The developers of your DAW and plugins are going to use the power available to them. But will the older Intel-based systems run your software great or without issues? Probably not, though a lot of people are going to rationalize going with less even if it isn’t the right choice.Īpple silicon is the DAW standard. Maybe a less than 10 year old Intel-based system with enough RAM and SSD might be able to run Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Reason, Cubase, or the DAW of your choice. Choose what you’re comfortable with, but do it. MacBooks and iMacs can be had for reasonable costs too. A brand new M2 Mac mini can be had from Apple starting at $599.00. I would suggest at the barest minimum, an entry level Apple M1 (Air, Pro, Mini, iMac) if you are serious about your music.

Apple innovation has flown above and beyond Intel. I’ve been using Intel based PCs for decades, but it no longer makes any sense whatsoever. Now I'm on Ryzen 7 3700X and if the M1 Pro chip is going to be somewhere around this performance, honestly it's going to be enough for me.Apple M Series is the new DAW performance minimum! My MBP15 2015 is trash and FL Studio is barely working and cpu throttle killing me any time I start any project. So yeah, if you guys use it a lot, can you guys walk me through your own experience? What I can expect? (3rd party plugins performance, fan noise and how loud is it, throttle, how it runs projects full of 3rd party plugins and so on) I saw some FL Studio tests on YouTube, but most of them didn't quite cover the real-life scenarios of work.Īctually there is only one good video about M1 Pro performance tbh

However, there is not so much feedback about M1 Pro performance with 3rd party plugins. Personally, I would prefer Mac OS and M1 Pro chip. Already have the money and everything, just need to understand how it actually works. Hello everyone, can you guys please share your real work experience with M1 Pro MacBooks? I need a laptop for making music in Fl Studio and, I am stuck choosing between M1 Pro and any Windows ones.

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