
Perhaps that's why its performance is similar to the others when "Live Performance Mode" is enabled. I would bet that DP's "Next Gen Pre Gen" is closer to freezing tracks than Logic's "dual buffer" thing.
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Side note, Logic being the only DAW that turns off "Efficiency Core" support, you can see the percentage gain with them on being around 25% per core, so basically these earlier 8 core M1's are essentially 5 core machines, with the new 10 core Max and Pro being 8.5 core machines, which all fits into the x1.7 gain the new chips give.Īnyway, bragging rights for MOTU right now. plays very nicely with Apples new M1 chips.

I have no idea how DP11 is beating Logic and Reaper with track count, Reaper having it's super slim code, and Logic having "home field advantage" with the new chips, but somehow MOTU's NextGen PreGen™ as they somewhat cheekily call their audio buffering on unarmed tracks etc. It's crazy how similar they all are when that's the case, and how much more CPU efficient DP11 is than all of them, with roughly twice as many tracks. whereas DP11 only drops to that level when put into it's version of Bitwig and Lives smoother real time operation with "Live Performance Mode". Reaper usually has a one or two plug in advantage over DP11, not right now. Pretty crazy, I don't know what's going on with Logic and Reaper here? Normally Logic, Reaper and DP on Intel anyway are in the ballpark of each other with beating Live and Bitwig, which fair enough do not do any sort of buffering of unarmed tracks, but in this case Logic looks no better than the "uninterrupted audio engine" DAWs. Reaper 6.40 Arm64 rev 021leaf- 24 instances before audio crackling. 20 with DP11's "Live Performance Mode" turned on. 16 with only the Performance Cores turned on in Logics Preferences.īitwig 4.07- 21 instances before audio starts crackling etc.Ībleton Live 11.1b6 2021 10-29- 20 instances before audio cracklesĭP11.02 - 43 instances before overload window pops up. Logic 10.7- 21 instances before audio engine System Overload warning. M1 MacBook Air 16GB, 1 TB SSD, Big Sur 11.6.

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Quick breakdown, stress test for software instrument use in the M1 MacBook Air using Diva initial patch, simple 120bpm 8th note 4 bar run followed by a two bar pause and three note chord, 6 bars in total. The DAWs I own that have native M1 versions with the native M1 version of Diva in AU format. OK all of this is subject to change, especially the results I'm getting for Logic and Reaper.
