M3 leak

We havn't even fixed the issues with the M1's yet....  It's going to get really annoying if Apple keeps up this kind of pace releasing new chips. Developers can't catch up, those of us that bought brand new M2 chips pretty much immediately feel like crap for wasting money when we should have waited "just a little longer". The M1's should have been around for a few years before they even thought about doing the M2's, is this just absolutely crazy to anyone else? We're not going to buy a new computer every year Apple, stop trying so hard.

Just look at Apples incessant new OS releases - one per year or thereabouts.  That should tell you where they are headed.

Good grief...I can't imagine needing more power than the M2 Ultra provides.

Bingo.  On my old 2012 Macbook Pro, I wanted to use Logic which a client bought for me, so I had to update to Catalina.  However, this meant none of my waves plugins were compatible anymore, so I had to pay WUP to use them again.  Rock and a hard place sometimes.

I hate that channel. They reallllly like to pump up the rumors are rarely correctly. just click bait BS youtube channel most the time.

What we need is more single core power and for Apple to compromise on casework a little bit to gain repairability and better thermals (to run faster on more watts). The current Intel champ, the i9-13900k can only be cooled by an aio water cooler in a full atx case. There’s no reason an Apple silicon Mac mini or studio system on a chip couldn’t use normal ram and a normal ssd if they just made the case a little bigger. I hope the EU mandates that eventually.

The good developers catch up quickly. Ones that are owned by private equity firms or contract out all of their programming work do not. Do not use such software if you do not have to. Almost all plugin alliance has been replaced but the dsm still lingers occasionally.

The elephant in the room is avid with its horrible development schedule, antiquated code base, dead on arrival aax dsp plugin format, and shifting teams of contracted out programmers not fixing bugs and introducing new bugs. Expect it to only get worse.

I always enjoy a chance to crap on Avid, but I think it's worth mentioning that a lot of the Avid software people are based in the Ukraine and the "issues" over there slowed things down significantly. Pretty frustrating, I don't want to see any of those people loose their jobs because they're busy protecting their country, at the same time I would also like Avid to fix a lot of problems...

dan, are saying soc ram isn’t faster and doesn’t contribute to the faster processing and lower heat of the silicon design ?

As far as I have read, these are its attributes/benefits ?

I can’t really max out my M1 Mac Studio

It barely matters. What matters is voltage to the chip, increasing power consumption, increasing heat. They could have the ram be removable under the metal cover of the system on a chip. People with crazy soldering skills have increased ram on Mac minis beyond official Apple specs.

You can kill a single core pretty easily on low buffer for low latency which will bring the entire session down. Modern fx Sends and bus processing can be very heavy and everything must still be rendered in real time at the same buffer you automated to guarantee everything matches up perfectly for time based fx and automation. You can be using maybe only 10-40 % of the cpu power yet can max out a core. I am using a 12900k which has a much faster single core speed and adding certain compressors to busses (8x to 16x oversampling from pulsar, the glue, and dmg) or another fx send can bring down a session on high buffer. Pro Audio already is the most aggressive real time scheduling on both Mac and Windows. Telling the daw to more aggressively utilize cpu resources to spread the load will increase the total percentage used and bring you in danger of overloading the entire cpu or an efficiency core at the expense of spreading the single core load.

If I use some old school sheet like the og Sony Oxford six pack sonnox plugs made by Paul frindle, Waves Ren with the og 1999 guis, old versions of McDSP prior to the last two when they got the stupid encryption and pretty gui bloat, I can run hundreds of them but that’s not really saying much because the sound will be cold steel of Sonnox, mud of Waves Ren, or digital sandpaper phase shifted from excessive high pass filters to correct dc offset sound of McDSP. I used to mix that up and everything would sound like industrial music if I pushed anything too hard.

Even rendering 40 minute to hours long audio files offline with a insert chain of modern mastering plugs can take about 10 mins per hour. That’s a lot of time wasted!