Using Two Macs with Logic Pro X

If you’re lucky enough to own two Macs – maybe a desktop computer for the studio and a laptop for working out and about – have you ever considered the possibility of creating a music production system that utilizes both machines? Although the computing power of most Macs is usually sufficient to handle a range of production activities, there’s still a lot to be said for a system that incorporates two or more computers. You could, for example, use a second ‘slave’ machine for streaming heavy-duty sample libraries, or as like many professional composers, use a second machine as a means of outsourcing video playback, rather than laden the main workstation with gigabytes of video files.

In this workshop, therefore, we are going to take a look at the means of creating a two-Mac Logic workstation and the principle way of sending MIDI and Timecode between the two machines using just a standard Ethernet network cable. While it is possible to also send audio over a network connection (see the boxout