2025 Recording gear update: To Mac or to PC?

[Krisfield]

Mac Aggregate Device is a feature I use. Incredibly useful.

^ Speaking of which: One of the Mac "audio killer features" is the Aggregate Device:
Create an Aggregate Device to combine multiple audio devices - Apple Support
I don't know if there's an equivalent on Windows.

 

[EvilJ]

This is the only one I know of for Windows:

VB-Audio Matrix Coconut

VB-Audio Matrix Coconut, Ultimate Real Time Audio Router by V.Burel

vb-audio.com

VB-Audio Matrix Coconut - reliably aggregating multiple audio devices on Windows - Cockos Incorporated Forums

VB-Audio Matrix Coconut - reliably aggregating multiple audio devices on Windows REAPER General Discussion Forum

forum.cockos.com

 

[seamonkey]

I don't know if there's an equivalent on Windows.

ASIO4ALL, and/or ASIO Link Pro
Both free, both have tutorials on youtube.

ASIOlinkpro will let you route audio between apps and share ASIO devices at the same time. It's an amazing app! Search Youtube for tutorials. It is one up on the Mac Aggregate device.

For Reaper, I'd suggest people also look at Wasapi instead of ASIO.

 

[74hc]

You don't get to add more memory without also upgrading the SSD on the Mini. To upgrade from 16GB RAM to 24GB (max available), you have to also get the bigger drive and the cost increase is $400.

So is 8GB additional RAM worth $400 over the cost of the base model? Aside from SSD and RAM, they are otherwise identical.

Yeah, Tim Cook loves the money in your wallet. With one of the biggest corporate hordes of cash, you'd think Apple would be better at RAM pricing.