Hello Antoni,
(If your PreSonus FP10 turns out not to be usable on macOS 10.14) I'd expect a MOTU M4 to be fine. MOTU state that it works on macOS 10.11 or later without a driver, or macOS 10.13 if its optional driver is used:
https://motu.com/en-us/products/m-series/m4/specs/Antoni Scott wrote:Install two new Internal Hard drives.
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Whilst they should work perfectly well, if you were instead to get two 2 GB SATA SSDs (instead of hard-drives) then organs would load much faster, and the Mac would boot faster. Especially if you switch between different organs frequently you may well appreciate the extra speed benefit of getting SSDs (instead of hard-drives). Most Hauptwerk users opt for SSDs these days.
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Yes.
Antoni Scott wrote:At the present time ... OSX Yosemite Version 10.10.3 is the operating system .
As larason2 mentioned, if you're currently using your PreSonus FP10 on macOS 10.13 successfully, then it will almost certainly work equally well on 10.14 too (even if PreSonus say that they don't officially support it). However, as discussed in one of your other threads on upgrading, either of macOS 10.13 or 10.14 is equally good for Hauptwerk v6 (it makes no difference which, from Hauptwerk v6's point of view), so if your FP10 is definitely working on 10.13 then you might want to install 10.13 on your new drives (instead of 10.14) simply because then your FP10 would presumably still be usable (just in case the FP10 works with 10.13 but not 10.14, even though that situation is unlikely). I.e. going with 10.13 might be the safer bet, in terms of compatibility with your FP10.
On the other hand, since 10.14 is a year newer than 10.13, 10.14 will probably continue to be supported by Apple for security updates, and maybe hardware/software/driver makers, for a bit longer than 10.13 would. Hence 10.14 may be the better mid-term bet (and your FP10 will almost certainly work on it if it works on 10.13, as larason2 mentioned). You could try your FP10 on it, and if it turns out not to work after all, then you could buy a new audio/MIDI interface at that point in time.
Antoni Scott wrote:After I install OSX 10.14 followed by th install of Version VI on a new hard drive with nothing else on it, will I still be able to switch over to my current hard drives and load them. At the present time I have organs loaded onto my hard drives with Hauptwerk 4.0.0. and 4.2 on another hard drive that I can switch back and forth in a minute.
As Ed mentioned, no -- you won't be able to continue to use v4 once you've upgrade to v6 (v5+). (The licensing sections in the user guide and release notice cover that.) However, there would be no need to keep the v4 installations anyway.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.