Post by bchurch on Sept 2, 2022 9:33:37 GMT -6
I've been a Mac user since it was called "The Macintosh" - the teeny breadbox with a whopping 128k of RAM. By now, I'm pretty hip to the migration process. From the Motorola 680xx to the RISC/PowerPC to Intel and now on the cusp of going to Silicon. Apple has serially made things challenging to 3rd party developers (and by extension, their users) - historically, SDK's aren't made available until new chipsets or OS versions are publicly available (I believe that 'lifeblood' companies like Adobe might be different). So, even with the m1 being out for nearly two years, I've been kicking the can. Let somebody else storm the beach.
I know we're "just about there" - but for right now, even my slightly long-in-the-tooth 2018 intel mac is running like a watch. I don't use a ton of plug-ins - maybe in a heavy-cpu-pressure mix I have to notch the buffer back to 256 samples (I mostly run 48/24). What I've seen on some of the m1 'native' plugins is some crazy cpu loads (but if you run the intel version under Rosetta 2 it's fine). I've got Cubase Pro 12 installed on my m1 laptop just to play around or track/edit on the go and it's a point one away from me feeling comfortable running it as a daily driver in the studio. Clients shouldn't have to know that you're having computer woes. Ever.
I know we're "just about there" - but for right now, even my slightly long-in-the-tooth 2018 intel mac is running like a watch. I don't use a ton of plug-ins - maybe in a heavy-cpu-pressure mix I have to notch the buffer back to 256 samples (I mostly run 48/24). What I've seen on some of the m1 'native' plugins is some crazy cpu loads (but if you run the intel version under Rosetta 2 it's fine). I've got Cubase Pro 12 installed on my m1 laptop just to play around or track/edit on the go and it's a point one away from me feeling comfortable running it as a daily driver in the studio. Clients shouldn't have to know that you're having computer woes. Ever.
