Windows 7 and 10 have been a dream for me. I might have tried mac but I like the freedom with a windows desktop. Can upgrade and add components internally. Add more RAM, storage etc. The upgrade pricing on apple ram and storage is grand larceny and I'm surprised apple users put up with it. Plus I've known people with macs that they couldn't afford to get fixed, guess they didn't have APpplecare+. The M chips are incredibly impressive, but being tethered to hardware you can't touch, upgrade or repair, its a nope for me. When they let you have control over your hardware I might take a dive.

Hi Barry, I work on Nuendo as well and just got the fireface. Would you be open to do support? If so, what would be the best way to communicate with you. Thanks, Avli.

You did a great job on your tutorials! I have upgraded to another rme! You are right about there reverb!

You can literally do more with any DAW over reel to reel tape, cassette tape, or Hard Disk recorder. This means you can make professional albums with Garageband, Bandlab, Audacity, etc. All those free DAWs can literally do more than anything reel to reel tape, cassette tape, or hard disk recorders could ever do. People never knock reel to reel or hard disk recorders, but they will call Garageband, Bandlab, and Audacity toys. Utter nonsense. If you know what you are doing, you can make professional albums with Garageband, Bandlab, Audacity, or any DAW.

Trying using Photopea. It is identical to Adobe Photoshop, so much so I cannot believe the creator isn't sued. Same look, same buttons, same function, same everything. ANDDDDD, it is FREE!

Windows sucks all by itself as an OS. Mac is lightyears ahead in user experience.

i need help connecting record player to ucx!! any recommendations n connecting 2 sets of monitors i cant get figure it out 😅any recommendations no one talking about it 😢

Spec by spec: I've never heard someone be so confidently wrong rofl. I can build two or three windows 10/11 desktops for the same price as one mac pro tower. Yikes.

ciao waves

They are greedy same as Adobe, unfortunately I have to have Adobe as I use Photoshop, Premier Pro, Audition and Character animator for my Spanner & Spoon comedy show but I use Cubase as my DAW and would be lost without it!

Not just for ability, but the fact that the hardware and software is built by the same company, and much of the system is specifically designed to handle media workflows, a Mac running a Mac OS is the optimal system for recording and mixing audio. Blending together software, CPU’s and sound cards yourself is a recipe for hiccups and incompatibility (PC). You *can*record and mix audio on either, but if you want to work out of the box and work trouble free there’s just one choice.

I like the way you think.

One caveat is I would say if you are building a PC do a lot of research if you are using Thunderbolt. Some Mother Boards are better than others at implementing TB and AMD processors especially have issues with it. Other than that... PC is great for audio, video and 3d Production machines.

WindDoze is great if you like to fiddle with the OS instead of recording.

Love Cubase and have used windows and mac for 30 odd years, I am also a business IT Consultant. I was pushed by a snobbish pro musician to buy 6k worth of Mac gear and absolutely hated it back in 2017 I managed to put together a higher spec PC for 3k so I disagree with you about pricing but agree that the systems are both fine. The biggest problems are snobbish musicians and artists that say you Must use a Mac to be thought of as professional. We moved a 20 strong design department from Mac to PC at their request and saved them thousands. Surprisingly they all loved the change and said that they were more productive using windows. They all wanted to go duel screen and Mac options at that point of time were extremely expensive.

It's so funny how I tell everyone exactly what you said about producing music back in the seventies and eighties that nobody used external preamps and no one ever believes me they just cannot even conceive of not having all of this external gear . you better listen to us old guys we know we're talking about😊

You can build a much faster windows machine than a mac one, but it is going to cost you. Some workstations (and servers) I have worked on (some does AI work) is far superior to a mac, ok some servers are running linux. In the AI world where you need all the power you can get you have massive amounts of memory, cpu and graphics card power. But they are way, way more expensive than a mac. In the cloud you can do even more by scaling out, but talking about physical local machines here. That said, I use both for music.

It would be great if my PC ran Pro Tools 10. =(

Digidesign threw their early customers under the bus. If I'd been given a workable way to go to PT, I would've. But they opted to get more $$$ out of us Sound Tools 2 guys by forcing new hardware purchases. From them, of course. But a subscription with their "descendants" at Avid? No and hell no. Using a subscription package for the tools you REQUIRE for your work is sorta like having some jackass from Tool Inc. show up at your job and take YOUR tools away while you're using them. And that clown won't give 'em back unless you give him money. Eh...at least it's easier than most muggings. Never use subscriptionware, guys. That's pretty much how it works. Let's say your key "hall reverb" for a project is working...until PING!... it's not. Now your project is either going to take a bunch more work...or you simply CAN'T HAVE IT...because of one lousy reverb plug-in that happened to be a subscription. Yay. Solution? Simple. If you subscribe to it, it is NOT yours. You may NOT use it if you don't pay up or if they change the AUP or...worst of all...the company goes under and when your sub comes up, you don't get a key to stop the subscription. You are then SCREWED. Happens quite a bit, actually. Anyone remember BIAS Peak? For its time, it was a killer mixdown/editing/mastering DAW. And then BIAS faw down go boom. Thankfully, I was able to get an install and a key sequence for my next install, but damn... that's no way to work. But there's one more horror...if the company opts to go non-commercial only use for that product. Then other annoying things open up, like a huge pile of question marks about the content and "could this get me sued?" Always go for lifetime purchases. Always. If you encounter something cool that's hobbled with a subscription only business model, just keep looking... because a better and FAIRER solution is inevitably out there.

You need to make notes and have your video in clear and concise points. I probably would have watched the entire thing if it had that. Which points do I disagree with? Which ones do I agree with? This is a 15 minutes video that goes on and on.

I agree avid is ridiculous that why I use studio one pro

What hardware do you have for your vocal chain & what plugin do you used in your vocal chain

Love your videos Barry ! Very knowledgeable and honest. I have been doing some research on this unit, some users on Mac. Are stating a lot of latency. (Over 0.6 ms). Your opinion would be greatly appreciated. Thanx. Keep up the awesome videos

As an atheist, I can let people believe in their gods. I have no need to prove them wrong, because I an confortable in my atheism and, if somebody needs a god to bear the darkness, who am I to judge their cooing mechanism. Evangelical atheism is an absurdity perpetuated by people afraid they're wrong. At best, you're abusing your free speech, at worst, you're making a holy war of not having a religion.

I am very surprised that you claim Apple has a reputation for breaking systems with OS updates. In my experience it’s been the total opposite. Windows likes to try and automate everything for you. The number of times I’ve had friends say windows update just automatically update my audio drivers and broke Cubase! I find Mac systems will always prompt you about updates and it’s clearer in the settings on whether you want auto security updates etc

I can't agree with you on few thing. Since Q1 of 2007 Linux is my daily driver. In contradiction to windblowzer or mac os, it can revive a lot of old machines. Hence, "Both wnblowzer and mac ooh-ez suck!" Also apple's machines holds no candle to 8-bit computers when it comes to a re-sale value. It's not a significant factor in PC market. You shouldn't use it, as PCs are not guitars. We all know that many guitarists will look at headstock, when buying a new axe. Yet Jack Pearson plays live on a entry level Squier Bullet strat. Look at this example. A mac mini with only 2 cores from 2014 goes in Poland for around 250 bucks. I bought Atari 800 XL 2 years ago. For 200 dollars. In other words I can make a statement that some PCs are just better than the others, even if they will cost you less. ;) Just look how old that machine is. It 's been out there for 40 years, and goes for almost same price as mac mini. But that's not all. A mere Lenovo m720q can have a lower re-sale value than that 2014's mini as well, yet it has 6 cores and you can use OpenCore with it. Everything works. Audio, graphics, wifi, bluetooth. And it has 6 cores, not 2. A 2 core 2014's mac mini for $250 vs 6 cored ThinkCentre M720 from around 2018, that costs $150. Both run Mac OS. That's a no brainer.

Consumer is king

Here’s the hill I will continue to stand on. You’re 100% right about what “can be done”. The part that hasn’t changed is the working in major facilities (both music and post). If that’s the goal that someone has for their career, then they have to know Pro Tools. Now you don’t necessarily need to own it, but how do you learn something you dont have and use regularly?

Big Like from "ISRAEL" !!

As someone who has built and worked on computer systems for years, I have to disagree on the Mac vs PC price commentary. If you want more RAM or storage on a Mac the markup is absolutely staggering and you only get to make that decision once. For PC (whether desktop or laptop) it’s so cheap in comparison it’s almost comical. Pricing between PCs and Macs is only “similar” if you go with the base model. This also plays into the value retention commentary. I can buy and deck out two PCs for the price of one decked out Mac. 70% value retention is not a draw in this scenario. There are a lot of reasons to go with a Mac (I have several in my household), but price is not one of them. Apple takes the “L” here.

Rent is rip off even on plug-in bundles…

Wow, I'm really surprised I didn't see any of the Tascam Model series in here! For a home studio the Model 12 or Model 16 is a fantastic option! I have a Model 24 I use for my live work and it's freaking fantastic. I can even run Waves SuperRack Performer with it so I'm using many of the same tools I use in my studio, live. It really makes it a game changer! The pre amps sound amazing. The compressor is a one knob compressor but it has a very similar sound to the compressor you would find on the Big Six. I know this because I have a 500 series Six Channel strip which has the compressor on it. The EQ is also fully featured as well. Now the Model 24 is the only one in the line with a fully analog signal path but I don't think that matter much honestly. The Model 12 and Model 16 only have analog inputs. Everything after it is digital but again, they both still sound great. I get what you are going for here. A smaller setup with only a few channels but I do think the Model series would be more "in line" with the Big Six.

Yep, after my 2012 Mac Pro died I switched over to a Tascam Model 24 with outboard gear and couldn’t be happier. Printing my mix to a Tascam Dp-03 which has mastering functionality, after 20 years of ProTools I’m much happier with my current setup.

Even outright owning the software and going through the proper upgrades, I STILL get the "everything that made this mix cool is missing" when trying to open older files at times.

About 8:40, UAD Devices primarily work ONLY in ASIO mode on Windows so doing any off work like Zoom or Teams will not be possible since it crackles out and bugs out. For a big music studio this might not be much of an interest, but for a home studio owner that has Windows to do everything this is a bummer. They have never fixed these issues and they also occur on their "new" UAD Apollo Devices for much more money. On my Mac I never had any of the before mentioned problems. I sadly upgraded my whole Windows rig to also support Thunderbolt to use UADs Interfaces on Windows and Mac with possibly a KVM but, since they never fixed the drivers, I had no use and had to return it.

My LP-6’s sound better than anything at that price point and as good as monitors twice the cost.

Am I the only one surprised that the cost of a Mac is comparable to PC? For example, simply upgrading storage or RAM on Apple products is very expensive. On the other hand, the resale value might be the biggest asset in favor of Apple. Great video btw.

Currently windows limitation is with the hardware used to build the pc. It’s so smooth. For me why Mac. Logic, MainStage plus templates will save lot more money than spending big money on kontakt libraries. For around 120 I can get a template from Sunday keys and be set with a affordable midi keyboard

I've been using Teg Creme RC (with remote control via plugin... superb!) for a year now and I am very happy, it's always on my mixbuss, sometimes with EQ>COMP some others COMP>EQ, depending on the source material. In any case this unit is worth every single penny as Barry said in this video and it's good also for other applications such as drums or groups of instruments. Since now I did not find anything better at this price

HELL NO! Was gonna Buy it....GOT THE SIGMA Instead...Love it!

Pro Tools Ultimate perpetual user here, I stopped with the abusive 500$ update plan since AVID releases like 4 updates a year, that makes a cost of 125$ per update. Completely abusive. They think of us as milk cows, just as Adobe does. And yes, purchase your perpetual license for your DAW. Stop being a milk cow. Any DAW nowadays can get the job done, even more if we’re dealing with 64-bit resolution audio motors. Congrats on saying out loud what many of us think Barry.

I hope you're doing well Barry, this video is somewhat more tense than usual, I guess your disgust with AVID has been piling up recently? anyway, thanks for the video, as always it's a welcome "balance" against all the marketing nonsense especially nowadays during sales

What you're getting wrong here is that the Cadence from Windows XP to Windows 7 to Windows 10 is extremely long. The Cadence from Mac OS updates is much more frequent. This is true.

In my 27 year experience serving customers, I would advise them to follow your advice and do not upgrade your Mac operating system until you absolutely have to because it leads to problems!

I do find that Mac computers always cost more money even for equal specifications.

I have also worked at a music store for 27 years. I always told everybody to buy the platform you want to use. I have seen plenty of people who have had their computer turned into a brick. But it is true that Mac is less forgiving of legacy devices.

I have owned seven digital audio workstation computers, all were windows. Windows XP all the way up to Windows 10. I had almost no problems ever. I used firewire and USB audio devices. I used Moto devices with their proprietary audio card. I used rme PCI cards. Focusrite Mackie rme audio devices. I have had almost no problems ever.

still on a high spec win 7 pc , its a beast , no problems other than some new vst software cant be used , but the software i have is enough .

The only time Ive bricked a box of either platform was due to a complicated software application update, not an OS update; hardware failures not withstanding. I’ve been using both Mac and Windows (dos) PCs side by side since the early 90s. I do OS updates between projects or contracts or as required for security requirements. Software updates are done depending on vendor reliance and feature needs. Otherwise I wait for a similar break in work. But I’m usually up to date on Mac updates way more than Windows. Everything else you said I 100% agree with. I think in numbers I’m about even in hardware failures per platform. But Mac has been more varying on what has failed; motherboard, HDD, monitor, video card. Windows PCs it’s mostly been HDDs but so far never a video card or motherboard. Just HDDs, Mouse, keyboard monitors. 🙏🏻

I use ProTools, and could not agree with you more. Perpetual all the way. BUT, those F^%#$^rs at AVID raised the annual support 250% overnight a few year back, and it is only getting worse. Of course they added new functionality annually to try to make you feel good about it. I hammered them hard and they caved during the first couple of years when they tried to get me to give up my perpetual license. They failed, I won, and they discounted the annual fee. I did not put up with their crap and you shouldn't either. We are far more effective though when we fight back together.