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Man, I hit Subscribe button with extreme power after read your article. After 2 weeks looking for answers for that question about AMDxIntel thing for music production. (I was searching for articles in my language first, without sucess) THANK YOU FOR EXIST AND TO STUDY COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. Peace and love!
To be precise, we increase cores because the limit at which you can push the speed of the clock, reach a plateu where the thermal throttle start to reduce the frequency of the CPU to reduce the temperature. So since we can't go at 7 GHz with the current CPU architecture, without melt the case or throttle to a lower speed, we increase cores and run at lower speed each core.
Not many DAWs and Plug-ins can take advantage of multicore processing. Single core processing performance is the most important factor in music production.
Thank you for an excellent explanation of this! Longtime music producer but I never understood the mechanics and jargon behind what’s running my daw! Thanks again!
My Ryzen 5600x is pretty good, a small project will only use 10% cpu, I still haven't tested my latest setup with a large project but am thinking of future proofing by getting a 5900x.
DAW's benefit more from single core performance as they rely on serial processing instead of parallel. so a 6 core processor with better single core performance would work better than an 8core with less single core performance. But eventough intel is better at that, it is also the only thing it is better in at the moment. If you are looking to build your own desktop pc, AMD is just the better option, newest gen ryzen chips are not only better in everything else, it also saves up a lot of money, the cpu's and components such as motherboards are real money savers. i9-9900k=3.6GHz, 8cores, 16384 KB cache memory for about 570€ ryzen 9-3900x=3.8GHz, 12 cores, 65536 KB cache memory for about 450€
No that's not true (or only half the truth) I''ll explain in the article on my blog: www.learnhowtoproducemusic.com/blog-how-to-start-music-production/what-is-the-best-cpu-for-music-production-in-2020
In this moment when cpu max turbo four cores speed 4,9gHz but ram max speed 2666MHz vs 3,9gHz max turbo four cores and ram speed 3200Mhz. I mean i7 10510U vs 1065G7 what you think which procesor-ram combination have better performance for sound production? Thanks
Hey, I wanted to ask something, is Ryzen 3 3300x better for music production than Ryzen 7 2700? and the reason I am comparing these two is because of their Single-core performance, the 3300x has a faster single-core than the 2700 but 2700 has more cores.... so what should I go for more cores or faster single core performance?
really hard to say. some producers that think that single core speed is everything, that is often not the case. There are hardware benchmarks available on certain websites. You could try to get a better comparison there. Processors are such complicated things, you quickly compare apples to pears. generally: more cores the better, but above 8 cores you don't take much advantage of the extra cores, so above 8 cores: single core speed.
Thanks for the idea! But it's so hard with the current situation in the world and supply chains disrupted. Very hasitant to name components right now The general knowledge of my computer-for-music-2020 still applies
Came here after reading the article. 1st up the mention about x86 (32-bit) & that Intel were the originals & AMD were mimicking the instruction set & are the compatibles. Well it's the other way around these days, because AMD came out with x64 & Intel mimic it with EMT64/EM64T. There Intel is the compatible & AMD is the original. X64 is the future & x86 is fading in the past. Best to say they just both work with each well. Which is good with things like Jbridge allowing x86 vstis work in x64 DAWs & vice versa.
Hi Dexter, hope you're still replying on comments for this video. Any thoughts on STABILITY about Intel i9-10900 vs AMD Ryzen 3900X? Using Windows 10 and an RME FireFace UC (USB), Cubase and Pro Tools.
"AMD makes an implementation of an Intel instruction set" and Intel makes an implementation of an AMD instruction set, AMD64, AKA x64. X86 is basically deprecated at this point as barely any software is 32 bit now.
Hello! Which processor is better suited to work with a large number of vst instruments and fx? R7 3700X or R9 3900(non X)? Which is better to choose, more cores, but less frequency? Or More frequency and fewer cores?)) Thanks
it depends totally what you are going to do. a lot of Synthesizers? probably choose a better cpu. A lot of sample based instruments, choose more ram (unless you can expand later)
They will probably be using DAWS like Cubase and protocols and definitely adobe audition to record. Would it be enough? And sure some good quality vsts once in a while.
Thinking of buying the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Box. Any problems?? I work mainly on Reaper with Kontakt, Battery, Reaktor, Plugin Alliance, Slate Digital, Arturia and more.. Mobo: ASUS ROG Strix X470-F RAM: 32gb 4xSSD: 2x500gb, 2x1tb
Any experiences with the U-series of AMD Ryzen 7 or 5 processors (4700U, 3700U, 4500U or 3500U) for lighter laptops in relation to music production and DAWs?
AMD Ryzen 9 3950x VS Intel Core i9-10900K AMD Ryzen 9 3900x VS Intel Core i9-9900K AMD Ryzen 7 3700x VS Intel Core i7-9700K AMD Ryzen 5 3600 VS Intel Core i7-8700K Which one would offer the lowest latency?
Currently building a new desktop exclusively for music production, I was planning on a 10th gen i7 10700 with 64 gb of ram. My question is would the 10th gen i9 10900 really be worth the extra money considering I am only going to use this build for music or is the i7 plenty?
Dexxter Clark Music thanks so much for the feedback, that’s what I was thinking as well. Thanks again and keep it up your content is very insightful and helpful!
hi, i7-10700 vs i7-10700k for audio. Would there be much difference in performance of one over the other? Which would be better in relation to performance / price? Would you save a lot on your electricity bill with the non (k) version? Thank you.
Hi, very helpful video. What do you think about this configuration: DELL Optiplex 9010 Desktop, Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz/ 24GB RAM/ 240GB SSD+500GB/ DVD/ Windows 10 Pro - Refurbished. would that last for music production?
i have the 3770k,32 gb ddr3 ram,500 ssd and motu m4.i tried 8 serum with a compressor,eq and reverb on ableton live lite10 and its around 17% on cpu meter.if you dedicate this for music production and not bog down with other bloatwares you should be ok.I have this pc for around 10 years lol and still serving well.I would advise though if you could save more you should aim for the last gen ryzen since its is so much cheaper than the current gen.try going for at least 6/12 or 8/16 core/threads.
Alienware m15 15.6 inch FHD Gaming Laptop (Lunar Light) Intel Core i7-10750H 10th Gen, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB SSD, Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 Super 8GB GDDR6, Windows 10 Home (AWm15-7418WHT-PUS). Would this work good for FL studio
very informative video...will an older generation of Core 2 Quad Q9650 work well for MAO on an old computer I have at home with 8g of ram?...I want to take this old unit to the rehearsal room so to quickly record band practice... and surely do the extensive use of plugins and mixing on another computer one at home
I am thinking to build a pc specifically to run Ableton Live! I was thunking of using the Intel i7 9800x CPU + Asus Prime X299-A motherboard! Any experiences with this????
Hey dexxter, thanks for halting my purchase for the i9 I for one feel fooled but I havnt made the purchase just yet. I want to run a novation sl61 mk3 what would you suggest please? I was going to purchase the i9 bundle on amazon I think it come with a z390 F
3rd up Yes, Xeons are just very expensive versions of i9/i7/i5 CPUs. However, the 2nd user market is very inexpensive, oddly. They 'bin' cores a process to find the best (& worst) cores produced. The best are usually the ones that can run the fastest (speed binning) but also run the coolest. Because Xeons are business workstation & server CPUs they get the best & cooler running cores. Xeons usually run cooler than i7/i5s because of this. This is obviously good for overclocking as they run at good speed in bin test & keep a lot cooler to boot. Logical to think laptops would need cooler running cores next. Some of the i7/i5s would get the surplus best cores but most would get decent so, so cores in comparison. The worst cores would go to the budget chips like Pentium & Celeron. Sometimes a batch of cores are so good as a whole, there is not much difference from cpu to CPU. Likely when the overclockable Pentiums & celerys appear.
Dexxter! Quick question. Is an 10th gen 1065g7 i7 quad core processor even useable if it’s base clock is 1.3ghz? I’d be using a laptop with a 512 ssd and 16gb of ram. From everything I gather it seems like this might be very low. The turbo boost can clock up to 3.9 but after watching this video it appears that may be irrelevant. Help please!
Oh, also, I’m running cakewalk. My projects are usually between 40-50 tracks. And about 1/3 of those are virtual instruments with more focus on audio. But I do intend to use a decent amount of plugin effects as well as the Arturia analog lab v suit etc. just trying to give as much detail and info as possible. My 7 year old i5 HDD laptop just won’t cut it.
is either i5 8250u or i7 8665u series enough ? or is it better to have older processor but with Hq series maybe? it's just im unable to find a slim laptop with hq series and i hate to have anything over around 4 pounds
@@DexxterClarkMusic what im asking is are any of those enough? i mean ive heard that u series are not good for work related stuff because they're simply not so powerful. but is it better to have a newer less powerful 8th gen u series than for example older 6th gen more powerful ones ?
Thank you for the helpful video .Would Vienna Pro across two or three cheaper systems work as well ? Looking forward to USB -C or thunderbolt implementation in my next build .
Hai sir.. i have found a laptop with deskstop processor i5 10040 6c/12t, if compare with another laptop that have i7 10750H mobile intel. Which one is better for ableton ?
I answer the AMD vs Intel question in a separate video that is on my blog: www.learnhowtoproducemusic.com/blog-how-to-start-music-production/the-best-processor-for-music-production-amd-or-intel for performance comparison for the specific processor look up the comparison graphs on the internet
Hey, I've got a question. I hope you or someone else could help me. Recently someone made me a new pc with some used parts of my old pc in it. It contains the following processor: intel(R) pentium(R) gpu 3460 @3.50 Ghz Besides that it has 12 GB Ram The person who made me this pc said it would be faster and better than my old pc, because it had a lot of CPU overload. It is a lot faster but this pc also has a lot of CPU overload. When i run a few serum plugins at the same time, the CPU is allready overloading and it really fucks up my workflow. is that because of the processor is too slow or too weak? BTW, with a good processor, is it possible to run like 10 serums at the same time with a lot of voices? Hope you guys can give me some answers, thanks in advance.
Hi Dexxter! I use your videos to learn and increase my knowledge. In addition, I am about to invest on a new high-end PC for music production. I was just wondering if an Intel Core of 10th generation i7-10510U with a processor base frequency of 1.80 Ghz and 4 cores would be great enough considering that I am planning to keep this new PC for some years. The processor would be paired with 16 gb of RAM and 1 TB of SSD of course! As you teached us :)
First of all,i really like Your videos! Not to technical, but still technical enough. And now the question part. I have a HP 250 G6 15.6" laptop with i5 7200u (2 cores,4 thread at 2.5 GHz, 24 GB DDR4 2666 RAM, 500 Gb Samsung EVO 860 SSD and 500 Gb WD HDD) and of course a 27" FHD 2nd monitor. Is this setup a "good" base for beginning? I like to extend my setup with a pair of Mackie CR4 speakers, (i have a small 3mx3m room), NI Komplete Audio 1, and with an AKAI MPK Mini MK2. But still can't decide between FL Studio or Ableton Live. I'm new to these DAW's, but i like them both. My genre would be eletronic music (techno,deep/progressive and hardtechno/schranz) I know... Not a "mainstream" genre,but.. That's me.. 😉 I like to know Your opinion abut these components, is it good so, or should i change something. Thanks in advance! Let that videos comming! 👍
thanks. choose ableton, if you need to change DAW later it will make your life a lot easier. FL studio is so "strange" in so many workflows... 24 GB of memory, you sure? Choose a processor with more cores
@@DexxterClarkMusic awesome. Thanks for all the tips in your videos btw. I’m looking at an 8 core i7 10th gen 16g RAM 1T SSD computer at the moment. It’s a pricey buy but, I have a feeling it’ll be good for what I need it for. I make ambinet music, I use a lot of plugins and vsts so, I need a powerful cpu. Your videos have been extremely helpful. Thanks again!
I have videos about specs for pcs: th-cam.com/video/THcS2iU2TC4/w-d-xo.html I made this one last year: th-cam.com/video/Qk_lhtQps3M/w-d-xo.html You probably only need a newer processor and motherboard
@@moloypratimdas i dont hold accountability to their response. That was what they informed me. if u think u got something different, go ahead and ask them out.
If this is still interesting... I run a 3400g with cubase 11. It sucks the living hell. I run toontrack drums and literally everything else is done. Don't go for AMD with interested graphics at least. X600 /X700 and up
Everyone thinks that single core is more important for processing in music making, but in reality, I didn't see this difference, even frequency is not more important than core and cache. For example, the xeon 2680 v4, which is very cheap, works even better than the i9 9900k. The only thing I did not understand is why Zeon CPUs are cheap but have high performance@@DexxterClarkMusic
As Dexxter says, it depends on what exactly you want to do. To give you a ballpark, I estimate that you should be able to run a good eq and compressor on each track, have a couple of reverbs, and probably also eq and compression on the master, if you work at 44.1kHz or 48kHz sample rate.
Same here, I have a Ryzen7 1st gen @3.2Ghz 16Gb RAM, so far I haven't had any plugin issue. Can run smoothly Serum, Omnisphere, Dune3, FabFilter FX's, Ozone9 and many others.
You have great videos, thank you. I do need help with something though. I have a surface laptop 2 with 8gb RAM and an i7 processor. (And 256 gb storage with tons of headroom). I'm trying to run analog lab V in ableton live 11. Just opening that software puts my CPU up to around 30-50% and then playing a 2 instrument sound completely overloads it. Even just a few notes of midi. I can't even bounce it out to audio because I cannot even play without it overloading and clipping. I just don't understand, my laptop is okay, it's about a year old and I overpaid $1600 for it!! I barely use it for anything, and I've tried to optimize both the ram and cpu and this still happens. I just watched your other video which you discussed how large sample based instruments are, analog lab I believe is synthesized. is the problem that it's loading every synth on analog lab and I could disable that somehow? Maybe instead of opening the program I could somehow just choose the preset I want to use and then load that into ableton rather than the whole analog lab? Any info would really be fantastic, thank you very much!
I dont know the plugin, nor ableton extremely well. You could try other plugins on the same midi-notes and see if it makes a difference (just to see if the plugin is too cpu-cycle heavy). People keep using laptops and expect amazing results, but that is not what they are made for. And on top of that the processors in Surface machines are generally not very powerful, even the i7. But I have to admit, 2 plugins is not much. Bouncing out should slow the music down to a speed that the cpu can cope with, so it could be something else (motherboard, usb driver, windows updates .... there are 100s of processes running on a computer)
Hello, I'd like to know how 1.6 GHz 4 core stands against 2.3 GHz dual core ? Both are intels. It's for a budget laptop. Would it be more or less the same thing or one is more preferable than another?
@@DexxterClarkMusic Thanks for the quick answer!!. Yes i know, it's a bare minimum, but at the moment that's what i can afford, and really all i need is just 5 tracks, or maybe 10 at most in Cubase, not the proffessional musician here.. so i hope that will be enough for that with that little i5 , 8gb RAM and SSD disk to handle
I have a 8 Core Intel Xeon W 3.2Ghz in my iMac Pro and 2.6 6core i7 in my 16" MacBook Pro while my PC is an AMD Threadripper 3970x 32 core beast.. .Is that enough ?
Dexxter Clark most of my work is orchestrating, transcribing, scoring and some occasional production work. It’s a bit overkill but when I’m not doing music I’m doing Photography.
I Definitely want an intel, for my own various compatibility reasons. I’m deciding on i5-9600k (6 cores/ threads), or whether the upgrade to i7-9700k (8 c/t) is worth it. Any opinion? It’s a 150€ difference and I’m wondering whether the i5 might be plenty powerful
@@DexxterClarkMusic is z600 with dual x5670, 24gb ram and ssd ok? I noticed that Cubase doesn't take advantage of my xeons.I have a lynx Aurora16 with awesome drivers and yet the ASIO meter is maxed out, while processors show 16% of usage.I on the max buffer setting on my lynx AES16 card.Win7 64.
Hiding your likes and dislikes always makes your channel look bad. You should not dance around an answer you simply cannot provide. I’ll be avoiding your channel from here on.
Thank you for an excellent explanation of this! Longtime music producer but I never understood the mechanics and jargon behind what’s running my daw! Thanks again!
🔴More CPU details in my article: www.learnhowtoproducemusic.com/blog-how-to-start-music-production/what-is-the-best-cpu-for-music-production-in-2020
🎥 PLAYLIST: best computer (components) for music:
th-cam.com/play/PLO0we5bJUGNLtLzjZcNsNmewpQx8ielIx.html
Man, I hit Subscribe button with extreme power after read your article. After 2 weeks looking for answers for that question about AMDxIntel thing for music production. (I was searching for articles in my language first, without sucess) THANK YOU FOR EXIST AND TO STUDY COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. Peace and love!
Now I'll buy a 10th Gen Intel for my nem home studio PC
Amd ryzen 5 3500x 6 core is good for music production or not ?? Plz reply me ..
Amd ryzen 5 3500x 6 core 35mb cache is good for music production or not ?? Plz reply me ..
To be precise, we increase cores because the limit at which you can push the speed of the clock, reach a plateu where the thermal throttle start to reduce the frequency of the CPU to reduce the temperature. So since we can't go at 7 GHz with the current CPU architecture, without melt the case or throttle to a lower speed, we increase cores and run at lower speed each core.
Not many DAWs and Plug-ins can take advantage of multicore processing. Single core processing performance is the most important factor in music production.
i7 dual core 3.0 is going well with music production?
Thank you for an excellent explanation of this! Longtime music producer but I never understood the mechanics and jargon behind what’s running my daw! Thanks again!
My Ryzen 5600x is pretty good, a small project will only use 10% cpu, I still haven't tested my latest setup with a large project but am thinking of future proofing by getting a 5900x.
DAW's benefit more from single core performance as they rely on serial processing instead of parallel. so a 6 core processor with better single core performance would work better than an 8core with less single core performance.
But eventough intel is better at that, it is also the only thing it is better in at the moment. If you are looking to build your own desktop pc, AMD is just the better option, newest gen ryzen chips are not only better in everything else, it also saves up a lot of money, the cpu's and components such as motherboards are real money savers.
i9-9900k=3.6GHz, 8cores, 16384 KB cache memory for about 570€
ryzen 9-3900x=3.8GHz, 12 cores, 65536 KB cache memory for about 450€
No that's not true (or only half the truth)
I''ll explain in the article on my blog: www.learnhowtoproducemusic.com/blog-how-to-start-music-production/what-is-the-best-cpu-for-music-production-in-2020
Colin Y so which one is faster bro?? I’m tryna make some fira beatss 🔥🥵🔥🥵🔥🥵
@@coliny7027 is there much difference in amd 3900x and 3700x for daws? Other than pure performance and longevity it’s not that important to me
3:00 turbo boost is not used when opening a website. If your cpu cooler is good enough, you can run cpu at boosted frequency for a long time.
Boosting your CPU isn't temporary. But the video was helpful thanks.
I'm going with:
MOTHERBOARD- Z490 Vision D
CPU - i9 10900k
RAM -16gb x4 HyperX Predator 3200mhz
STORAGE -970pro 1TB NVMe m.2
...
In this moment when cpu max turbo four cores speed 4,9gHz but ram max speed 2666MHz vs 3,9gHz max turbo four cores and ram speed 3200Mhz. I mean i7 10510U vs 1065G7 what you think which procesor-ram combination have better performance for sound production? Thanks
Sir Intel i5 2nd generation processor is enough for Cubase?
Hey, I wanted to ask something, is Ryzen 3 3300x better for music production than Ryzen 7 2700? and the reason I am comparing these two is because of their Single-core performance, the 3300x has a faster single-core than the 2700 but 2700 has more cores.... so what should I go for more cores or faster single core performance?
really hard to say.
some producers that think that single core speed is everything, that is often not the case.
There are hardware benchmarks available on certain websites.
You could try to get a better comparison there.
Processors are such complicated things, you quickly compare apples to pears.
generally: more cores the better, but above 8 cores you don't take much advantage of the extra cores, so above 8 cores: single core speed.
Could you make an updated 2020 Music Production build video? Maybe do a poll to see if people want to watch that. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks for the idea!
But it's so hard with the current situation in the world and supply chains disrupted. Very hasitant to name components right now
The general knowledge of my computer-for-music-2020 still applies
Just purchased a
27" Imac, 16GB, 3.8GHz, i7, 1TB SSD,10gen 8Core + Logic Pro (Hows that?) ...Thx for your help 👍🏾
you are welcome :)
Came here after reading the article.
1st up the mention about x86 (32-bit) & that Intel were the originals & AMD were mimicking the instruction set & are the compatibles. Well it's the other way around these days, because AMD came out with x64 & Intel mimic it with EMT64/EM64T. There Intel is the compatible & AMD is the original. X64 is the future & x86 is fading in the past. Best to say they just both work with each well. Which is good with things like Jbridge allowing x86 vstis work in x64 DAWs & vice versa.
I only record vocals over instrumentals. about 15 tracks max with no mixing. is 6 core, 1.8 GHz enough to handle something like that?
thank you for being so helpful with your informing videos!
You are so welcome!
Hi Dexter, hope you're still replying on comments for this video.
Any thoughts on STABILITY about Intel i9-10900 vs AMD Ryzen 3900X?
Using Windows 10 and an RME FireFace UC (USB), Cubase and Pro Tools.
no real thoughts
"AMD makes an implementation of an Intel instruction set" and Intel makes an implementation of an AMD instruction set, AMD64, AKA x64. X86 is basically deprecated at this point as barely any software is 32 bit now.
Amd ryzen 5 3500x is good for music production or not ?? Plz reply me ..
Hello! Which processor is better suited to work with a large number of vst instruments and fx?
R7 3700X or R9 3900(non X)?
Which is better to choose, more cores, but less frequency? Or More frequency and fewer cores?)) Thanks
You have to consult the processor spec sites to be sure.
Generally speaking more cores (
Hey do you think the i5 9300H is good for music production?
Thanks for video. Is the i5 10400 and 16gb ram enough for semiprofessional music production?
it depends totally what you are going to do. a lot of Synthesizers? probably choose a better cpu.
A lot of sample based instruments, choose more ram (unless you can expand later)
but your current config will work, no doubt.
new video coming this or next week about the topic
They will probably be using DAWS like Cubase and protocols and definitely adobe audition to record. Would it be enough? And sure some good quality vsts once in a while.
Thinking of buying the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Box. Any problems??
I work mainly on Reaper with Kontakt, Battery, Reaktor, Plugin Alliance, Slate Digital, Arturia and more..
Mobo: ASUS ROG Strix X470-F
RAM: 32gb
4xSSD: 2x500gb, 2x1tb
Go with R5 3600 x does not make sense nly 2-3% boost but price is much higher or better save money go with R7 3700x real beast
Bro one doubt...... R5 3600 xt vs i5 10600 k ..... For music production
Any experiences with the U-series of AMD Ryzen 7 or 5 processors (4700U, 3700U, 4500U or 3500U) for lighter laptops in relation to music production and DAWs?
Ryzen it's AMAZING... Unbelievably fast and reliable. Only thing I'll use from here on
How about Threadripper 1920X? i want to buy Pro Tools and use it with this Threadripper
Is a amd ryzen 5 5500u it is good for music production?
AMD Ryzen 9 3950x VS Intel Core i9-10900K
AMD Ryzen 9 3900x VS Intel Core i9-9900K
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x VS Intel Core i7-9700K
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 VS Intel Core i7-8700K
Which one would offer the lowest latency?
Currently building a new desktop exclusively for music production, I was planning on a 10th gen i7 10700 with 64 gb of ram. My question is would the 10th gen i9 10900 really be worth the extra money considering I am only going to use this build for music or is the i7 plenty?
I don't think so.
Yes it's faster, but the added cost is not worth the added speed in my opinion
Dexxter Clark Music thanks so much for the feedback, that’s what I was thinking as well. Thanks again and keep it up your content is very insightful and helpful!
Why on earth would you need 64gb RAM?!
I3 9100F 9th gen processor will be okey for music production?
no
video gives the answer
hi, i7-10700 vs i7-10700k for audio.
Would there be much difference in performance of one over the other?
Which would be better in relation to performance / price?
Would you save a lot on your electricity bill with the non (k) version?
Thank you.
the K is a bit faster because you can overclock it.
if it is noticable... probably not
@@DexxterClarkMusic Thank you. in the case of choosing the K version would not overclock. I understand then that there won't be a big difference
Hi, very helpful video. What do you think about this configuration: DELL Optiplex 9010 Desktop, Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz/ 24GB RAM/ 240GB SSD+500GB/ DVD/ Windows 10 Pro - Refurbished. would that last for music production?
a 3rd gen i7, it will work, but a processor is so important, I would opt for something more recent
@@DexxterClarkMusic thx for the advise. Your video is very good and clear ✔️
i have the 3770k,32 gb ddr3 ram,500 ssd and motu m4.i tried 8 serum with a compressor,eq and reverb on ableton live lite10 and its around 17% on cpu meter.if you dedicate this for music production and not bog down with other bloatwares you should be ok.I have this pc for around 10 years lol and still serving well.I would advise though if you could save more you should aim for the last gen ryzen since its is so much cheaper than the current gen.try going for at least 6/12 or 8/16 core/threads.
Alienware m15 15.6 inch FHD Gaming Laptop (Lunar Light) Intel Core i7-10750H 10th Gen, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB SSD, Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 Super 8GB GDDR6, Windows 10 Home (AWm15-7418WHT-PUS). Would this work good for FL studio
yes. the monitor might be on the small side
What's more important, the QUANTITY of cores or the SERIES of the processor? Like is an 8-core i5 processor better than a 4-core i9 processor?
no you can't compare this way.
so much factors into play.
but i recommend always the latest gen processor (10th gen right now)
Do you overclock the cpu while making music and mixing in PC?
no for stability reasons.
We are crashing enough as it is!
@@DexxterClarkMusic Thank you.
very informative video...will an older generation of Core 2 Quad Q9650 work well for MAO on an old computer I have at home with 8g of ram?...I want to take this old unit to the rehearsal room so to quickly record band practice... and surely do the extensive use of plugins and mixing on another computer one at home
I am thinking to build a pc specifically to run Ableton Live! I was thunking of using the Intel i7 9800x CPU + Asus Prime X299-A motherboard! Any experiences with this????
Intel i5 10 th gen or ryzen 5 4600h sir? Please reply
So which is better for music production intel or AMD?
someone should make a video about it
Hey dexxter, thanks for halting my purchase for the i9 I for one feel fooled but I havnt made the purchase just yet. I want to run a novation sl61 mk3 what would you suggest please? I was going to purchase the i9 bundle on amazon I think it come with a z390 F
what do you think about a Intel Core i7-10510U for having 30 tracks with plug-ins?
depends entirely on which plugins you are using
but probably it will be fine
Hi is i9 11900k 2.4ghz. Good for music production
yes
Do you think i7856OU it's enough with 16GB of ram ? I like to make orchestral Music with a lot of instruments.
cpu enough yes. but upgrade ram
3rd up Yes, Xeons are just very expensive versions of i9/i7/i5 CPUs. However, the 2nd user market is very inexpensive, oddly.
They 'bin' cores a process to find the best (& worst) cores produced. The best are usually the ones that can run the fastest (speed binning) but also run the coolest. Because Xeons are business workstation & server CPUs they get the best & cooler running cores. Xeons usually run cooler than i7/i5s because of this. This is obviously good for overclocking as they run at good speed in bin test & keep a lot cooler to boot. Logical to think laptops would need cooler running cores next. Some of the i7/i5s would get the surplus best cores but most would get decent so, so cores in comparison. The worst cores would go to the budget chips like Pentium & Celeron. Sometimes a batch of cores are so good as a whole, there is not much difference from cpu to CPU. Likely when the overclockable Pentiums & celerys appear.
Still using my Skylake i7 6700k, 4,5GHz on all four cores
What daw are you using ??
Ableton 10 and Cubase 10
Dexxter! Quick question. Is an 10th gen 1065g7 i7 quad core processor even useable if it’s base clock is 1.3ghz? I’d be using a laptop with a 512 ssd and 16gb of ram. From everything I gather it seems like this might be very low. The turbo boost can clock up to 3.9 but after watching this video it appears that may be irrelevant. Help please!
Oh, also, I’m running cakewalk. My projects are usually between 40-50 tracks. And about 1/3 of those are virtual instruments with more focus on audio. But I do intend to use a decent amount of plugin effects as well as the Arturia analog lab v suit etc.
just trying to give as much detail and info as possible. My 7 year old i5 HDD laptop just won’t cut it.
it will run, no doubt, but more powerful cpu are. ..... well .... more powerful
is either i5 8250u or i7 8665u series enough ? or is it better to have older processor but with Hq series maybe? it's just im unable to find a slim laptop with hq series and i hate to have anything over around 4 pounds
always the i7 over the i5 in the same series. but lookup comparison graphs on the internet to make sure
@@DexxterClarkMusic what im asking is are any of those enough? i mean ive heard that u series are not good for work related stuff because they're simply not so powerful. but is it better to have a newer less powerful 8th gen u series than for example older 6th gen more powerful ones ?
Thank you for the helpful video .Would Vienna Pro across two or three cheaper systems work as well ? Looking forward to USB -C or thunderbolt implementation in my next build .
check the system specs on the site of the software maker
hi i need tb4 to run a uad apollo which motherboard you recommend
Should I go with 16 gb or 32gb
32gb, if apple: 64gb
@@DexxterClarkMusic what about 16gb i9 or 32gb i9
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i5 with 8 gb ram in my macbook pro is it ok for music production?
depends on what your plans are
Hai sir.. i have found a laptop with deskstop processor i5 10040 6c/12t, if compare with another laptop that have i7 10750H mobile intel. Which one is better for ableton ?
generally the i7, but lookup the performance on a CPU comparison site to know for sure
amd ryzen 3750h or intel i7 9750h , quality/price , wich is better?
I answer the AMD vs Intel question in a separate video that is on my blog: www.learnhowtoproducemusic.com/blog-how-to-start-music-production/the-best-processor-for-music-production-amd-or-intel
for performance comparison for the specific processor look up the comparison graphs on the internet
New ryzen 4900 hs is out!it is 1500 $ .And faster than a i9 9880 hk .
I7 10700K and 24 gb ram is good?
yup
Excellent - thanks!
You're welcome!
Will intel i7 7820hq (7th generation) be good enough?
depends totally on what you want to do, but it will get you a long way
how bout Ryzen 7 5700x vs i5 13500?
Hey is the Intel Core i7 9th generation good enough for FL Studio 20
And how mush can I do with it.
yes, depends entirely on your plugins and how much you intent to use simultaneously
Hey, I've got a question. I hope you or someone else could help me.
Recently someone made me a new pc with some used parts of my old pc in it.
It contains the following processor: intel(R) pentium(R) gpu 3460 @3.50 Ghz
Besides that it has 12 GB Ram
The person who made me this pc said it would be faster and better than my old pc, because it had a lot of CPU overload.
It is a lot faster but this pc also has a lot of CPU overload. When i run a few serum plugins at the same time, the CPU is allready overloading and it really fucks up my workflow. is that because of the processor is too slow or too weak?
BTW, with a good processor, is it possible to run like 10 serums at the same time with a lot of voices?
Hope you guys can give me some answers, thanks in advance.
Just buy an intel i3 10th gen or ryzen 3. Your processor is too weak man
Hi Dexxter! I use your videos to learn and increase my knowledge. In addition, I am about to invest on a new high-end PC for music production. I was just wondering if an Intel Core of 10th generation i7-10510U with a processor base frequency of 1.80 Ghz and 4 cores would be great enough considering that I am planning to keep this new PC for some years. The processor would be paired with 16 gb of RAM and 1 TB of SSD of course! As you teached us :)
Thanks for watchin the video(s) :)
Yes it will be good!
Thank you sir i want buy some because my laptop is intel first gen👍
glad I could help :)
First of all,i really like Your videos! Not to technical, but still technical enough. And now the question part. I have a HP 250 G6 15.6" laptop with i5 7200u (2 cores,4 thread at 2.5 GHz, 24 GB DDR4 2666 RAM, 500 Gb Samsung EVO 860 SSD and 500 Gb WD HDD) and of course a 27" FHD 2nd monitor. Is this setup a "good" base for beginning? I like to extend my setup with a pair of Mackie CR4 speakers, (i have a small 3mx3m room), NI Komplete Audio 1, and with an AKAI MPK Mini MK2. But still can't decide between FL Studio or Ableton Live. I'm new to these DAW's, but i like them both. My genre would be eletronic music (techno,deep/progressive and hardtechno/schranz) I know... Not a "mainstream" genre,but.. That's me.. 😉 I like to know Your opinion abut these components, is it good so, or should i change something. Thanks in advance! Let that videos comming! 👍
thanks.
choose ableton, if you need to change DAW later it will make your life a lot easier.
FL studio is so "strange" in so many workflows...
24 GB of memory, you sure?
Choose a processor with more cores
Is a 6 core i5 better then quad core i7 for music production?
depends on a couple of factors.
Cache and generation to name a few
If you want to know for sure look up CPU comparison graphs on the internet
@@DexxterClarkMusic awesome. Thanks for all the tips in your videos btw. I’m looking at an 8 core i7 10th gen 16g RAM 1T SSD computer at the moment. It’s a pricey buy but, I have a feeling it’ll be good for what I need it for. I make ambinet music, I use a lot of plugins and vsts so, I need a powerful cpu. Your videos have been extremely helpful. Thanks again!
I have 8 gb ram ddr3 i7 2700k but my cpu is over loading when using a heavy vst like omnisphere 8 times idk what to do pls help
freezing of buy a new computer
Is it posible that you would makeup a strong music production desktop so we can copy and build it by ourselfs?
I have videos about specs for pcs: th-cam.com/video/THcS2iU2TC4/w-d-xo.html
I made this one last year: th-cam.com/video/Qk_lhtQps3M/w-d-xo.html
You probably only need a newer processor and motherboard
@@DexxterClarkMusic Thanks 👌🏼
I asked the audio interface company if it could work on an AMD processor. But they told they can't, so I'm going with Intel
Which Interface?
@@moloypratimdas focusrite
@@deptavasinha9445 r u 🤔serious I doubt
@@moloypratimdas i dont hold accountability to their response. That was what they informed me. if u think u got something different, go ahead and ask them out.
@@deptavasinha9445 didn't heard about this before so, u may have latency issue okay with which intel u r going?
How will ryzen 3200g be for music production?
If this is still interesting... I run a 3400g with cubase 11. It sucks the living hell. I run toontrack drums and literally everything else is done. Don't go for AMD with interested graphics at least. X600 /X700 and up
I have been selling music systems for many years, CPUs of Zaun models
2667 v4
2673 v3
2680 v4
2696 v4
They are excellent and efficient
Xeons are great but maybe a bit overkill, especially for the price.
i7, i9's have also better video codec support
Everyone thinks that single core is more important for processing in music making, but in reality, I didn't see this difference, even frequency is not more important than core and cache.
For example, the xeon 2680 v4, which is very cheap, works even better than the i9 9900k.
The only thing I did not understand is why Zeon CPUs are cheap but have high performance@@DexxterClarkMusic
Is a quad core processor good enough to handle fl studio
look at the minimum specs on the website of Image Line
How about 8th generation i5 6 Core, 3.0 GHz? Want to process up to 32 tracks of audio and midi
depends totally on what you wnat to do
As Dexxter says, it depends on what exactly you want to do.
To give you a ballpark, I estimate that you should be able to run a good eq and compressor on each track, have a couple of reverbs, and probably also eq and compression on the master, if you work at 44.1kHz or 48kHz sample rate.
every single plugin works on AMD ryzen 7 for me
thanks for the feedback.
Can you name the most popular plugins, so we have a bit of an idea what works?
@@DexxterClarkMusic that would be really helpful
Same here, I have a Ryzen7 1st gen @3.2Ghz 16Gb RAM, so far I haven't had any plugin issue.
Can run smoothly Serum, Omnisphere, Dune3, FabFilter FX's, Ozone9 and many others.
@@yosoyelsupremo thank u so much
Crazy how much you look like James McAvoy
he is my brother
You have great videos, thank you. I do need help with something though. I have a surface laptop 2 with 8gb RAM and an i7 processor. (And 256 gb storage with tons of headroom). I'm trying to run analog lab V in ableton live 11. Just opening that software puts my CPU up to around 30-50% and then playing a 2 instrument sound completely overloads it. Even just a few notes of midi. I can't even bounce it out to audio because I cannot even play without it overloading and clipping. I just don't understand, my laptop is okay, it's about a year old and I overpaid $1600 for it!! I barely use it for anything, and I've tried to optimize both the ram and cpu and this still happens. I just watched your other video which you discussed how large sample based instruments are, analog lab I believe is synthesized. is the problem that it's loading every synth on analog lab and I could disable that somehow? Maybe instead of opening the program I could somehow just choose the preset I want to use and then load that into ableton rather than the whole analog lab? Any info would really be fantastic, thank you very much!
I dont know the plugin, nor ableton extremely well.
You could try other plugins on the same midi-notes and see if it makes a difference (just to see if the plugin is too cpu-cycle heavy).
People keep using laptops and expect amazing results, but that is not what they are made for.
And on top of that the processors in Surface machines are generally not very powerful, even the i7.
But I have to admit, 2 plugins is not much.
Bouncing out should slow the music down to a speed that the cpu can cope with, so it could be something else (motherboard, usb driver, windows updates .... there are 100s of processes running on a computer)
@@DexxterClarkMusic thank you so much for the info 🙏
Is i5 7400 7th Gen 4 cores good ?
Si, por corto tiempo, deberias ir por algo mas nuevo.
Great video! I have an dell optiplex 9020 with Intel i7-4790S, 16ram, 225 ssd and 1tb hdd. Is that enough to make extensive electronic music?
basic stuff will work
Hello, I'd like to know how 1.6 GHz 4 core stands against 2.3 GHz dual core ? Both are intels. It's for a budget laptop. Would it be more or less the same thing or one is more preferable than another?
lookup some bench marks to make sure.
but both seem a little bit on the "skinny" side.
It will work for sure, but neither are powerhouses
@@DexxterClarkMusic Thanks for the quick answer!!. Yes i know, it's a bare minimum, but at the moment that's what i can afford, and really all i need is just 5 tracks, or maybe 10 at most in Cubase, not the proffessional musician here.. so i hope that will be enough for that with that little i5 , 8gb RAM and SSD disk to handle
I have a 8 Core Intel Xeon W 3.2Ghz in my iMac Pro and 2.6 6core i7 in my 16" MacBook Pro while my PC is an AMD Threadripper 3970x 32 core beast.. .Is that enough ?
depends a little bit on what you want to do, but probably
Dexxter Clark most of my work is orchestrating, transcribing, scoring and some occasional production work. It’s a bit overkill but when I’m not doing music I’m doing Photography.
@@MadmusicalHulk uprade the memory
Dexxter Clark ha ha I knew you’d say that next! My iMac Pro has 128gb, laptop has 32gb and Threadripper also has 128gb.
AMD doesn't detect UAD2 PCIe Solo and Duo
I Definitely want an intel, for my own various compatibility reasons. I’m deciding on i5-9600k (6 cores/ threads), or whether the upgrade to i7-9700k (8 c/t) is worth it. Any opinion? It’s a 150€ difference and I’m wondering whether the i5 might be plenty powerful
the answer is in the video
If you're making very technical tracks (ie: lots of effects, serums, etc) then for sure save up until you can get the i7-9700k.
I5 10400f 6 cores 12 threads !
You are a godsend lol
dig it!
among us sounds anyone?
I dont speak english, hablo español, some one can helo me? Only say me, what its better, amd ryzen or intel?
Intel for music production.
Intel es mejor
intel xeon 8168 is the best but costs a few thousand euros :(
then the price/performance ratio is out of balance
@@DexxterClarkMusic is z600 with dual x5670, 24gb ram and ssd ok? I noticed that Cubase doesn't take advantage of my xeons.I have a lynx Aurora16 with awesome drivers and yet the ASIO meter is maxed out, while processors show 16% of usage.I on the max buffer setting on my lynx AES16 card.Win7 64.
Nice
You sound very Dutch
hoe zou dat komen?
Hiding your likes and dislikes always makes your channel look bad. You should not dance around an answer you simply cannot provide. I’ll be avoiding your channel from here on.
Thank you for an excellent explanation of this! Longtime music producer but I never understood the mechanics and jargon behind what’s running my daw! Thanks again!
Glad you enjoyed it!