Hi everybody,
I'm in the market for a new Macbook and since Sumu is among the most cpu-intensive plugins I want to use, I'm curious whether a base-model m4-chip will do to run slightly higher numbers of voices/instances.
I'm currently on a mid-2015 macbook pro, and most patches run fine with 3 voices in low latency. 4 voices introduces indiscriminately clicks & pops. The recent update to m4-chips make a Macbook Air already easily 4-5 times faster then my current machine, but I'd like to make a durable choice. So, bottom line: would you rather go for a m4pro (12-core, with a fan) or a macbook air (10-core, fanless)... I'm working with Reaper, who takes efficient use of all p- & e-cores anyway.
Insights greatly appreciated!
The whole Apple Silicon architecture was such a big step up that I continue to recommend any Apple Silicon machine from the M1 forward.
I just pulled up Sumu on my M1 Macbook Air and four voices run at 40–50% CPU. An M4 should be roughly twice as fast. Personally I would choose the M4 Air, I think they are a greal deal and the fanless aspect makes them excellent for audio work.
Also, Sumu will only get easier on the CPU as time goes by and I optimize it more.
Hi Randy, thanks for your reply; can you share your audio-settings & latency that gave that cpu-result? I usually work on 92/24 with 512 latency (I'm a piano-roll writer, don't really use realtime recording)...
Thanks anyway for the advice and I just want to express my enormous gratitude for your wonderful synths.. they are such a joy to make music with! :-)
This was 48kHz, 25 sample buffers, in "Juce AudioPluginHost" which I use a lot for testing. Results will be vary a lot between different DAWs, so take it only as a very rough guide.
Thanks so much for the info!
Aaargh, you probably guessed but I meant to type 256 not 25.