Mark Payne is the co founder and former Technical Director of SFL Group. One of the UK's leading Audio and Visual Systems suppliers both in terms of installation sales and production hire. SFL use and sell equipment from d&b audiotechnik, L-Acoustics, Midas, Yamaha and Digico to name a few. Mark is a mentor and trainer in the field of live audio production. Now that Mark is retired from his full time leadership role at SFL he has time for more work with bands and live events. This channel will present technical updates and training in the area of live event production, media and acoustics.
honestly I think there is a lot of misleading "wrong" information in your video dude :-) logic (as most other daws nowadays) is a "hybrid" or "dual" buffer daw and has been for a very long time. this means that changing the i/o buffer should not make a real difference when not live software monitoring a track and only playing back or mixing. when not monitoring a track the process buffer range (second "dual" buffer size) is used for processing. the main drawback of a big processing buffer is that you get latency between what you see and do with your mouse and when you hear it. cheers!
I run mostly Ableton 11 and can just about get by with my mac pro 3,1 8 core machine , but I’m finally looking to get a new machine for music / video , looking at the refurb market its a real toss up between a studio m1 max and m2 pro mini , both are similar price in the UK , but leaning towards the studio for its extra memory / ports , i think both can handle my audio workflow while standing on their heads so i dont really need the extra power of the M2 . Thanks for the video !
Thank you so much! - I've been struggling with "system overloads" so much on my M1 MacBook Air. I never thought to do some of these things.. I'm so glad I found this video
Can you recomend the MD 435 for voiceover and Audiobook production? My room isn’t bad, but not fully protected. Because of that, I wanted to go with a dynamic mic. I own already own the Sennheiser e865.
Mark, How are you finding the performance of the MBP M3 in comparison with the new distribution of performance and efficiancy cores. Is memory now becoming more a factor now over processing. Great vid. Im making the jump to M Series from Pentium but prices for high end M1's are nearly the same as the M3 pros/Max's
Your second test with the three waves plug-in was not the same because you had them split across different tracks..using different cores by default. All plugs in one track by default uses a single core.
2 YEARS!!! TWO!!!! Trying to get my system to stop crashing when opening or closing instruments! Had to run in Rosetta to make it SOMEWHAT stable! But this... IM IN TEARS!!! Seems to have solved my issue! HOLY COW!!! YOU... are a GENEIUS!!!!!
All the calculations are done by Apple. Obviously, they are smarter than everyone on and visiting this channel including myself. But then a sudden death always happens... And when it happens, PC laptops can cope with just buying another SSD module. But not Macbooks. That's the primary difference.
Great video! I think the most methodical way to decide on the steering block is to look at the track layout: - long and flowy track -> longer wheelbase -> zero trail - tight and twisty track -> shorter wheelbase -> standard trail Then adjust the stability and turn-in characteristics with camber, toe and diff settings. Ackermann if on is feeling spicy. Everything else will change too much at once and you start to lose reference points in your setup.
This was fantastic! I usually get a little sleepy talking computer performance but you got right down to providing useful information. I would be curious to hear your take on Vienna Ensemble Pro 7, integrating it with logic, either on one computer or networking others (using VEPRO7), and how composers with 100's of tracks/plugins can best utilize their CPU. Thank again.
please pin this comment as I actually figured out why. some plugins are stereo and mono. even when you create a stereo track (or you think you have) you still have to change the input to the double circlce which symbolises stereo. then both sterio/mono plugins will show(all plugins basically)
Did anyone catch all that? I got lost when he mentioned something about the rendering ZTE and coder xpc threads going into the CPU of the M2 Pro Studio and then back into the dropped framing which rendered the IUD and what was that again? And what was that about a black magic? This thing do voodoo???
I jumped on the Apple silicon bandwagon but my i7 8700k iMac out-performs the M2 Pro in Logic, with faster USB and SSD transfer speeds too and my MBP 2015 15" gives me better performance with live guitar plugins than the M2 as well. In my opinion Intel is still king when it comes to music production.
I just bought a new M1 max base studio. In dollar or pound equivalents I save 500 on the M2 max studio. So it was nearly the price of a M2 macmini pro base 16gb model but the max had 32gb stock and all those extra ports
Thanks for this! Based on what you said I did at bit of experimentation and also realized the following: Setting up a bus before the stereo out lets you divide up the load of the "mastering chain" on two cores (eg. for example mixbus compression and saturation on the bus, and then gullfoss, tape emu and limiting on the stereo out). It actually makes a huge difference (on an M2 Macbook pro) here.
