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Old 12-17-2020, 04:37 PM
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Very impressive! Did the Mac/trackpad get hot? Were the fans running at audible speeds?
No noticeable heat and the fan stayed completely silent.
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Old 12-17-2020, 04:38 PM
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No noticeable heat and the fan stayed completely silent.
Thanks a lot for the detailed info!
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Old 12-17-2020, 08:39 PM
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Default Re: Anyone tried Protools on an M1 mac yet?

The M1 Macs have been getting some impressive performance reports on Davinci Resolve. Seamlessly playing back multiple 4k video feeds with no stutter, etc... Even the cheapest most basic M1 Mac Mini.

I'm sure it will take Avid a year and a half to support them, and you'll have to buy a whole new subscription since they won't work on any older version.
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Old 12-17-2020, 10:42 PM
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I'm sure it will take Avid a year and a half to support them, and you'll have to buy a whole new subscription since they won't work on any older version.
You're probably right, but I'm done giving Avid money. The Macbook Pro isn't my main audio computer anyway, I was just experimenting.
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Old 12-28-2020, 03:17 PM
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Hi,

What's your experience with Apple M1 Computers and Pro Tools.

How well work third party plugins and is it stable?

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Old 12-29-2020, 11:27 AM
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Thanks for directing my newly opened topic to this thread :)

I don't understand why people need so much ram when doing audio production.

I do believe that, once M1 is officially supported, is going to be plenty when working with Audio.

My Windows machine has 32 Gigabytes and I mostly border at half it's capacity, mind you that Windows eats up more ram than Mac OS usually.

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Old 12-29-2020, 11:29 AM
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You're probably right, but I'm done giving Avid money. The Macbook Pro isn't my main audio computer anyway, I was just experimenting.
I've switched to Windows as well as my main rig but having such a battery efficient and well performing laptop is very enticing, especially given the price.

I'm actually nowadays more appalled by Avid's business practices.

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Old 12-29-2020, 11:46 AM
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Thanks for directing my newly opened topic to this thread :)

I don't understand why people need so much ram when doing audio production.
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Some VI's and plugins need more RAM than others. From what I've read about the MI machines, though, they are very CPU and RAM efficient. I have 64GB on my PC because I use lots of VI's and other plugins over a large track count. But even then, I'm almost always under 50%. I believe 16GB with the MI's would be just fine. I'm getting attracted!
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Old 12-29-2020, 01:03 PM
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Some VI's and plugins need more RAM than others. From what I've read about the MI machines, though, they are very CPU and RAM efficient. I have 64GB on my PC because I use lots of VI's and other plugins over a large track count. But even then, I'm almost always under 50%. I believe 16GB with the MI's would be just fine. I'm getting attracted!
I agree but with today's available track counts, people use way too many VIs and create overdubs upon overdubs with sometimes unnecessarily adding Elements to the composition which do not contribute but rather hurt the overall clarity and discernibility and make it impossible to make something stick out.

Later on during mixing, many of those elements are going to be muted or dialed down so you'd barely hear them anyways and that sometimes would more than half the instances of used VIs.

To me, 16 gb are fine, even for professional usage.

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Old 12-29-2020, 04:16 PM
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That’s all well and good for your use case, but that doesn’t work for everyone else. Some people require HUGE templates for film scores that require massive amounts of RAM.


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