Yours To Behold
Inspired
I was sort of bored, tired of shoveling, and the rain started so as I was working on my new Mac I wanted to know about other users experience.
I have the absolute base model Silicon M1 - 8gb ram, 256 HDD, and no added features beyond that I am aware of Apple offering.
I was initially very disappointed with the lack of development and developer speed in updating certain applications and more than anything, the VST world, particularly, as you all probably have seen by now, getting either AD2 or SD3 working in Cubase 10.5 Pro.
After further reading, it became clear that ditching [the windows 10 based and focused steinberg] cubase 10.5 pro, thought it ran through Rosetta 2, I was told I was putting unnecessary toll on resources, memory allocation, and overall CPU function and performance, which is why cubase 11 doesn't run at all on M1.
That was a hard decision because I had just spent about $300 for the silly, outdated dongle 10.5 Pro, and I bought a $300 VST that was basically Windows only (totally optimized for win 10, like Cubase, but no support for Mac Catalina+) so I was almost in the hole $600, or more like $500 with depreciation.
Furthermore, Logic Pro was optimized for the M1, and I didn't understand what that meant until I finally was able to sell my VST and Cubase, and not at a loss I couldn't stomach, because it fully funded Logic Pro ($225 w/tax) and as you may remember I bought AD2 for $100 give or take....so I broke even on the DAW/VST front allowing me to have no qualms with the shift from an entirely Windows 10 based i7 laptop/DAW/Studio to a Mac based studio. I now understand why so many people opt for Mac, and why so many Fractal users are Mac users.
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Most salient impression - the speed of the machine is unparalleled. I believe, and please correct me, but only eight or sixteen threaded i9 or Xenon processors were able to match or outperform the M1, and with a lot more ram on board too. I was going to spring the extra $200 for 16gb ram, but literally everyone said there was no point at all in doing so for a Logic Pro studio, unless I was doing serious 4k+ video editing and graphical rendering on a massive scale, which I will never do. in tests, the 8 and 16gb performance was negligible, only difference was, as indicated, timing of high graphic memory resource needed rendering was half the time, but that was it.
Anyone who wanted to get an M1, please don't hesitate. The machine is amazing, and I have turned into an Ardent apple fan because of this, going so far as to waste money on a Magic Mouse 2 and keyboard, which I really don't see the big deal about for $150+, but it syncs perfectly, and without hitch, just like: Fractal - its amazing how seamlessly the axe fx 3 works with Logic Pro and the Mac system, so much better than Windows for me at least.
Anyway, Ill just conclude by saying the biggest and best accident for my Axe Fx 3 was a Mac Silicon M1 chip. It has made my (Fractal based) studio so much funner to work in, and the speed and no DAW crashing or memory buffering or anything like that has never occurred once.
So, other Fractal fans, how has your migration to M1 been, and did you ditch whatever DAW you were working on to move to the amazingly optimized Logic Pro? I don't think it gets much better than an M1 chip, Logic Pro, and the pies de resistance : The mighty Axe Fx 3
PS side topic/off topic question - does the Axe Fx 3 (all makes) and Fm3 have some kind of "neural" DSP or CPU or something on board, because I saw Kemper fans in a little uproar elsewhere, and I don't understand what the issue was about really? You can side message me if you don't want to derail the topic, but I wanted to know what this neural DSP means?
I have the absolute base model Silicon M1 - 8gb ram, 256 HDD, and no added features beyond that I am aware of Apple offering.
I was initially very disappointed with the lack of development and developer speed in updating certain applications and more than anything, the VST world, particularly, as you all probably have seen by now, getting either AD2 or SD3 working in Cubase 10.5 Pro.
After further reading, it became clear that ditching [the windows 10 based and focused steinberg] cubase 10.5 pro, thought it ran through Rosetta 2, I was told I was putting unnecessary toll on resources, memory allocation, and overall CPU function and performance, which is why cubase 11 doesn't run at all on M1.
That was a hard decision because I had just spent about $300 for the silly, outdated dongle 10.5 Pro, and I bought a $300 VST that was basically Windows only (totally optimized for win 10, like Cubase, but no support for Mac Catalina+) so I was almost in the hole $600, or more like $500 with depreciation.
Furthermore, Logic Pro was optimized for the M1, and I didn't understand what that meant until I finally was able to sell my VST and Cubase, and not at a loss I couldn't stomach, because it fully funded Logic Pro ($225 w/tax) and as you may remember I bought AD2 for $100 give or take....so I broke even on the DAW/VST front allowing me to have no qualms with the shift from an entirely Windows 10 based i7 laptop/DAW/Studio to a Mac based studio. I now understand why so many people opt for Mac, and why so many Fractal users are Mac users.
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Most salient impression - the speed of the machine is unparalleled. I believe, and please correct me, but only eight or sixteen threaded i9 or Xenon processors were able to match or outperform the M1, and with a lot more ram on board too. I was going to spring the extra $200 for 16gb ram, but literally everyone said there was no point at all in doing so for a Logic Pro studio, unless I was doing serious 4k+ video editing and graphical rendering on a massive scale, which I will never do. in tests, the 8 and 16gb performance was negligible, only difference was, as indicated, timing of high graphic memory resource needed rendering was half the time, but that was it.
Anyone who wanted to get an M1, please don't hesitate. The machine is amazing, and I have turned into an Ardent apple fan because of this, going so far as to waste money on a Magic Mouse 2 and keyboard, which I really don't see the big deal about for $150+, but it syncs perfectly, and without hitch, just like: Fractal - its amazing how seamlessly the axe fx 3 works with Logic Pro and the Mac system, so much better than Windows for me at least.
Anyway, Ill just conclude by saying the biggest and best accident for my Axe Fx 3 was a Mac Silicon M1 chip. It has made my (Fractal based) studio so much funner to work in, and the speed and no DAW crashing or memory buffering or anything like that has never occurred once.
So, other Fractal fans, how has your migration to M1 been, and did you ditch whatever DAW you were working on to move to the amazingly optimized Logic Pro? I don't think it gets much better than an M1 chip, Logic Pro, and the pies de resistance : The mighty Axe Fx 3
PS side topic/off topic question - does the Axe Fx 3 (all makes) and Fm3 have some kind of "neural" DSP or CPU or something on board, because I saw Kemper fans in a little uproar elsewhere, and I don't understand what the issue was about really? You can side message me if you don't want to derail the topic, but I wanted to know what this neural DSP means?