In a practical sense this is true in this example. So we have sort of 52 times the "performance". I could now load 13 instances of the same preset, but now with 4 voices each, and No crackles!! Totally playable indeed!!
#Mac mini for music production 2019 slow full#
Meaning: Unusable for tight playing, and full of disturbing digital garbage. Even when reducing voicing down all the way to Mono!!! - would still make audio "crackle" (like it normally sounds when the buffer size is too low). Using the MM´s inbuilt gpu, I could only load ONE instance of Serum (Preset: PD ArticWind, NB! Voicings reduced from 16 to 4). Very playable indeed!! (when it works without glitches) Live´s Reported overall latency (44.1) 3,45ms. The cheapest one, since I'm not a gamer and reckon´Live doesn't need so much power.Ĭonnected with a 2 metre Belkin TB3 cable, also from Applestore: Flawless plug and play with Mojave 10.14.6! Still really needing/wanting the extra horsepower from the 3,2 GHz cpu (so I could maybe use a couple of more instances of Flux Spat v3 verbs for surround and the like) I read up on, AND ordered (from Applestore), the Sonnet Breakaway Puck Radeon rx 560. Shit, I think even my old MBP 13-inch 2011 did a hell of a lot better!! Using the application QuickRes to downscale to nonHiDPI resolution 1980x1080 made things better, but still seriously underperforming. I need this low latency being a percussionist/drummer playing through diverse transformative VST´s running in Live. So all this to one MacMini TB3 (usb-c) port.Ĭonnected via HDMI to a LG 27inch 4k external screen (Apple claims support for 3 of these, I think) Ableton 10.1 was unable to do almost anything with a buffer size of 64 (44.1 kHz). No problem at all with the traffic, since the Quantum under stress just uses 2% of the available bandwidth of TB2. The second TB2 port on the Quantum is connected to an old Belkin TB(1) Expressdock - which again has diverse inputs from disks, midi over usb, ilok as well as a DSI Pro2 (NRPN mode via Soundtower plugin) and a Push2. (File vault is off, and security settings is on low and allows booting from external media)Īpple TB3 to TB2 adapter, to Presonus Quantum.
So I installed every single thing from scratch, while ensuring everything was 64-bit.
Not possible, neither via Time Machine nor external (usb or thunderbolt) boot disk - OR anything else. A little too much for extremely dynamic recordings or high gain condensers nearby, and I needed a clone of this exact system. My existing setup works flawlessly on a MBP 15 running El Capitan (mid 2014, i7 2,5 Ghz, using the discrete buildt in GPU - EXCEPT for the cooling fans making quite some noise. After much googling and countless tries still It proved impossible to downgrade Osx to El Capitan (or anything else, for that matter), so I was stuck with Mojave.
This buy was meant as a sort of backup or redundant? machine for live shows.
#Mac mini for music production 2019 slow mac#
Just thought I would share this, after almost ditching this 2018 Mac mini - almost tearing my hair out in frustration.
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