InstrEd Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 2 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said: Actually, I came for the free boo's Fixed that for you 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 There’s free booze? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 10 minutes ago, Fleer said: There’s free booze? Only if you call Budweiser booze and let Bill Inject his compliance chip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-53mph Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 19 minutes ago, Fleer said: There’s free booze? Did someone mention booze? Now, if I could get a side order of Mac with that.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluzdog Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Paul Young said: I think most of us in this thread are here for the drama kinda like Vi-control. No doubt, we haven't had this much drama in years! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 14 minutes ago, Philip G Hunt said: Did someone mention booze? Now, if I could get a side order of Macallan with that.... Mmmm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 So do we need to have a Thespian Membership to belong here with all this Drama 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 18 minutes ago, bluzdog said: No doubt, we haven't had this much drama in years! That's because this one reeks of fanboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-53mph Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 28 minutes ago, bluzdog said: No doubt, we haven't had this much drama in years! ...not since CbB released their last update ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) On to a few audio project examples To achieve as much disk-speed as possible, I connected an external M.2 NVMe to the second Thunderbolt port. Audio tracks and samples are streaming from this drive. Note about memory: The M1 Mac Mini isn't making use of the VM Swapfile... until you load it down pretty heavy. (More to come on this) As expected... at that point performance goes down significantly. What the M1 is doing is making use of RAM compression... to eek a bit more out of 16GB. I've got several instances of a stress-test... from heaviest load to more of a simple singer/songwriter demo. Here's a screen capture working on a simple singer/songwriter type demo. Studio One Pro v5 - Set to maximum drop-out protection Superior Drummer 3 - Ayotte kit Kontakt - The Grandeur Bass (recorded DI) using an instance of Helix Native Rhythm Guitar (recorded DI) using an instance of Helix Native Guitar Lead (recorded DI) using an instance of Helix Native 12.45GB (of the 16GB available) is being used.I The Studio One project is running at 96k using a 32-sample buffer size. With one (of three) instance of Helix Native being monitored in realtime (to record the guitar lead), it was pushing the M1 Mac Mini just about to the point where it'll glitch. Note that Studio One's green Z button was enabled (for lowest possible round-trip latency. After overdubbing that last guitar part, turning off realtime monitoring of Helix Native drops CPU use down to about 25%. That would give you plenty of headroom to overdub vocals/etc. The M1 Mac Mini performed very well in this example. I was able to record all the above with zero glitches... at 1ms total round-trip latency. In the above picture, notice that the Memory Pressure graph is in the "comfortable" green zone. Edited June 16, 2021 by Jim Roseberry 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antler Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 8 minutes ago, Jim Roseberry said: What the M1 is doing is making use of RAM compression... to eek a bit more out of 16GB. Interesting... does that mean it's draining CPU cycles to do the compression/decompression instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) Now, let's push the M1 Mac Mini... and see what happens when you purposely load it down with large sample libraries (that consume a lot of RAM). Here's a screen capture with the M1 Mac Mini loaded down. The purpose here is to find out where the RAM scheme starts to break down... so yes, it's purposely loaded to the gills. Studio One Pro v5 - Set to maximum drop-out protection Superior Drummer 3 - Ayotte kit Kontakt - The Grandeur Kontakt - Scarbee MM Bass Amped Kontakt - Scarbee Pre Bass Amped Kontakt - Symphony Series Percussion Kontakt - Session Strings Pro Kontakt - Symphony Series String Ensemble Kontakt - Symphony Series Brass Ensemble Kontakt - Symphony Series Solo Brass Quartet Kontakt - Session Horns Pro Kontakt - Symphony Series Woodwind Ensemble Kontakt - Symphony Series Solo Woodwind Quintet Audio track for guitar - Helix Native loaded (using same patch as in singer/songwriter project) Audio track for bass - Helix Native loaded (using same patch as in singer/songwriter project) With the RAM compression being implemented, it takes a good while for this project to fully load. I'd say a good couple of minutes. Note that this isn't reflected in the Studio One Project, you have to watch the results in Activity Monitor. With the same 96k 32-sample buffer setting, there's regular buffer overloads (glitches). This isn't surprising given the load at 1ms total round-trip latency. To eliminate the buffer overloads, you have to increase the buffer size to 256-samples. At that point, you can play The Grandeur and it's completely glitch-free. Notice that the Memory Pressure graph is now well into the orange. This is about as far as you can push the RAM scheme with the 16GB M1 Mac Mini. To push things even further (RAM wise), I opened Chrome with several tabs. This is when the M1 Mac Mini started to use the VM Swapfile It starts paging ~35MB... and over time creeps significantly upward (it's now up to 2.66GB) ≈ Edited June 16, 2021 by Jim Roseberry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 minute ago, antler said: Interesting... does that mean it's draining CPU cycles to do the compression/decompression instead? It has to take some amount of CPU... but it's not hampering performance in the singer/songwriter example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Still, what if you would only use Silicon native apps … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Native M1 silicon software https://isapplesiliconready.com https://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=157598 AAS RME Spire Bitwig Melda Hornet Valhalla FabFilter Pianoteq FL Studio Klevgrand AudioThing SugarBytes Xferrecords Apogee (MiC) MOTU M2 & M4 MOK Waverazor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 11 minutes ago, Fleer said: Native M1 silicon software https://isapplesiliconready.com https://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=157598 AAS RME Spire Bitwig Melda Hornet Valhalla FabFilter Pianoteq FL Studio Klevgrand AudioThing SugarBytes Xferrecords Apogee (MiC) MOTU M2 & M4 MOK Waverazor It wouldn't affect the amount of RAM used by sample-libraries. I'm sure it would be further CPU optimized. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Spectrasonics just got added Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 “The new support is significant, since it allows Spectrasonics users with M1-processor based Mac computers to utilize all of the powerful capabilities of the new technology and experience extraordinary performance at low buffer settings. Not only does this native Apple Silicon support allow significantly more instances of Spectrasonics plug-ins, but the major improvement in latency performance allows live performers to have a more reliable and immediate experience onstage - even with inexpensive off-the-shelf Apple laptops.” https://www.spectrasonics.net/news/news-content.php?id=125 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rintoul Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Fleer said: There’s free booze? That was what I was told. Edited June 16, 2021 by Doug Rintoul 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 So lets get things straight! If we go out and buy an M1 Mac Mini, we get free booze, correct? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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