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I love you.

I bought one. Abelton, renoise, Wavelab, and Cubase Pro 11 are working great but I'm waiting for Apogee to write the usb drivers so I can do multitrack stuff. The only two problems I'm having are that Max/MSP's Open GL is not working at all but this will most likely be fixed in the new program update. Also I only use about 12 or so plugins on a regular bases but they are not working at all because they are either 32 bit or I'm doing something wrong.
On a side note CIV VI is running really fucking good.

I am liking the look of things with the released-this-week MacBook pros and M1Pro/Max specs, and especially the return of ports!

This direction is a good direction.

It is too early for reports, but I am hoping that the fans turn on only when the GPU is being hit hard (these are geared towards video work obviously), something that might not be the case for audio work (unless Apple does something weird with the way logic works and whatnot - but I am not going to pretend that I understand this).

If the fans shut the fuck up then these are actually easily portable studio-grade machines.

I cannot wait to see what happens with the iMac Pro and Mac mini lines.

Would someone with money to burn please buy one of the new mb pros and throw a bunch of processor-heavy plugins on a big session and try to melt the thing?

Report back. Thanks!

But seriously some peeps over on gearspace are going to do this very thing. Let’s see : )

bishopdante wrote: Fri Oct 22, 2021 3:34 am You could probably just talk to the system management controller and tell that fan not to switch on.

You could then hit that chip with some CPU cycles, and find out what the thermal limit is.

A passive-cooled thermally-limited processor will still run pretty quick if you live in a deep freeze walk-in meat locker, so how fast any machine will run these days is environmentally-dependent, particularly if you're willing to pour liquid helium on the thing.

Generally speaking it's not too hard to just bung any laptop inside an empty flightcase and shut that fan up.

This is also why professional machines live in a soundproof machine room or machine cabinet.

Is overclocking and whatnot still a thing these days?

bishopdante wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 3:54 pm

seby wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:47 amIs overclocking and whatnot still a thing these days?

In essence, absolutely it's a thing. *everybody* does it these days – CPUs have a variable clock speed these days, self-overclocking was a feature called "TurboBoostTM" by Intel back in the Core Architecture era, about 15 years back, and these days all the chips from every manufacturer will run themselves up against the thermal limits, and over or under clock based on their thermal state.

Hence, all you have to do to overclock a chip these days is connect it to a meaty power supply, and keep it cool.

One advantage to our place not having heating then I guess