Luckily, Apple created Rosetta 2 and this will take your older plugins and allow them to run under emulation using some special coding. As yet, many of the major plugin developers have not re-coded their software to run natively on these new Apple Silicon, ARM based chipsets, so this means your performance may suffer and at worst your older plugins may not run at all. Logic Pro X runs natively on the M1 chipsetĪs a guitar player I use a host of plugins and this is where you might come a cropper with the M1 chipset. My main DAW these days flits between Logic Pro X and Reaper, both of which are optimised for the new M1 chipset and so you can run them with no major compatibility woes, and in theory they should both chug along quite nicely. The Apple M1 Mac mini could be perfect for your studio With this in mind and the fact I’ve been playing the guitar for over 35 years, I thought I would try and answer this question for anyone looking to get a new Apple Mac to use as the base for a DAW setup. I’ve done System 7 through to OS 9.22, all the ‘Big Cats and Mountains’ etc of OSX and I am now currently rocking a new M1 Mac mini in my studio running Big Sur. Well, my background with Apple is pretty solid, as I worked for them for over 15 years and have been using them for more than 30 years.

Is Apple’s M1 Mac mini the perfect system for guitarists? The Apple M1 Mac mini dropped in late 2020 and with the new ARM based processor, this powerhouse of desktop computer could be perfect for musicians looking for a solid platform to record music with.

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