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so infuriating that i've been thinking about quitting live performances altogether. I've got an M1 Max 16' mbpro and i get short pops & dropouts when i drag n drop an FX to a track, and I cannot switch between midi tracks in a live set without getting a pop/dropout. Is Stefan Wyeth insightful enough to have wrote this article? Probably not.I feel your pain. So yes, the Mac Studio is suitable for pro’s.

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Especially since most pro studios don’t store work locally anyway, but on their secure network. On another note, the 8TB option is more than enough. What they do require is a solid system you can turn on in the morning, do your work and go home. Because most pro studios run a lot of their audio through hardware and not tons of plugins. The processing power for the pro studio with the M1 Pro, Max and Ultra is beyond what most professionals need. They are never going to match my Crane Song and Prism converters, period. I dont ever want Apple to deliver a sytem with high-end AD/DA. Current ports and future ones.Īlso, hell no. Are you not aware how thunderbolt functions? It is literally a direct connection to the CPU, so the port can act like any port people want it to be. Thunderbolt 4 is LITERALLY future proof, thats the whole concept. Stefan Wyeth is obviously throwing some serious BS here. This deserves a rewrite, or to be taken down. This is, hands down, the most sloppy and biased article on the Mac Studio I’ve seen anywhere. “Doesn’t meet pro specifications?” What planet are you living on? The Mac Studio can connect to any modern audio interface, including by PCIe, as mentioned earlier. Connectivity options out of date? Are you aware of any other OEM using Thunderbolt 4? It’s as cutting edge as it comes at present. And those who do have abundant options for external thunderbolt enclosures for PCI cards.ĥ. The majority of studios (of any size) don’t have a need for PCI expansion. Limitations on RAM and SSD size? 128GB and 8TB is too limited? Those upgrades are hella expensive, no doubt, but does anybody in pro audio need that much RAM? Also, I have too many samples and they only take up 5TB.Ĥ. Pro audio professionals have little interest in GPU comparisons.ģ. Single core performance is effectively identical for all M1 variants, so for tracking with native plugins, it has no special advantage.Ģ. The answer is… 20 cores is overkill for most, except those who rely heavily on virtual instruments. Nowhere do you really address the question in the title, the M1 Ultra chip’s specific suitability for pro audio work. So many are likely to wait for the new Mac Pro.ġ.

Without upgradability, it simply isn’t a sustainable and future-proof tool.

#M1 mac ableton upgrade

For professional studios looking to upgrade to an Apple silicon workstation, the Mac Studio just isn’t what we’ve been waiting for. Like so much tech aimed at the content creation market, it offers Swiss-Army knife solutions to a very impressionable audience.

Once you take a look at the reviews and benchmarks, you’re faced with the truth. The initial hype wave of the Mac Studio washed over us all, with impressive promises of performance. Does the Mac Studio make sense for home producers?

#M1 mac ableton software

Meanwhile, the built-in webcam is also subpar in the quality department, but at least Apple has promised to fix this with a software update. On top of that, the selection of stands is factory configured and cannot be altered after the fact – which sucks, frankly. The six-speaker system did not give you a particularly accurate image of Apple’s Spatial Audio format. Apart from the astronomical price tag, there were several aspects that simply didn’t cut it. The new Studio Display received mostly mixed reviews, while some were unconvinced, to say the least.