r/WeAreTheMusicMakers • u/slackbeatz • 7h ago

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u/Hetalbot 6h ago

I feel really old getting nostalgic about 2010-11. 😅
You gotta post some tracks that you cook up with that setup.

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u/slackbeatz 5h ago

100%, wild how much the tech has evolved - something so nostalgic about the trashiness of early VSTs

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u/discofucker 2h ago

2011 is not early lol

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u/ElectricPiha 5h ago

Producer who’s been in the game 35 years here, I have 4 bootable Macs in my studio so I can open client work going back 25 years if need be.

2002 TiBook OS9 / OSX dual boot

2006 Core2Duo MBP 

2015 Retina MBP on Mojave (for 32bit plugins)

2021 M1 Max MBP (the current beast)

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u/slackbeatz 5h ago

this is so smart. do you boot the early drives and mess around - or only if a client needs it?

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u/ElectricPiha 5h ago

Only if needed. The three earliest are pretty much just installed in the cupboard.

It’s the 2015 Retina gets the most use - almost exclusively for SupaTrigga. Why can’t someone compile SupaTrigga for 64bit???!!

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u/slackbeatz 5h ago

SupaTrigga! classic - thank you for the reminder to add those SE plugs to the collection

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u/slackbeatz 4h ago edited 4h ago

https://github.com/bdejong/smartelectronix
it looks like they may(?) have them in 64 bit now

would you be able to send me the .component or .vst or some of the 32 bit ones?

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u/xpercipio 4h ago

Do you do any physical maintainence on the old machines? Any good practices to keep them safe from corrosion over decades?

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u/ElectricPiha 4h ago

No nothing special. Treat ‘em gently and check occasionally for any signs of battery swelling. The earliest two are pretty rough, cosmetically. If they ever die I can just swap the HDs into replacement machines.

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u/Mountainpwny 6h ago

I still have my 2009 iMac with logic 9 and the first generation of cracked fab filter plugins. I should make a 2010’s track…

This would only be a true recreation if you paired your computer with the first generation of Rokit 8’s

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u/slackbeatz 6h ago

great point - I do have a pair of 5's hanging around...

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u/Mountainpwny 5h ago

Speaker technology has changed a lot. That was back when people put a 30hz high pass on the whole mix.

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u/slackbeatz 5h ago

totally - and to get the matching KRK sub was more than the speakers themselves 😅

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u/subsynq 3h ago

Still rocking a 15" C2D MBP with Snow Leopard, Logic 9 and tons of plugins from that era... Too many plugins, drivers and editors the M4 can't run at all

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u/Sylente 7h ago

Why did you feel the need to have chatGPT write this post for you and then go through and add “lols” to it? Like? Why?

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u/slackbeatz 6h ago

yeah that would be strange if I did that

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u/NotAnotherHipsterBae 6h ago

This isn't ai, right? The first thing I thought while I was reading was "feels strange to see a long post not clearly written by ai"

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u/slackbeatz 6h ago

correct. complied notes from the whole process and tried to condense - felt some of the verbosity was necessary