Quantization of time is anti-musical. If you've EVER looked at a steady rock beat as played by humans at the actual "BPMs" you would _know this_ I wouldn't give a scintilla of a hint of an interest in someone telling me "why I should". It doesn't make the music 'too perfect', that's a foolish definition of perfect, since no human does it and in no music with that expectation (ie., intentionally robotic techno gets a pass) is it even a little bit desirable. If your expectation is accuracy rather than flubbing the time frequently and in your hurry need to do it live, learn to function better on the keyboard. A synth-action keyboard doesn't take a lot of muscle. A tuba is going to speak much_more_slowly than a smaller wind instrument and much more slowly still than a percussionist so it's reality that if we're going to act as orchestrator is a must-know. I adjust accordingly, situationally and intelligently. Faffing about with numbers isn't it.

Actually Mac uses more RAM than it needs when it’s free You should look at memory pressure on the left

I am right now super impatiently waiting for them to put the M4 chip in the Mac mini. Can’t believe they skipped the M3. I really want to build a new music recording system. Once in a while, I think about building a PC because I’m just tired of waiting for them to put the for Chip in the Mac mini or update the Mac mini in someway. Advice?

1700 Tracks? Why? 🤷‍♂️ I do not understand?! 🤷‍♂️ There are a max of 80 Instruments in an Orchestra. Okay, maybe 3 voices for “Long” “short” “pizzicato” … So max 240! If you work with some ensembles and some solo voices you can get away with much less! Adding the possibility to deactivate unused voices in Kontakt … I just do not believe someone will need 196 gb Ram or 1700 Voices ! Not even to recreate Wagner or Puccini! Okay , if you just been lazy and adding voices without a care… Maybe?

Thanks for the effort, as someone who is thinking about switching from an Windows machine to Mac Studio, this is quite a help with exactly the informations I wanted to hear! :-D

Massively helpful! Thank you! Liked, subbed, and shared! Greetings from Scotland! Cheers! 🏴‍☠🍻

Super helpful, thank you!

Thank you, well made and concise! I had seen the thread on vicontrol first and some of your other vids, great resource! Are we going to get that follow up on varying delays within a single instrument library/patch? :D

Like an oasis in the desert.

so I need to lower the pre-load buffer size of my VI called UVI Falcon. I don't have a buffer size. In Falcon's streaming menu, I get the hard drive type as Medium 5400rpm (default) and cache size of 40mb. I assume this is incorrect? My samples are stored on an external 2TB NVME TB3 SSDM currently connected to my mac mini, which has a read speed of 2000mb/s+, a lot higher than the 128GB internal SSD of my mac mini.

Cheers mate, this was a great help!!!

Excellent job, man!!! Thank you for your sharing.

1700 track per project ?😂😂😂

Great video, thank you so much! really helpful.

So I guess I'll get a Mac Studio with 64GB/512GB once the M4 Max comes out. And use Samsung T7 drives for storage.

Don't click on the upgrades too much. Pretty soon you'll be clicking to upgrade you

Great work! Thanks for sharing David!

Do you have any specific reason you recommend the m2 max as minimum spec? Because most daws cannot utilize the extra efficiency cores in the m2 macs so there's really no benefit whatsoever to choose an m2 over an m1. Other than the possible extra 1 year of support. But the cost savings justify that. There's also some midi issues with m2+ if you are using legacy usb. They've removed the legacy usb driver's and such for the m2 and up units. M1 still remains the best buy for musicians.

Currently on a M1 MBP 14", 16gb of RAM and 512gb HD. I'm not a composer that uses tons of VI's, but I record bands and use plug ins like most do. My only regret with this layout on this machine is I wish I got more HD space. The 16gb of RAM for me is more than enough for not only my music, but I tinker around with 3d design and printing as well. This machine handles that effortlessly. My mix sessions are typically somewhere around 30-60 tracks. Reaper's performance meter says I'm using about 1.2gb of RAM, and barely 10% of the CPU at only the most intense peaks.

I am using fl studio, what i have to do?

1700 tracks is an army.

man 192 gb of ram? thats insane.

Nice once man

Thanks, very good testing with pro insider tips.

thanks for the video. What do you think I should buy if my project consists no more than 25-30 tracks (VST instruments & Audio) Mac mini or it's better to save for Mac Studio? Thanks!

Maybe M1 Ultra?

Thank You. I just do different things, but it helped to assess Logic + FCP, USB + Thunderbolt usage. I think in 2024 waiting for M4 (new ARM-Core-Version) - bigger RAM (and stick with 1TB SSD - no endless budget).

It was PERFECT❤, could you try it with kiss the ring from dune 2 please?

what sample rate you used?

Do you expect a major performance increase in the Mac Studio with M3 Max?

That´s a perfect xplanation of humanity in virtual instruments!!!Thanks David

Thx for the effort !

going forward i'm only creating music with stuff that does not have offset delays.. i've had far too many long nights of headaches and motivation killing tedious work having to deal with them.. it literally destroys all my motivation to create music.

Thank you so much for this. 1 question, for those of us who don’t do orchestral recordings, how much ram is necessary? For instance, smooth jazz or trap production with a max of about 60 tracks. 🎹♥️

Wonderful video and thanks for taking time to do this. Just want confirm, you didn't load Cinematic Studio into Sine Player, right?? Seems like that was the implication when you moved the stuff over to the Sine Player. So, I am assuming you were just referring to the Orchestral tool Kontakt version tot the Sine Player version. Again, that's for this. I can't wait to see how the forthcoming M4 macstudios are going to blow the roof off.

Dude thank you so much for the time you took to make this video! Very helpful and informative as im in the market coming over from PC and these tests are exactly what i needed!! People like you make the world go 'round! I appreciate ya! :)

Formidable, merci ! ❤

Do you make enough profit from composing to justify the cost of maxing out the mac spec in this way?

Liked and subbed. This video is amazing ❤️🤘🏻

4:09 hoo boy I’ve worked with a few Macs in my day and I can’t say I have ever seen memory pressure so low even with so much memory is in use

Dont need a mac for composing, just a piano and a notebook

I use pro tools and just getting started Using VSL VI super package full libary do you recommend using cubase 12 or 13?

I like pirates song 🚩🏴‍☠️😁🤩⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I owe you my life.

You say the minimum you recommend for mac studio is m2 max , 64 gb ram and 1 tb ssd. Well, what about M1 ultra 64 gb ram and 1 tb ssd?

Thank you so much for the tests & this video! I've been using a huge PC with many MD drives (some on a dedicated PCI card) and my load times for orchestral libraries have become unbearable overtime. I guess a cluttered/old Windows installation does that, I might just make the switch! (and spend 2 weeks installing VSTs...)

hello david, i m interesting , where i can find La modern perc or any library icons, for metagrid pro ? <3

Thank you so much for this interview. It is so scarce out there. I totally feel you guys about the wrong side of composers business

You claim you had made a key command or shortcut for negative delay in Cubase! I can’t find that setting anywhere in Cubase, would you be able to explain how you did it?

Is this Leon from Blade Runner?