8:52 This is the kind of thing that scares me. Having the plugin settings in your project completely lost. Thats not a small loss. Hopefully, thats very rare and wont happen as long as you stay with Apple chips and not try to migrate to a different architecture.
I know right?! I've not had any issues besides that so hopefully it was user error or just a fluke. All in all though, worth the upgrade. I've tried making music and editing videos on my 2020 mac desktop and it's so much slower hahaha
@ thanks for responding. I’m particularly interested in this subject because this is exactly what I’m going to run into when I finally get a Mac mini. I’ve been a PC user and have been using reason studios as my daw, but when I move to the apple chip, I’m wondering if I’m going to run into these issues, that would be a significant bummer if I run into this problem with all my old project files. Anyway, have a good day.
Great video, very informative! How are you finding it a year later? I'm looking into getting a similar spec M2 MacBook Pro (possibly the Max but will see my budget limitations). How have you found it for screen recording (your DAW), and live streaming (Streamyard, etc.)? That's probably the area my 2015 Intel MBP struggles the most and can't do it! Thanks
It's fantastic for everything I need still! A few times this year I edited 2 cam jam videos (minimal editing required) on my old intel desktop and the difference was astounding in terms of how much faster the m2 can do basically everything haha I stream on streamlabs and streamyard and the only issue I've had was a buffer difference between logic and streamlabs. After about 30 min of streaming, the music audio would get real digitally clipped. Setting Logic buffer to 256 or 512 seems to solve it though.
Hi, what quality setting was DIVA in when you managed 54 instances? Did you try it at 32 buffer setting? I'm wondering whether to get the M2 Pro but the only mode available has 1TB and 16GB ram. 1TB isn't bad but I would have preferred 2TB and 32GB ram although I might not need that much ram. Is yours the 10 core rather than 12 core? Thanks
I use 32 buffer when I'm making music and it works really well. I had streamlabs on and was recording audio and screen when filming so I used a higher buffer to allow for all the extra needs of sl. This mac is 1tb and as I talked about in the video it works perfectly fine for music making (but the 4k videos I film for here start becoming a problem quick, but an external SSD solves that problem). I have the 12 core. With regard to the mac your looking at, 16gb ram is not a lot if you're work is ram intensive. It really depends on what your use case is though, as there are ways to mitigate ram use depending on your workflow
Depends on your needs, if you’re doing dawless production then it should work well for some post fx and recording. If you’re planning to work in a daw, 8gb ram will be pretty limiting when running demanding plugins. 256 gb hard drive will definitely be an issue for sample libraries, plugins and audio tracks/projects. It’s totally doable though as you could get a 1tb ssd external for probably $100-$150.
Is that a M2 pro chip right? I thought it was just M2. Actually I’m using Logic Pro in a professional music studio and I was wondering if I can buy a 13 inch M2 32 gb 8 core. Most of the times we’re using about 20 or 30 tracks. We have a very nice computer but I want to buy a new one for me. Is that MacBook enough?
yeah, its a pro chip on a 2023 macbook pro. Regarding your question, it's really variable depending on what type of tracks you're using: audio or midi, lots of fx or is it just mic'd audio? Macbooks are great depending on the specs, but as I talked about at 5:30, it's worth figuring out your needs and getting the specs that fit it.
8:52 This is the kind of thing that scares me. Having the plugin settings in your project completely lost. Thats not a small loss. Hopefully, thats very rare and wont happen as long as you stay with Apple chips and not try to migrate to a different architecture.
I know right?! I've not had any issues besides that so hopefully it was user error or just a fluke. All in all though, worth the upgrade. I've tried making music and editing videos on my 2020 mac desktop and it's so much slower hahaha
@ thanks for responding. I’m particularly interested in this subject because this is exactly what I’m going to run into when I finally get a Mac mini. I’ve been a PC user and have been using reason studios as my daw, but when I move to the apple chip, I’m wondering if I’m going to run into these issues, that would be a significant bummer if I run into this problem with all my old project files. Anyway, have a good day.
Great video, very informative! How are you finding it a year later? I'm looking into getting a similar spec M2 MacBook Pro (possibly the Max but will see my budget limitations). How have you found it for screen recording (your DAW), and live streaming (Streamyard, etc.)? That's probably the area my 2015 Intel MBP struggles the most and can't do it! Thanks
It's fantastic for everything I need still! A few times this year I edited 2 cam jam videos (minimal editing required) on my old intel desktop and the difference was astounding in terms of how much faster the m2 can do basically everything haha
I stream on streamlabs and streamyard and the only issue I've had was a buffer difference between logic and streamlabs. After about 30 min of streaming, the music audio would get real digitally clipped. Setting Logic buffer to 256 or 512 seems to solve it though.
Very cool; thank you!
What sort of bit depth and sample rate were you working at when doing these tests?!
Cheers! This is from a while ago, but I always set Logic to 48khz and 24 bit, so should be that :)
@sunwarper thanks for the update 👍
Thanks for the great review! Which M2 Pro did you use? 10 or 12 core?
Cheers 🍻 I got the 10 core
Hi, what quality setting was DIVA in when you managed 54 instances? Did you try it at 32 buffer setting? I'm wondering whether to get the M2 Pro but the only mode available has 1TB and 16GB ram. 1TB isn't bad but I would have preferred 2TB and 32GB ram although I might not need that much ram. Is yours the 10 core rather than 12 core? Thanks
I use 32 buffer when I'm making music and it works really well. I had streamlabs on and was recording audio and screen when filming so I used a higher buffer to allow for all the extra needs of sl. This mac is 1tb and as I talked about in the video it works perfectly fine for music making (but the 4k videos I film for here start becoming a problem quick, but an external SSD solves that problem). I have the 12 core.
With regard to the mac your looking at, 16gb ram is not a lot if you're work is ram intensive. It really depends on what your use case is though, as there are ways to mitigate ram use depending on your workflow
Is 2022 mbp m2 good for music production? 8gb , 256ssd
Depends on your needs, if you’re doing dawless production then it should work well for some post fx and recording. If you’re planning to work in a daw, 8gb ram will be pretty limiting when running demanding plugins. 256 gb hard drive will definitely be an issue for sample libraries, plugins and audio tracks/projects. It’s totally doable though as you could get a 1tb ssd external for probably $100-$150.
Is that a M2 pro chip right? I thought it was just M2. Actually I’m using Logic Pro in a professional music studio and I was wondering if I can buy a 13 inch M2 32 gb 8 core. Most of the times we’re using about 20 or 30 tracks. We have a very nice computer but I want to buy a new one for me. Is that MacBook enough?
yeah, its a pro chip on a 2023 macbook pro.
Regarding your question, it's really variable depending on what type of tracks you're using: audio or midi, lots of fx or is it just mic'd audio?
Macbooks are great depending on the specs, but as I talked about at 5:30, it's worth figuring out your needs and getting the specs that fit it.
congrats on becoming a father bro
Thanks so much :)