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for the artist and the creative professional a good computer is an

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essential foundational tool and while we're all excited to see how Apple's new

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Mac Studio will fit the bill I wanted to give a last harra of a look at the new

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Macbook Pro now in the world of tech YouTube we've done our benchmarks and

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tried out what's new to tell you how it is and the new Macbook has impressed

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just about all of us but what about the types of people who they are made for

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what is the MacBook Pro like in the real world the results might surprise you

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they surprised

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me but

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you this is Andrew Mueller he's a

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musician friend of mine who goes by the name Viola Bloom viola VI Bloom VI

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Bloom he's been growing in music production for a number of years now

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accumulating a large array of cool synths and effect mobs that plug into

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his 2015 MacBook Pro glowing logo and

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all I mean I can pull up a song

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file software-wise music producers are spoiled for Choice with their digital

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audio workstation software Andrew's Choice when writing and producing Tunes

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is reason the reason I like reason is that you can build like very complicated

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instruments and it's really cool it's based on more of an analog look like

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even when you go into it you see these little rack units that you would

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normally see if you went into like a million dooll studio and you can turn

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them around and see the wiring and you can rewire them you could do all this

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stuff using something like Ableton is like more appropriate but I hate using

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Ableton like to write music with yeah cuz this is a song I wrote in the summer

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I'm just starting to load it now but then once you go to play it it's like

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it's going to stutter a ton for us a slow computer is a bit of a nuisance but

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for Andrew it can really cramp his creative flow for audio buffer size is

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like very important so you can see like we have a certain amount of samples here

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and it tells us what our latency is so like this song for example will not play

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unless I have this set to 2,000

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samples so this is like cuz this is what you have to do is you have to keep

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jumping up your buffer size every time your project gets bigger and now you can

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touch the project less because you're like oh well I want to record some instruments it starts to create a mess

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so it's like you okay well I'm just going to increase the buffer

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size it's like a very long

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delay it's literally impossible cuz you like your brain gets confused cuz you

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hear it a second later it's just like you feel like an

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idiot so can we make Andrew's life a

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little better this new Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro processor is about four times

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faster than his fourth gen Intel Core i7 laptop and so I want to give it to him

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to see if such an upgrade actually makes any

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difference

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stop on the other side what about one of our video editors like Hoffman whom you

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might recognize he's an editor here at LMG who occasionally takes photos for

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Merch on LTT Store.com dress like me with their plaid flannel in the edit Den

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he uses a massive powerful desktop PC Threadripper 390 in all it's just so

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fast I don't really have to care about his workstation is very powerful and

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very big so I want to see how much an M1 Max powered MacBook Pro with 24 cores

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Compares what the heck are you doing well we're replacing your desktop heavy

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and hot with the new Macbook Pro we're going to see if it's just as fast is it

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going to be faster than mine well you're going to tell me you know this is what

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you want not going to say

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anything the goal with this video is to get an idea of what it would be like

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were someone to add one of these MacBook Pros into their workflow so we're going

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to need a bit of time at least over a week to let them get their hands dirty

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below many of the new features introduced in the MacBook Pro are

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extremely handy especially in Hoffman's case that SD card reader almost worth

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the price of Entry alone except for the fact that you also get that fabulous xdr

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display the screen it's just so nice I I

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can trust the screen I actually edit photos on the screen all the time for

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LTD store the keyboard is just so nice it's so tactile it's exactly what I

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wanted at his desk Hoffman edits high quality High bit rate Mac Address

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footage now we do have a server to edit footage of of however it and Max have a

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bit of a Fickle relationship so Hoffman's editing locally so how does

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the MacBook compare to the Threadripper there are times when the trans coat is

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just a little bit slower for example it would be like 7 minutes to transcat

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something on the thre rer versus a 12 minutes on let's say MacBook Pro but I

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just look at it and you know try to listen to the fan and I rarely hear the

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fans sometimes I mean it is a bit of a big difference 12 minutes to 7 minutes

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it's pretty rough I would say but the time difference is like a couple minutes

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it's not exactly close but it's not

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exactly far it just it surprises me

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every time is that I can carry such a powerful computer with me in in such

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like a small form factor and I look at my threat Ripper machine it's like big

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and

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bulky so back to Andrew the issue for

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him was managing the buffer in reason to hear his multi-layered song he needed a

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big buffer which meant he can't play along with it so is the new Mac any

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better like my old computer once a song got bigger I would have to be up to like

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2,000 samples which is like it's very hard to record

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so that's not too bad for only 512 samples like I was expecting it to like

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like I was at 2,000 so I'm gonna go up more samples your sample rate oh it's so

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it actually just got worse when I changed it to a thousand samples for some reason what yeah maybe maybe that's

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what I need to experiment with is lower like my D my DSP is at like Max

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that's very weird right it's getting worse and worse and worse I think it'll

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get better now at 4,000 and like the new Macbook I opened up a song and like IM

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immediately it wouldn't play until I had it at 4,000

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samples so how did you feel in the performance was not as good oh man that

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was so disappointing it felt awful it was like

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oh did I make a huge mistake here like it made me feel like I was an early

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adopter it shows that the problem here is the software in the digital audio

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workstation space reason is known for being a little behind their latest

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update 12 now supports HD graphics for retina screens Andrew however uses

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version 11 and while it should run on M1 through Rosetta something is clearly

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getting Lost in Translation and Native M1 support looks a long way off despite

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the M1 being a part of the system

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requirements so uh are you going to buy a Macbook I'm yeah I bought a Macbook

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and it just shipped last night and it just shipped last night and I got a UPS

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sticker on my door and I went and picked it up just before you uh this interview

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you still had got one anyway I still I still got it anyways yeah oh you got a

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space gray one it's space gray what can I say for me I was motivated just

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because my computer was getting slow and and while I'm trying to work on these

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projects and I got 2,000 samples on my buffer size and then I upgraded it

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doesn't even solve that problem so now I'm actually in a funny position where

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I'm like oh maybe I would move to Ableton because I know it's going to

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perform way better and that might be a mistake but I'm motivated to make that

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mistake because I have this problem

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now these powerful Apple silicon Maxs

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have brought loads of enthusiasm to the platform especially from creative

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professionals like Hoffman and Andrew both of whom really fell for the

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features design and future of the new architecture it's like four grand enough

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even to put their money where their mouth is

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but after the hardware transition comes the hard part which is the software

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transition there are loads of great chip features like the neural engine the

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media engine and countless GPU cores for developers to take advantage of but it's

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going to require lots of work to do so larger developers like the ones who make

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Ableton will get there faster in fact we

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saw them in the Apple Studio announcement but it's harder for smaller

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developers like the one who makes reason and at a time when Apple's developer

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relationships are dropping towards all-time lows this might be for users

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the biggest difficulty of this transition would I get one here's the

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deal I'm saying that I love it because I didn't pay for it if you don't need to upgrade then

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just wait a bit when you look at machine that's so small and you tell yourself

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that it's almost $4,000 you kind of start to think is it

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justifiable because if I can't use it in a professional environment then where am

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I going to use it

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thanks for testing out this Mac Address I'll admit this wasn't quite the

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conclusion I was expecting when I set out to make this video but if you think

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the MacBook Pro will make your Computing faster then give this a like and if

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you're curious about the Mac Studio then subscribe now in the comments I'm

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curious about what apps you use that aren't quite Apple silicon native yet

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like Microsoft teams