grawk Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 I bit. I bought the macbook pro m1 16gb/512 to be delivered before the end of the year. I'll primarily use it with logic pro and final cut pro...some of my plug ins may take a while to get ported tho. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbut Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 Oooh!!! Excited for you Dan. Native Instruments would be my major issue (I think Kontakt will only run in demo mode right now). Terrible customer service there! (unfortunately, most of my projects have an instance of Kontakt on 80% of the tracks). Just keep an eye on that Production Expert online list I linked. It should stay pretty current. Apples seems to have done their best to make the transition as easy as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted November 29, 2020 Report Share Posted November 29, 2020 Oh, I didn't even consider that there's a big possibility my fw ensemble won't work after this. Damn. I guess I keep an intel Mac around for logic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbut Posted November 29, 2020 Report Share Posted November 29, 2020 (edited) You should be able to do a "dongle to dongle" dongle train. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/1261576-tbolt-3-fw-really-no-docks-will-do.html#post13932221 I would wonder if the drivers/firmware are Big Sur compliant (contact Apogee or check their web site for the latest). I've got a firewire 400 Metric Halo that I use for location work. I have a 2012 MBP that I use with an external FW800 drive with a usb dock built in. That uses the only FW800 port. So the Metric Halo is connected to the Thunderbolt 1>Firewire800>Firewire400 (2 dongles). The driver isn't Catalina compliant so I'll need to do a board upgrade when I buy a new laptop. If you can, use the real Apple dongles. They are pretty solid. Edited November 30, 2020 by ironbut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherwood Posted November 30, 2020 Report Share Posted November 30, 2020 If you can, use the real Apple dongles. They are pretty solid.Weirdly, to get TB2 running to my Presonus Quantum the Apple TB3 to TB2 adapter was a non-starter. The dongle cognoscenti informed me StarTec has the preferred solution, and it works a treat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbut Posted November 30, 2020 Report Share Posted November 30, 2020 I stand corrected! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted November 30, 2020 Report Share Posted November 30, 2020 i got the apple one. if it doesn’t work i’ll swap to the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbut Posted November 30, 2020 Report Share Posted November 30, 2020 I got the Apple adapter (after a cheap one crapped out) to attach my Blackmagic Multidock TB2 with my 2019 iMac. It works fine with the Multidock but YMWV. If you have issues installing the Apogee software, try resetting CoreAudio in Terminal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 My oldest son took a job as a rep and is traveling. He needs a new laptop and is looking at the 13" MBP M1. Does he really need 16Gb RAM? He was looking at an 8Gb/512G SSD model. Also, would a new Air be just as good for him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 If it was me I would go for the Air with the increased RAM. I actually have come to dislike the touch bar on my Pro but I do like Touch ID (which the new M1 Air has). If I replace my 13” Pro, it will be with the M1 Air not the M1 Pro. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbut Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 The M1 Macs are too new and plenty of software has yet to made compatible with Big Sur, so we can only make educated guesses where 8G of ram might be a bottleneck. For now, I'd advise early adopters to max ram. It could make a huge difference in resale value if it turns out 8G is a real issue. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 Do we know we apps he’ll be running? In case it helps at all, here’s a recent M1 Air review driving photography. https://fcracer.com/macbook-air-m1-late-2020-review-for-travel-photography/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 I just cancelled my m1 MacBook Pro order because after upgrading my desktop to an i9-9900k with 32gb, it can handle 171 tracks on the logic benchmark, so I can wait a while longer before upgrading my laptop. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironbut Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 Makes good sense to me Dan. I have little doubt that the next gen of "pro" level Macs will make my i9 iMac look weak, but at this point, I don't need +200 tracks. IMHO Content is King and 99.9% of folks could care less what gear was used to create something. My main concern is eliminating distractions and not having to stop to work out some bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMoney Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 Well this certainly looks interesting! I love the smaller AirPods for calls and podcast listening so I’m real curious how the tech they’ve done in that product translates to a full size over ear headphone. https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 20 hours battery life... that is a step up from the Airpods Pro (5 hours). I guess this is where the Beats acquisition starts to show. Pricey as usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted December 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 Lightning connector. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 I'm curious about how they sound – will they compare well against Sony, Bose, and Sennheiser, for example (at nearly double the price)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 29 minutes ago, Hopstretch said: Lightning connector. Agreed! Why the fuck did they not use a USB-C connector. Sounds like there is a mole working at Apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 Where is Tyll when we need him. Who's going to take one for the team, or are you going to wait for the pro max? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 40 minutes ago, HiWire said: I'm curious about how they sound – will they compare well against Sony, Bose, and Sennheiser, for example (at nearly double the price)? They'll sound 75% of the new Orpheus at 1% of the cost. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMoney Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 (edited) 48 minutes ago, Grahame said: Where is Tyll when we need him. Who's going to take one for the team, or are you going to wait for the pro max? To Tyll's credit, he predicted that we'd see the tech come much more strongly into the headphone space in the future when he was on his way out from InnerFidelity. Apple doesn't seem to be doing personal HRTF in the sense that Tyll predicted, but they do seem to be doing some kind of equalization based on sound interactions from inside the ear cups to fix sonic deficiencies and enhance noise cancellation. Makes sense. If you can't get there with electrical and acoustic engineering then use EQ to make up a lot of the difference. I think I might take the plunge. Edited December 8, 2020 by TMoney 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 I'm running Big Sur on a separate drive on my desktop, and my firewire apogee ensemble is working (via firewire, not via tb3, haven't tested that yet). Pianoteq 6.7 and 7 both work inside the latest logic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherwood Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 I think I might take the plunge.Much appreciated. I like my AirPods Pro a great deal, but largely because they’re small enough to just always have on my person. I sometimes go three days without putting on shoes lately, so my need for “mobile” headphones is not high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted December 11, 2020 Report Share Posted December 11, 2020 Computing on a 1990 Apple Quadra 700: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/it-still-runs-on-your-imagination-passing-2020-time-with-a-macintosh-quadra-700/ ... and I thought I was hoarding old technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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