Steve Steele
Senior Member
Hi my friends!
The good folks at OS X Daily did a nice little feature on my home studio. There wasn't enough space to cover everything but they did highlight Digital Performer by hyperlinking it.
Since the interview/article I've added another modified ultimate 2009 MP with Xeon (2) 12-core 3.47GHz x5690s, 96GBs RAM (6x16GB OWC 1333 DIMMs) triple mode (important), (2) Samsung SM951 PCIe RAID 0, AMD Radeon R9 290X (for OpenCL FCPX), Sonnet eSATA/USB 3.0 card, Sonnet Tempo Dual Pro with eSATA (in 2nd MP), two 3TB HDDs (for aliased Home folder and FCPX storage), two 500GB SSDs in RAID 0, and (2) external 3TB HDDs for DP tracking files. All backed up with TM and CCC.
I'll have a video up on my YouTube channel soon with myself doing the whole build, step by step (including CPU swap). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM6vt36iHXdx39t6D2OINVA
So that makes two almost identical 2009 mods to my setup. One of them helps with FCPX, Compressor (which use Distributed Computing!), and Motion, hence the GPU. Geekbench scores of 32000. SM951s in RAID 0 read at near 4000MB/s!
OS X Daily article about DP and my studio:
https://osxdaily.com/2015/09/05/mac-setup-home-recording-studio/
BTW, check OS X Daily for great Terminal Tips. For instance, how to move your Home Folder to multiple volumes. How to create a Ram Disk for Cache files to speed up apps and help save you SSDs. I use a Ram Disk for Safari, Photoshop and some other apps. When I restart my Mac the RAM Disk is there with the cached info from the previous session.
Steve
P.S. If anyone needs help with their 2009 mod, feel free to contact me. I've dreamt up a dozen different ways to fill the PCI slots. Also, there isn't a whole lot of real world difference between the x5680 3.33GHz and the x5690 3.47GHz, especially if you know what you're doing. So don't sweat it.
The good folks at OS X Daily did a nice little feature on my home studio. There wasn't enough space to cover everything but they did highlight Digital Performer by hyperlinking it.
Since the interview/article I've added another modified ultimate 2009 MP with Xeon (2) 12-core 3.47GHz x5690s, 96GBs RAM (6x16GB OWC 1333 DIMMs) triple mode (important), (2) Samsung SM951 PCIe RAID 0, AMD Radeon R9 290X (for OpenCL FCPX), Sonnet eSATA/USB 3.0 card, Sonnet Tempo Dual Pro with eSATA (in 2nd MP), two 3TB HDDs (for aliased Home folder and FCPX storage), two 500GB SSDs in RAID 0, and (2) external 3TB HDDs for DP tracking files. All backed up with TM and CCC.
I'll have a video up on my YouTube channel soon with myself doing the whole build, step by step (including CPU swap). https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM6vt36iHXdx39t6D2OINVA
So that makes two almost identical 2009 mods to my setup. One of them helps with FCPX, Compressor (which use Distributed Computing!), and Motion, hence the GPU. Geekbench scores of 32000. SM951s in RAID 0 read at near 4000MB/s!
OS X Daily article about DP and my studio:
https://osxdaily.com/2015/09/05/mac-setup-home-recording-studio/
BTW, check OS X Daily for great Terminal Tips. For instance, how to move your Home Folder to multiple volumes. How to create a Ram Disk for Cache files to speed up apps and help save you SSDs. I use a Ram Disk for Safari, Photoshop and some other apps. When I restart my Mac the RAM Disk is there with the cached info from the previous session.
Steve
P.S. If anyone needs help with their 2009 mod, feel free to contact me. I've dreamt up a dozen different ways to fill the PCI slots. Also, there isn't a whole lot of real world difference between the x5680 3.33GHz and the x5690 3.47GHz, especially if you know what you're doing. So don't sweat it.
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