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you don’t say what kind of music you will be recording, or what instruments might feature, but the cheapest and easiest start for getting an analogue source (microphone or guitar) input into your new Mac is a Griffin iMic. Start with that combination and get to know GarageBand. You will be surprised at the quality you can achieve, and at the versatility and capability of GB.
once you have found your feet you can progress to more sophisticated equipment.
Good source for knowhow is the Studio section of this forum. Lots of expertise here!
My first advice would be to take a little time to evaluate what you really want to achieve, in a certain time frame, lets say a year.
Say, in a year, you want to be releasing fully self composed, self mixed music- which is perfectly achievable, you will have to devote a lot of time to learning and research.
I would recommend that research time is important at the beginning, as this can be a very expensive hobby if you make the wrong decisions early on.
Do not, I repeat, do not spend any money, until you have spent a certain amount of time researching the pro's and con's of Apple vs PC,
When you have made that decision, you will be faced with the decision of which DAW to use, which interface to use, and the list goes on, all affected by your choice of operating system.
Remember, I was talking about a years timescale, well maybe you need to be very realistic at the beginning about what you expect to achieve.
There are easy answers, but you will have no one else to blame if you make bad decisions at the start of your journey, it takes time, practice and experience to get to an end result, how much of that year will you be devoting to the subject?
A year goes by very quickly, this year especially, and I personally have not been able to make much progress at all this year.
My advice at this stage, is to do plenty of reading, and if you have not found answers to specific questions, ask away.
Make a list of things you want to do, then use this list to compare the options available, but take the time to do this before you get your wallet out.
good luck.
Anyone can pick a dud I guess, and maybe I have been lucky, but Macs are generally pretty robust if you treat them with respect. Have a search on eBay and see what turns up.
All good stuff that, but sooner or later you have to get your hands dirty and just jump in!
Jus sayin . . .
The point of which was really to say, act in haste-repent at leisure.
I'm not biased either way, but the big choice at the beginning has consequences down the line.
It has all been widely discussed on here.
For further info really what I am wanting to be able to record at home are guitars, bass and keys. So nothing spectacular.
I work with a studio so I have been told I need it to run logic.
For the current version of Logic you need a Mac running Mojave, which means the Mac needs to be either a mid 2012 Macbook Pro onwards or a late 2012 iMac onwards.
To just record guitars, keys and bass at home though you only need a basic computer and something like Reaper. Anything can be imported between different DAW's if you consolidate the regions. As nice as Macs are for audio they are expensive, even 2nd hand
seems cheap
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114263867749
So when buying a machine you need to know what machine it is and what year it is. Don't be swayed by included software as a lot of Ebayers clone the drives to give office and Logic etc but any problems with the hd and you won't have any means of reinstalling the software as you won't have the media or the serials / activation etc