Diva/Repro instances under Mac M1

[tehlord]

Hello all

Just looking for peoples experiences of real world instance numbers for Diva and Repro (more the latter) running M1 Macs.

I need to buy an M1 Mac in the short term as I can't wait until M2 arrives, but as long as it can handle 5-6 instances of Repro at medium/high settings with a bit of polyphony, I should be good.

Really just for sound design work away from the studio where I'm running a few instances of heavy use plugins at the same time.

[Ploki]

just ran 14 instances, 4 voices each, HQ mode, buffer 64, no overloads

Diva is much better than on an i7 6-core Mini - i tested that a while ago

[tehlord]

just ran 14 instances, 4 voices each, HQ mode, buffer 64, no overloads

Diva is much better than on an i7 6-core Mini - i tested that a while ago

Fantastic news.

Thanks for the insight. I shall purchase the M1 immediately!

[Urs]

We've scheduled another video ad for next week or so, showing 25 Divas handling a multi-voice patch each.

If I'm not mistaken, our benchmarks show 140+ or so voices of Diva running natively on M1 with real world settings ("Great" quality mode IIRC).

[pdxindy]

Amazing ^^

The minute the new 16" MBP with M1 (M1X or whatever) is announced, I'll be hitting the buy button. Same if they announce a new Mac Mini with more ports and the next processor.

[masterhiggins]

How do the benchmarks compare to a similarly-priced Ryzen system?

[tehlord]

We've scheduled another video ad for next week or so, showing 25 Divas handling a multi-voice patch each.

If I'm not mistaken, our benchmarks show 140+ or so voices of Diva running natively on M1 with real world settings ("Great" quality mode IIRC).

Awesome. It's quite incredible how much performance the M1's provide for such a relatively 'cheap' Apple machine!

[david.beholder]

We've scheduled another video ad for next week or so, showing 25 Divas handling a multi-voice patch each.

If I'm not mistaken, our benchmarks show 140+ or so voices of Diva running natively on M1 with real world settings ("Great" quality mode IIRC).

Do you have comparison benchmarks with latest MBP i7 or i9?

[tehlord]

Timely video by 'The Batt'

[Ploki]

We've scheduled another video ad for next week or so, showing 25 Divas handling a multi-voice patch each.

If I'm not mistaken, our benchmarks show 140+ or so voices of Diva running natively on M1 with real world settings ("Great" quality mode IIRC).

Do you have comparison benchmarks with latest MBP i7 or i9?

Mini i7 8700B, so 6-core.
Native is the beta, not the latest version.
M1 is rosetta2, M1 Native is ARM.

[GruvSyco]

Curious... Does the host have to be running native too to see the M1 benefits?

[dakkra]

Curious... Does the host have to be running native too to see the M1 benefits?

Yes, to use M1 architecture you must use M1 binary portion of both host and plugin. I don't know of any host that can bridge multi-architecture (x86 <-> ARM) right now.

[Ploki]

Curious... Does the host have to be running native too to see the M1 benefits?

No, because m1 is such a good chip it runs a lot of things better than much more powerful intels even under rosetta. When native you get a 15-40% speed boost tho.

In a more technical sense, yes.
X86 hosts run x86 plugins.

[Ploki]

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[smoothny]

Curious... Does the host have to be running native too to see the M1 benefits?

Yes, to use M1 architecture you must use M1 binary portion of both host and plugin. I don't know of any host that can bridge multi-architecture (x86 <-> ARM) right now.

Bitwig can run x86 and arm plugins side by side due to its plugin sandboxing!