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Macbook Neo and Logic
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MajorFubar
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Personally I'm never able to translate these silly stress tests into results I can relate to with my own projects. But I do know we've reached a stage where the minimum spec of Macs is so good that (in 99% of cases) if Logic is throwing tantrums then it's a 'you' issue. For example Logic might throw a tantrum because you (any person) have got 50 tracks with a dozen resource-intensive plugins on each track that do the same thing, when there was an option to send the 50 tracks to one bus-channel with all the plugins on it. Logic throwing a tantrum under those loads doesn't make either Logic or the computer bad. It makes the project structure bad, and that amateurish lack of discipline couldn't be carried over into a studio with real physical hardware.
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Luap
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“Who would have thought we'd be having full Ableton running on an iPhone chip? That's kind of crazy”: The first reviews of the MacBook Neo are in, and it looks like good news for budget-conscious music producers
Both Ableton Live and Logic Pro run just fine, it would seem
This article has some good useful info 👍
These stress tests only show the limits but in reality you can do much more than that.
I found a YT video with a Logic stress test... MBN - 30 channels, base MBA M5 - 120 channels, and that's a big difference.
Sending each track to one bus channel is only good if you use the same setting, but if for example you need a different setting for the same reverb (or another plugin) you have no choice but to open it directly on each channel.
I found a YT video with a Logic stress test... MBN - 30 channels, base MBA M5 - 120 channels, and that's a big difference.
Sending each track to one bus channel is only good if you use the same setting, but if for example you need a different setting for the same reverb (or another plugin) you have no choice but to open it directly on each channel.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Looks like the minimum requirements for Logic is 8GB, so it will work, but I suspect you will be limited in what you can do.
Big fan of using the right tool for the job, and if you're a logic user who's more of a light user, will be better served with a computer with higher specs.
Big fan of using the right tool for the job, and if you're a logic user who's more of a light user, will be better served with a computer with higher specs.
8GB will be sufficient for light work without many plugins and instruments that eating RAM.
And it's a shame, because MBN could have been a great little mobile device if they'd come up with a build option with a bit more memory.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Absolutely not... in the same way that MBA doesn't eat MBP sales. It will only give more options to choose from for different needs in different price range.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Of course it will.
A cheaper laptop that does nearly everything the MBA does with more memory? It most definitely would cannibalize MBA sales.
Also MBA can do almost everything the MBP can do, but it doesn't cannibalize their sales.
More memory is only one aspect of the whole picture... to do the same job both need the same CPU and also use the same SSD speed.