Mac Mini for music production?

[minestrone]

I use sonar, I can't say I have ever warmed to it. Kind of in the same way I use eclipse to write java code and generally think it is pretty crap.

[TestMangler]

Heard good things about Reaper actually

It's good because it's not as bloated as the other commercial offerings like Cubase and Sonar. Not really found anything yet that I can't do with it.

Doesn't come with any VST's but all the commercial ones I have work fine with it (Sylenth, Nexus, Massive etc.)

Comes bundled with reasonable effects like reverbs and stuff and the home use licence is only £60 or something.

[rob s]

Heard good things about Reaper actually

[TestMangler]

I use Linux exclusively these days on the desktop at home but want to get back to some serious music production without going back to Windows. A friend suggested a Mac Mini mid range model would do the job and seems a good choice at first glance but never used one.

Anybody use one for that purpose? Your choice of DAW? A lot of the software I currently have comes with Mac versions so not a big deal to move and not much expense other than a good DAW.

Go back to windows Clipster and give Reaper a try. Or build a box as a temp to give Reaper a try. Took me ages to move to it, mainly because it's so cheap and was always looking for the catch, but works with all the plugins/vstis etc that I've always used with Sonar

[rob s]

Used older versions of Reason (4, 5 and 6) on a 2012 era Mini and worked ok.

[stek]

I use Linux exclusively these days on the desktop at home but want to get back to some serious music production without going back to Windows. A friend suggested a Mac Mini mid range model would do the job and seems a good choice at first glance but never used one.

Anybody use one for that purpose? Your choice of DAW? A lot of the software I currently have comes with Mac versions so not a big deal to move and not much expense other than a good DAW.

Cannae beat Mac (prefer iMac) for this - Logic X is a dream, as is MainStage, even Superior Drummer which I don't like and Autotune, up to you really....

Garageband is free and is really Logic X for noobs, Logic is like 129 quid, MainStage 40 quid or something....

Fill yer boots! that piece I sent u is my lad on Logic X for strings, real guitar and bass, superior drummer for drums...

[Cliphead]

I use Linux exclusively these days on the desktop at home but want to get back to some serious music production without going back to Windows. A friend suggested a Mac Mini mid range model would do the job and seems a good choice at first glance but never used one.

Anybody use one for that purpose? Your choice of DAW? A lot of the software I currently have comes with Mac versions so not a big deal to move and not much expense other than a good DAW.