busing and routing, if only how to connect an electric guitar to an amplifier and how to connect a microphone to a PA system. Īfter pondering it for a while and having an epiphany or two, I think "busing and routing" is one of the keys to digital music production and it's not something people typically include in technical books. When all that stuff is working, I plan to complete the chapters on (a) busing and routing and (b) ReWire MIDI strategy for my new book on digital music production, which might be finished and released this year. Last year, one of the studio monitors exploded and burst into flames during a thunderstorm so I'm replacing it, as well. I think this strategy will work and if it does then I'm happy with it. įor reference, there were some units with the same processors (dual 2.8-GHz 4-Core XEON), but this one has the better video card and a 250GB SSD drive, hence is more attractive overall. If it costs $750 (US) for all the hardware, then that's reasonable for a supercomputer, even one that's 12 years-old and only runs macOS El Capitan but nothing higher. Then I will work on determining what is not working on the old one.
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My thinking is that I can put the old hard drives in the new Mac Pro (Early 2008) and be mostly back in business-other than perhaps needing to reactivate some digital music production software. Īnd I plan to get a new internal hard drive to do a full-backup with SuperDuper! (Shirt Pocket) once everything is working. ĭepending on how everything goes, I am thinking about getting an ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB video card, which apparently is twice as fast as the ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB video card. Same thing for the replacement internal hard drive and SSD drive-nice, although the SSD drive is intriguing. The replacement Mac Pro (Early 2008) has 12GB of system memory, but I don't care about it so much, (a) because I have at least one memory card with 16GB that is working and perhaps a second one but regardless, system memory is not expensive. It's a 2.8-GHz 8-core Mac Pro (Early 2008) with an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB video card and a 2TB hard drive and 250GB SSD drive. It's always good to have contingency plans and in this instance the contingency plan is to get another Mac Pro (Early 2008) with the same primary specifications, which is what I did yesterday for $476 (US) on eBay, including FedEx Ground shipping and sales tax. There are four internal hard drives, and it's likely all of them are working with no problems. Īll that comes to mind are (a) blasting the inside with pressurized air (perhaps a naughty bit of dust somewhere) and (b) removing and reinstalling the system memory and video card (ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB) but I'm not certain it will do anything. It gets past the initial boot "chime" and then the screen goes white and nothing else happens. The Mac Pro (Early 2008) here in the sound isolation studio stopped working about a few days ago, and none of the usual remedies worked. One might suggest it was inevitable that the Mac Pro (Early 2008) here in the sound isolation studio would stop working.