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posted by on Saturday June 10 2017, @02:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-you-can-only-buy-parts-from-them dept.

Apple is making its recently-released iMacs more easily upgradeable, with retailer OWC confirming the base specification 27-inch 5K iMac can be fitted with up to 64GB of RAM, while an iFixit teardown reveals both the memory and the processor used in the 21.5-inch 4K iMac can be removed and replaced.

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[...] an upgradeable iMac is a big shift in direction from Apple. The last 21.5-inch iMac with expandable memory was the 2013 model, while the last to include a modular CPU came in 2012.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 10 2017, @06:33PM (9 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday June 10 2017, @06:33PM (#523545) Homepage

    If you're a musician who can afford to drop 5K on an iMac, then you should be a musician who can set something up to sufficiently isolate your mics and instruments from ambient noises. With music it's garbage-in, garbage-out, it doesn't matter how fast your desktop can run if you have shitty instruments and shitty gear piping shitty shrill low-res digital sound into your interface.

    Or you can eliminate noise by clever use of noise gates/compressors, or more complex noise-reduction plugins, or even good ol' pain-in-the-ass manual editing.

    Finally, a mildly amusing story. During recording one of my songs, I forgot that I'd left my phone by my audio interface and, sure enough, during the outro, the "blip-blip-blip" from the phone GSM buzz contaminated the sound. However, I had a sense of humor about it and kept the blip in the final version, it was actually an appropriate sound effect for an outro.

    Sometimes you want to keep "mistakes." Kirk Hammett discovered this during his solo in Master of Puppets in which his fret hand accidentally slid off the end of the fretboard and fretted the string directly onto the pickup, causing a squeal. It turned out to be pretty rad, so they kept it in.

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  • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 10 2017, @07:01PM (5 children)

    by KGIII (5261) on Saturday June 10 2017, @07:01PM (#523551) Journal

    Link to your work?

    --
    "So long and thanks for all the fish."
    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 11 2017, @01:28AM (4 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday June 11 2017, @01:28AM (#523641) Homepage

      Not now. There's identifying information where it can be found.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by KGIII on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:35AM (3 children)

        by KGIII (5261) on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:35AM (#523664) Journal

        Alright... Are we gonna play. "I'll show you mine, if you show me your's?" Fuck it... I'll show you mine. However... I ask that you still show me your work, after you hear these two.

        But... Really? LOL Are you sure wouldn't just like to link me and let me hear you?

        Umm... I've played in front of 15k people. I am not scared. ;-) 15k is the largest group I have ever played for and I've never played for an audience that sat for the whole show. (Those are negatives for me.)

        Fine... This is me showing off. I'm playing not one but two guitars, as I am learning to use Audacity and put multiple tracks down:

        Here. [vocaroo.com] (Wait for it, That's about 2.5 minutes in.) That's something you should know.

        Now, I will legit show off - and I'm not that good,., What I *can* do is replicate music.

        Here you go and this is me showing off. *grins*

        Don't go here. [vocaroo.com] That is a single take and every tone is made by a guitar - just one guitar. Go ahead and listen.

        (Why yes, yes I do play classical guitar.)

        I invited you to play 'cause I really wanted to hear you. I don't even care what your skill level is. I am not cocky, I am certain. I can play alright. ;-)

        I really, really want to hear you play - regardless of skill level. I just threw mine out there. Make fun of it all you want.

        --
        "So long and thanks for all the fish."
        • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Sunday June 11 2017, @12:15PM (2 children)

          by fyngyrz (6567) on Sunday June 11 2017, @12:15PM (#523772) Journal

          Fun. :) Enjoyed both.

          An homage to Led Zeppelin [fyngyrz.com]

          • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:15PM (1 child)

            by KGIII (5261) on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:15PM (#523872) Journal

            That was awesome! LOL Thanks for sharing. And, yeah, it does remind me of Zep. You're getting lovely tones out of that Washburn.

            --
            "So long and thanks for all the fish."
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:43AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:43AM (#523667)

    If you're talking strictly studio, you're right. You can build insane levels of isolation in, have separate rooms, noise reduction stuff and all the goodies. Good for you; the expensive computer is probably one percent (if that) of your setup costs.

    If you're doing anything more ad hoc than that, or you're trying to produce while on tour, or you're simply trying to set up your bedroom studio, it's a pain in the ass.

    These are not equivalent scenarios.

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:48AM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:48AM (#523669) Homepage

      If you have a bedroom, then throw all your mics and a bunch of pillows in there.

      If you don't, then throw them all in your water-closet, those surfaces reflect and throw some cool 'verb and slap echoes as pleasant side-effects.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:23AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:23AM (#523698)

        For recording, you're right.

        Read again: mixing and mastering.

        Not the same thing. If you're packing an all-in-one machine in so many pillows that you can't hear the roaring fans while rendering, you won't be able to see the monitors, you won't be able to hear the speakers (assuming you don't have separate monitors, which on the road you very well might not) and you'll have thermal overload before you can say "Jack Robinson".

        For electronic musicians, this is a showstopper. They might as well go back to repeated offline renders and iterative tweaking.