We can’t promise to do every one of them as we are currently restricted by plugin and hardware compatibility issues, but we will do our best.
What test would you like us to do next? Please leave suggestions in the comments. There are many more tests to come, including as mentioned, our reference Power Test, which we would conduct to benchmark these machines with other computers. We shared the video with some trusted professionals before publishing and they were all as shocked by the results as we are. We think even the most hardened Apple hater would be impressed by the performance shown in this, admittedly unscientific, power test. This may be down to the new GPU power and memory sharing on the SoC using unified memory. We observed none of these usual indications. One of the indications that Pro Tools is struggling is that things like the counter, metering and timeline cursors start to stutter. There were no audio dropouts, crackles, or pops. Please watch the video to see what happened…ĭespite this being a very large session running on an unsupported OS and chip, it was rock solid even at the lowest buffer setting. Total tracks including busses and VIs: Over 700 Optimise Performance at Low Buffer Settings: Enabled. Ignore errors during playback/record: Disabled, we wanted to see Pro Tools stop working if it encounters any errors. The specification of the MacBook Pro is as follows Īpple M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine Instead, Avid recommends professionals record to an external high-performance drive. We recorded to the internal drive, which is not recommended by Avid. To record 16 new tracks we routed an existing track via an internal bus to capture the sound. We are recording and playing back the internal sound card and using Quicktime to capture the screen, which is why there is no audio on the video. Pro Tools also isn’t yet supported in macOS 12 Monterey, on either Intel or Apple Silicon powered Macs. Pro Tools isn’t yet supported to run natively on the new Apple Silicon SoC chips, which means this test has been undertaken with Pro Tools and all the plugins running Rosetta 2. Note, this is another unscientific test with a number of things we need to declare.
The session also uses numerous instances of Avid stock plugins including 14 instances of EQIII, 117 instances of instances of Channel Strip, 1 instance of Dverb and 1 instance of Dither. The session has over 700 tracks, with instances of the Xpand virtual instrument. Instead of just recording 16 tracks at a low buffer setting we decided to really tax the new MacBook Pro with a large session to see what would happen. “Can you please test multitrack (16 channels+ ideally) tracking at low buffer settings with typical plugins please?” The Test following on from our article MacBook Pro 2021 With M1 Max - Experts Give Their First Impressions, in the comments community member Ru Cook asked us Because the new Apple MacBook Pro ships with Monterey pre-installed, and cannot be rolled back, in the meantime we are responding to the questions we can answer. We can’t currently run the standard power test we normally use as some of the Avid plugins used in our standard Power Test are currently incompatible with macOS 12 Monterey. We are working as fast as we can to address your questions about the new Apple MacBook Pro powered by M1 Pro and M1 Max SoC.
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