My “tiny desk ”Digital Audio battle station. Specs in post.

If your after old school results, this pretty much nails the 90s/Y2K sound quite well. Integrates better with vintage sampler/rack synths as there was software support on these machines for that equipment. I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max and a 128 channel audio interface that connects to it, so I’m not without modern amenities in my main studio.

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hamburgler26@reddit

This is badass. And I bet despite it's age it is just as awesome at recording as it was when new.

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DarthRevanG4@reddit

I don't know a lot about MIDI hardware or audio production, I do a lot of listening though. I love HiFi gear and audiophile stuff. I actually got a VXpocket recently to get good lossless audio out of my PowerBooks.

Anyway question. OS 9 isn't multi-CPU aware, but I know certain applications for OS 9 are able to use both CPUs. Is this one of them? What made you go with OS 9 over OS X on such a "modern" G4?

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DarkWaterDW@reddit (OP)

Pro Tools 5 and Logic 6 work best on OS9 vs OSX. I have 10.3.9 and Pro Tools 6.4.1 on both my Pro Tools MIX Rigs, and still prefer working with OS9.

Most of what I’m doing is running off the Pro Tools DSP cards so the CPU hardly gets a workout on 32-48 track projects. Not to mention alot of software that ran on OS9 didn’t make the transition well into OSX.

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xternocleidomastoide@reddit

Brilliant setup!

I remember that music production setups were the last holdups of the classic mac System, for a long while, during the transition to OSX.

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morganstern@reddit

Powerbook is a notebook, I see a G4 Powermac tho

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DarkWaterDW@reddit (OP)

Yup, typo. I talk alot about PowerBook G3s so it autocorrects that way sometime

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kissmyash933@reddit

Nice machine! Cute little setup!

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DarkWaterDW@reddit (OP)

PowerBook G4 Quicksilver Dual 1.0Ghz 1.5GB Ram (I use every bit of it running Pro Tools/Logic). GeForce MX400 32MB AGP (need to confirm). 480GB HDD, 480GB SSD FireWire drives below monitor 3 Pro Tools MIX Farm + 1 DSP Farm for running plugins. Digidesign 882/20 audio interface. M Audio Oxygen 8 MIDI controller (OS9 support).