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Old 10-23-2019, 06:11 PM
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Default Why the new CPU you installed didn't improve Pro Tools performance

I was recently pointed towards this video, which does a good job describing the different factors in what makes a computer perform well with a DAW, compared to other resource-intensive programs.

CPU Performance Vs. Real-Time Performance in DAWs - YouTube

I highly recommend that anyone who uses as DAW should watch this. Please share with your networks. I would have put it in the PT 2019 forum, but I have a suspicion it would have been moved out.
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Old 10-24-2019, 08:31 AM
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Default Re: Why the new CPU you installed didn't improve Pro Tools performance

Thanks.
Interesting. Might seem like obvious stuff to many folks, but notice how he gets poorer performance when booting from a PCIe SSD than from a SATA spinner. 10 minutes or so into the video.
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It’s a SATA SSD not a spinner.
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It’s a SATA SSD not a spinner.
Sorry, I must have misunderstood.
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Old 10-24-2019, 12:21 PM
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The SATA bus is scanned first, which is why a SATA SSD boots faster (most of the time) than a PCIe SSD. This depends on if you mix HFS+ and APFS formatted drives. And some other details.
For everything else a PCIe SSD will blow everything away.
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I was recently pointed towards this video, which does a good job describing the different factors in what makes a computer perform well with a DAW, compared to other resource-intensive programs.

CPU Performance Vs. Real-Time Performance in DAWs - YouTube

I highly recommend that anyone who uses as DAW should watch this. Please share with your networks. I would have put it in the PT 2019 forum, but I have a suspicion it would have been moved out.

That was a very informative video. It has me wondering now if the issues I sometimes have with real time performance are caused by exactly the sort of issues he talked about here. Maybe its not my CPU after all. What I need to find out is everything that's hitting on my CPU besides my Pro Tools sessions. Thanks for sharing this video.
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That was a very informative video. Thanks for sharing this video.



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