Haha. Well, that’s true.
If u need huge power for less money, go PC.
A Mac Pro is a nice thing. But as you said, very expensive.
I can’t tell how good or bad logic or pro tools are running on the
present OS cuz I simply do not use them as I really do not like them in any way.
But for me as I work a lot more with MIDI than with audio the internal hdd
combined with an external backup drive is enough.
To be true I thought that the TDM bus was pro tools only as it’s used to send
and receive data from dididesign interfaces.
But I can tell that Cubase is running very stable on my Mac.
When I used Win XP back in the days I had too many crashes.
Sometimes it was the system itself, sometimes it was Cubase.
But I heard from many users that this is a thing of the past since
windows 7.
Btw, direct monitoring works very well for me as I just use a 2-channel-interface.
So how do you make the cue mix not using it? Using the To-Tape-Signal?
Otherwise the musicians get a latency on their headphones, don’t they?