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Macs are so, so, so good for audio, nothing else comes close. Super low-latency out of the box, no drivers to install for either interfaces or MIDI controllers,
by PascLeRasc 7y ago
Macs are so, so, so good for audio, nothing else comes close. Super low-latency out of the box, no drivers to install for either interfaces or MIDI controllers, and compatibility with Firewire and Thunderbolt interfaces on every machine built in the last 10 years. CoreAudio is incredibly stable and performant thanks to a double-buffer queue [1]. Logic Pro is an incredible feature-complete DAW for $200 that competes with Digital Performer ($500), Ableton ($750) and Pro Tools ($600).
[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/slides/09-audio.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/slides/09-audio.pdf
- village-idiot 7y agoNot if you use the regular audio channels. Both my MacBook Pro and Mac mini suffer really bad audio stutter because of the T2 chip.
- jcelerier 7y agoAs someone who develops a DAW, that's really not my experience. With the very same soundcard (so far RME, MOTU, Apogee) on the very same hardware, I get consistently lower latencies on Windows with ASIO than CoreAudio.
- timc3 7y agoThat’s not really true because Windows does come close, and I say that as someone whose every day DAW is running on MacOS. I also have Windows on other machines to compare it to. Out of the box a Mac is fine as is but a well configured well spec’d Windows box is really good once paired with a decent interface.