Is The New Mac Pro All We Asked For Except For The Price? - Production Expert Podcast Episode 372
In the Production Expert podcast Mike, Dan and Eli talk about the new Modular Cheese-grater Mark 2 Mac Pro, with 8 PCI-e card slots, up to 28 cores, 1.5TB of RAM and share their first reactions on the Mac Pro as well as the new Pro Display and macOS 10.15 - Catalina. In contrast with the new Mac Pro, they discuss the free DAW - Cakewalk that already has ARA2 support as well as share their favourite free plug-ins and software. They also share their finds of the week.
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Talking Points
Apple Preview macOS 10.15 - Catalina - Ready For Release In The Fall
We discuss Cakewalk, the free DAW with ARA2 support as well as our favourite free plug-ins which you can find in our fully searchable free plug-in database. These are the ones we focused on…
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Eli - BST 100 Super Overdrive Guitar Amplifier plug-in from Nembrini Audio.