if you have a new i5 or i7, the stock ram you have with your system will do for the time being.

The sound card in the imac is decent, but when you start adding any plugins it can grind your machine to a halt.

The first thing is to make sure you have an audio interface that can help provide you with better sound processing. You need to think of a few things before using your imac for music production. So which is better an imac or the REAL THING which is a professional recording studio? So if that's the case then, common sense would say iMac is probably the way to go. I've heard that you can get AUTHENTIC sound when you go with a studio but then I've heard from Jimmy Iovine that once a piece of music is transferred over and burn't to a CD and you place it in your car stereo or computer, you don't get nearly is good as sound. Now I know some have the same thing which is a macbook pro or an imac but they also have additional expensive looking equipment that I don't have with a little room thats behind glass and the engineer is looking towards you with his equipment right in front. Is it better to go with an iMac or am I better off going to a professional recording studio with the works. My question is, I've read on several forums that you can use the iMac as a recording studio. I've recorded one song through GarageBand in 4 different parts.

I'm working on writing 5 of my best songs for a demo and getting them recorded.

I just recently bought an imac 2 months for video editing purposes for another project. I have a question and I'm sort of puzzled of what to do.

Imac for recording studio