IMac slowly passing away

[four/five]

My 2009 iMac looks like it’s giving up the ghost so I’ve purchased a MacBook.

However I now realise that it doesn’t have the audio in and out facilities that the iMacs used to have.

Do I now need something like a Focusrite Scarlett?
 

I have used Audacity/iTunes on the iMac to bounce music from iTunes into a mixer and back into Audacity

so that I can loop parts of the track to work out bass parts etc.

Would a Scarlett provide the same sort of system on the MacBook?

 

Ill start reading the sticky on here on how to record etc on a PC but any advice greatfully received.

 

 

[vbance]

I use a behringer u phoria UMC404 interface into MacBook Pro through garageband and use the loop function. connecting the interface to the Mac, I use a usb to usb-c adapter.

[Wolfram]

Firstly, you don't need to bounce audio into and out of a Mac like that. Use Existential Audio's Blackhole audio driver - you set iTunes output to Blackhole's output, Audacity's input to Blackhole's input and it loops it back entirely digitally in the Mac. It's $10 I think.

https://existential.audio/blackhole/

For a small audio interface, I highly rate MOTU's M2 or M4 depending on your needs. I use one as a portable interface with my Macbook Pro; the converters sound great and it's been completely bulletproof.

[SamIAm]

17 minutes ago, Wolfram said:

I highly rate MOTU's M2 or M4

++1 on the MOTU M4, a lovely bit of kit, great quality and v.low latency.

Use it with my Mac Book and Logic Pro.

Sam x

[four/five]

Thank you all for the replies and advice. 
A mate is going to lend me a Focusrite Scarlett to try out

and get my head around this new fangled analog to digital.

 

They’ll be havin amps with no valves in next!