Dear Mac/Ableton, I am Disappoint

[dieterlaser]

Dunno, maybe I was a bit naive

But I thought buying a M5 Pro with 64GB RAM would make everything infinitely better

Yeah, I can run all the heavy hitters like Acustica Plugins for example. But it's easier to make things go crackle than I thought. Meh

Maybe, I'm overseeing a bottleneck here. Please let me know, lol

Maybe it's Ableton?

[ksandvik]

Buffer sizes? Check those to start with, my M4 24Gb works with no hiccups with larger projects.

[dieterlaser]

yeah, I feel dumb. just learned about parallel processing in ableton, which is logical for sure.

this Mac is very new and I bought a bunch of plugins that just came out, so I was just throwing heavy hitters in a row on the master to test.

works much better, when I just put one heavy hitter per each dedicated track. I can do much more, then

its the first time working with more sophisticated plugins for me, so im still learning here

[dieterlaser]

But even with that knowledge, I expected more. Have to test some more, though. I thought I don't have to look at bottlenecks and workarounds at all with that setup.

I Used a MacBook Pro 2013 for music, before I got the M5

[Gamma-UT]

How is anyone supposed to know? You've provided almost no clues as to and what you expected vs the old Mac and what you're actually trying to run and how other than a mention of some Acustica.

Unless you just want to have a whinge. In which case, knock y'self out.

[CinningBao]

First thing to look at would be buffer size, as others have said.

If you're playing things in live (as in down a mic or MIDI keyboard) you'd want that to be fairly low (32 to 256 max), but if you're just clicking in the piano roll and dropping samples in you can increase it to give your machine more time to 'think' about your sophisticated plugins you can bring it up to 512/1024.

[dieterlaser]

my buffer size is 512 samples, 48K sample rate

but yeah, its not only the hardware that gets more sophisticated, the plugins also get more demanding

with my older MacBook Pro 2013 that I worked with before, I never did more than 2 channels of plugins

[dieterlaser]

Well, I could also say it differently:

You would be surprised what you could still do with a MacBook Pro 2013

I'll keep that thing for recording duties