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by MartinOM28V » Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:42 pm
If I could take credit for it I would call it "Martin's Law", which is this:
The cost of upgrading your DAW should always be calculated to include not only the cost of the upgrade itself but also the costs of upgrading your plugins, your operating system, your RAM, your hard drive and possibly your computer, your audio interface and your MIDI controllers.
The opposite is also true: The benefit of not upgrading your DAW always includes the cost savings of not having to upgrade your plugins, your operating system, your RAM, your hard drive and possibly your computer, your audio interface and your MIDI controllers.
For instance Logic Pro recently offered a "free" upgrade to 9.1 which enables 64-bit processing. The problem is this "free" upgrade is very expensive when I add in the cost of new 64-bit plugins, increasing RAM, getting a new laptop that can hold even more RAM, getting a new external drive to hold even more samples. So I decided to just stick with 32-bit until I'm ready to spend a lot of money for this "free" upgrade.
iMac 3.4 GHz i7 12GB/Apogee Duet 2/Event ASP8/AKAI MPK61/Ableton Suite 8/Logic Pro 9/Waves Platinum/Komplete 7/Amplitube 3/Omnisphere/Stylus RMX/Trilian