Thank you for sharing! I am a vocalist looking at getting this device to run logic pro for basic music production! Looking forward to watching your other videos!
Thanks Mark. I’m in a similar situation. I need a new broadcast mixing setup with Dante virtual sound card to ingest 64 channels into logic for waves plugin processing. Audinate has not even begun testing yet as they reported not having any M1 hardware in house.
I am not holding out much optimism for Dante coming to this quickly. I really need it also. However if you in Dante then my guess is that you are at 48K and most modest MBP's will track that providing you have good SSD and space. If however you are using Waves Mulitrack native then yes, you are going to need power. Have you seen may latency tests on this in previous (now old!) videos?
Great to see a true sound pro testing the M1 MBP!! Looking forward for your videos and comments! I am planning to buy the base M1 MB Air to replace my 2013 imac at home (studio). 🤪. Best!!
Hey Mark, thanks for this! Finally a proper pro-audio perspective on Apple Silicon M1; subscribed and looking forward to following your journey. What spec did you opt for?
Hi KL. 1TB SSD as I need the capture headroom in disc space. I went for the 16GB memory option. I have some testing done and hope to document tomorrow or over the weekend.
@@MarkPayneAudio Thanks for reply, Mark. M1 looks promising for Logic Pro and its native plugins ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KIAUiFoYPtQ.html. I guess long wait will be for native compatibility for 3rd party plugins. Pulled the trigger and ordered the same spec MBP as yourself after much deliberation vs the Mini. Arrives just in time for Xmas!
Hi Mark, very interesting vid, thank you for that. I use Logic for recording my songs... purely for fun. Nothing huge. Maybe 10 tracks. I’m currently using a 2014 MacBook Air with all plugins etc on a SSD. I get the occasional system overload, but nothing I can’t resolve. So I’m guessing the basic M1 pro would be wayyyy more efficient than my current gear, even with 8gb RAM (currently got 4gb and 121gb storage plus 500gb external ssd. 1.4ghz intel core i5). Could I trouble you for your thoughts?
I almost think 8GB is enough so 16GB will be fine for sure. This is backed up by many testers. I happen to think we should be going for 16GB in production world but many would still argue for 8GB being ok.
I've just come across your channel and have subscribed and will watch this play list - but - I wonder if you could do one on how this system compare to a the 64GB RAM intel Mac - needed for media composers who stream hundreds of sample library channels ( I just can't imagine a 16GB system being able to cope, in any way, with large sample library templates with hundreds of channels because RAM based sample streaming is the bottle neck - and these days 16GB RAM just doesn't cut it (my 2011 MBP has 16 GM RAM!). Thanks!
Hi Mark, looking forward to seeing your take on these new MacBooks. I’ve just ordered a m1 16gb ram, 512gb SSD MacBook Pro for use with logic so I’m interested in seeing how the plug-in situation develops.
Hi. I'm a full time music producer who makes music with an average of around 70 tracks, each track having atleast 3 to 4 processing plugins. I have been using a windows machine. Would like to switch to a macbook pro. Do you think the m1 is good enough to handle my needs?
Ok so, back when I had had the older 2012 15" MBP I needed the Waves server to take the plugin load. No way the system could handle it. Since getting the iMac Pro in my studio back in 2017(?) I found that I could run everything native. Its a much more elegant setup and of course will bounce as fast as the system will go rather than being restricted to real-time. On the live side I did tour with a waves server and Waves Multirack but I got bored with it. I do prefer to do everything in the console as it is a much more reliable way of working. I had one show where my windows Multirack machine decided to do the "1 of 120 Updates" thing 5 mins before a show. I got bored of yet another Waves Central update forcing me to update the firmware on MGB and Server etc.
