
Is it worth to build a Hackintosh for Home recording? Does it work good in any way? Let’s find out!
Yesterday, I was posting a
But here, maybe will be read by a lot of more peoples. ‘Hackintosher’, fellow audio friends. By you guys! … hopefully. So, back when I begin to find out the possibility of how to install macOS on a lowest ‘
I finally discovered a successful method to create a Vanilla Hackintosh, which I shared on this blog. Later, I explored whether a low-budget Hackintosh could handle demanding tasks, such as home recording.
And surprise surprise it works too!
Believe it or not, with only 4GB of RAM installed and I can record a song on it. As an
Below is the video overview of low budget
How to make hackintosh PC fully working for home recording
In my previous post, I discussed this topic, but now I want to provide more details on optimizing Hackintosh for home recording, even on low-spec PCs like mine. As shown in the case study, it functions well on a Core 2 Duo with just 4 GB of RAM, so it will perform even better on higher-spec machines.
Here that determine what makes Hackintosh run flawlessly.
A good Graphics card
Whether if you are running a core i3, i5, i7 pc. But if your graphics card isn’t supported for macOS. Then it will be suck. Is not always an expensive graphics card. But, the most important is, the GPU should be compatible with the Hackintosh. Since most
You can check the list of working graphics card on this page (link will open in new tab): Working Graphics Cards For Hackintosh [Case Study]
If you want to install macOS Mojave, see the references of alternative Metal capable graphics card here: Want to Install macOS Mojave on Hackintosh Think Again!
So, once again. It does not have to be expensive! as long it compatible it will just work.
Make sure your Power Supply Unit is good too!
In the first trial and error of how to make a low budget
After replacing the PSU with the good one. DANG! the issue is gone. But not 100%. Because I use a super cheap Audio Interface at the time. So I bought a new audio interface and the issue is 100% solved.
A low latency Audio Interface
There is a bunch of super cheap audio interface out there on the market. That promise you with low-latency audio. But you only got what you pay. So make sure your audio-interface really have low-latency. Once again, is not always super expensive.
There’s some good audio interface that not costs so much. But have a ‘real’ low-latency audio. Like Behringer U-Phoria USB audio interface for example.
For more list of cheap but good USB audio interface for Home Recording, you can check here: Best Cheap USB Audio Interface For Home Recording
Optimize macOS
You may also need to optimize macOS on your
Here you can read the article: Optimize Mac OS for Digital Audio Workstation [Home Recording]
Conclusion
That’s some insight from me. So, now you have your own conclusion that if it running well on low budget PC. Then it should run more great on better PC specs. As long as all other parts supported. Your Hackintosh should be able doing any task just the way the real Mac does. There will always some issue with Hackintosh but you’ll find the way ๐
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