Year Archives: 2020

This past December, OWC announced its available memory options for the 2019 Mac Pro Tower. They now confirm compatibility with the 2019 Mac Pro Rack, offering up to 1.5TB of memory for the 24-core and 28-core Mac Pro 2019 and up to  1.0TB of OWC memory  for 8-, 12- and 16-core machines vs. Apple's factory options only available up to 768GB. OWC is proud to be the go-to for memory upgrades, having sold thousands of kits for the 2019 Mac Pro Tower since it was released, so if you need the best memory at the best price for your 2019 Mac Pro Rack, look no further!

In an earlier Pro Audio series article, we covered some of the most common types of audio effects. And in the last article, I shared with you some of my favorite plugins for delay, echo, and reverb. In this post, I’ll list some of my favorite chorus effects plugins. As a reminder, you might want to check out the stock plugins included with your DAW too, as almost all DAWs include free chorus and distortion options. It’s a good way to get started and doing so will give you a baseline for comparison.

Adam Blackstone of BASSic Black Entertainment and Musical Director for Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, and the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime show, talks about how OWC products are an essential part of his musical workflow. He is particularly fond of his many Envoy Pro EX SSDs and his 8TB Mercury Elite Pro Dual – citing that both have sped up his workflow tremendously.

The Activity Monitor app can be used to troubleshoot your Mac, as well as evaluate how well your Mac is performing overall or with specific running processes (apps). In Using Activity Monitor Part 2, we’ll take a look at using this utility to explore your Mac's energy use, disk performance, and network performance.

I don’t know about you, but I use Apple’s iCloud Drive a lot. Subscribing to a full 2TB of storage for my wife and me, we store everything out there — scanned documents, all of our photos, you name it. On the iPhone and iPad, there’s a Files app that gives you one-tap access to iCloud Drive and any other local files or cloud services, but there’s no such app for Mac. In this short article, I’ll show you how easy it is to add an iCloud Drive Button to the macOS Dock for one-click access to your content in the cloud.

Spam®. The word conjures up the Hormel spiced ham product that is popular in Hawaii and other parts of the world. Spam gained even more fame and fortune in the 1970s as the memorable subject of a sketch and song by the British Monty Python comedy troupe.