How To Build A Thunderbolt Audio Production Hackintosh 

it's quite rare to see such video based on audio production. Well done, nice presentation

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It's awesome seeing people still Hackintoshing for music production in 2023. I just setup my first ever fully functioning Hackintosh thanks to the Dortania guide. May not have the low power-draw of the silicon macs, but at least its just as powerful and upgradable!

I am seriously thinking of doing this to replace my 2013 iMac, mainly so I can use Windows for some dev stuff on another partition. Thank you for the excellent tutorial man, very much appreciated!

Awesome Video !!!

wow..very nice video fro hackintosh build.. still need more videos for hackintosh build in step by step...so that it will be very useful for newcomers.... thanks..

Good to know that the thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapters work fine on a hackintosh build. I'm about to make my old pc into one soon. Running a GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 MB with a built in TB3 port, 1060 ti 6GB ram & vengeance 64GB DDR4 3200mhz. Thanks for this!

Great video! Don't forget, you can daisy chain Firewire through Thunderbolt like I do too!! I have a Midas VF-32 with Firewire 32 ins and outs and I have a Quantum 4848 with Thunderbolt 2 and I Aggregate them together in Mac OS to get 64 ins and outs!!

..great tutorial..respect

Thank for sharing

Found this video because I'm just about to build another hackintosh, having built quite a few previously, and this motherboard (AsRock z490 phantom gaming ITX/TB3) has Thunderbolt so I'm trying to understand Thunderbolt on hackintosh better. I just wanted to say that I'd urge anyone who doesn't have precisely this hardware to put the time in to following the Dortania guide from start to finish. The people who wrote it develop Opencore and they strongly recommend people do not use configurators, because they can corrupt .config files and are rarely current with latest Opencore releases. IOW all the real work has been done by the Opencore guys (just two or three guys these days) and those working on the critical kexts. These are all open source and free, along with everything else you need- so be wary of people profiting from other people's work, especially as they very rarely credit them properly. For more recent versions of MacOS you're going to also need to map your USB ports prior to installation - this is most easily done in Windows with USB Map Tool - the advantage of this is that even if you happen to have exactly the same motherboard and CPU, you are unlikely to have the same case and therefore not the same front panel IO coming from the internal motherboard headers. It also allows you to decide for yourself which of the 15 ports you want to keep, and which you don't need. That's a very personal thing so much better to "roll your own". I'm glad using someone else's EFI worked for you - my experience has been that every time I've tried this "short cut" I've ended up wasting hours compared to just methodically building my own from scratch. Also of course when something breaks (and it will) I'm better placed to figure out why. Cheers

I can tell by the music this is the vid I was looking for. I am just using a scarlet 2i2 and I want to be able to use mac logic X AND reaper on PC. I don’t think I need to do this, but this… this my dude over here.

This looks like a great way to get me back into a decent Mac for production. How well do you think this setup would fare with video editing? Any suggestions to put it in 4k territory? Thanks for posting this.

Great video! Is it possibile to have a cheaper hardware configuration with less power but almost the same stability?

My Mac Pro 2009 is having trouble running some virtual instruments, so I am pleased I saw your video because a Mac Pro 2019 is far too expensive. The only trouble I have is that all the parts you have in your build are quite expensive, could you propose a cheaper alternative that still supports PCIe cards and Thunderbolt. Also, would a firewire card work for my UAD2 Satellite ? Thank you for sharing this video which will allow me, as a hobby musician carry on having fun.

Hi bro , but you only show how to create a usb stick in the mac? does this also work under windows? if yes how? and what kind of files

Hey! Thanks for this. Would this work with Designare Z390? I already have working EFI on Mojave hackinotsh, could I simply update Mojave to say Monterey on same EFI? Thanks

would this work on designare z390?

Gigabyte Z490 Vision D is not available. Is there any other mother board for hackintosh which support thunderbolt 3?

Did you build this from an existing mac pro and just replace parts or did you assemble this in a third party case??

Will you be flashing Thunderbolt custom firmware

Hi, I almost have the same parts but my mobo is a Gigabyte Z490 Vision G and RAM are Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 64GB ( 2 x 32GB ) 3200Mhz. Can I follow the same guide ? Thanks for your help

Now the question is, how long is apple going to provide OS updates for intel Macs.

Ah, but doing this means we miss out of the joy of when (not if) our M series Mac's SSD fails resulting in an expensive paper weight! :)

Hello friend, great video, I have a ROG STRIX Z690-I GAMING WIFI, no venture. but I have no success with Thunderbolt... it doesn't work for me

Lots of missing steps on adding kets, acpi, and dortania opencore guide for your processor,

Thanks. Which is the latest version os that will work?

Very nice video. Only thing, please do an instruction on doing the install from a Windows for those that don’t already have a Mac 😉 P.S I disagree in the part that you don’t need a big and powerfull computer for music production. Apple’s own M Pro very pricey rig only scratches the surface of the most processor hungry setups and is still behind the most powerfull Xeon based Mac Pro’s. This may not be needed by the majority of users, but there is still plenty of Pro users that wont upgrade their Mac Pro’s yet because the new Apple Silicon despite it’s effeciency still isn’t on par with the most powerfull Intel based Mac Pro’s

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