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Upgrade from Early 2008 Macbook Pro to Mac Pro 2.1/3.1 for live mixing in a DAW
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<blockquote data-quote="htevents" data-source="post: 1783492" data-attributes="member: 397890"><p>Hello all,</p><p></p><p></p><p>Till now I always use a (digital) outboard mixer for mixing the band I work with, but I would like to use my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) as mixer. It is a software based recording/mixing platfrom, but mostly used for recording and mix recorded audio. Because I will use it as a realtime mixer, it relies on CPU power, not so much on disk speed and RAM.</p><p></p><p>At this moment, I have a Macbook pro 15 inch 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 duo processor and 4GB RAM. I run Presonus Studio One 3 Professional as my DAW and have an audio roundtrip latency of 16 milliseconds with buffersize at 128 samples and a sample rate of 48.000Hz. This is with 24 input channels, all containing at least compresion and EQ, some have a Gate on top of it. 3 FX channels with Reverb and Delay and a few mix bus channels. At this moment, it stresses my CPU at 60% with spikes over a 100%, so my Macbook Pro is a little too weak for handeling it.</p><p></p><p>How much of a difference will it make to buy a refurbished Mac Pro 2.1 or 3.1 with a minimum of 2x 2.8 GHz/3GHz Xeon quadcore processors with a minimum of 8GB RAM and use that machine for my goal. More RAM will not decrease the latency, CPU is all it needs, but ofcourse this project has a budget, that is why I was thinking of a Mac Pro 2.1 or 3.1 instead of the newest version. If my performance is only doubled, it will be enough.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Here are all the specs on a row:</p><p></p><p>Macbook Pro Early 2008 (current)</p><p>- Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Dual Core</p><p>- Memory: 4GB DDR2 667 MHz</p><p>- DAW: Studio One 3 Professional (roundtrip latency: 16ms)</p><p>- Audio interface: Dante Virtual Soundcard connected to a Presonus RM32AI (<4ms latency)</p><p></p><p>Mac Pro 2.1/3.1 (Upgrade option)</p><p>- Processor: 2x 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon Quad core</p><p>- Memory: 8GB DDR2 667 MHz (2.1) or 8GB DDR2 800 MHz (3.1)</p><p>- DAW: Studio One 3 Professional (roundtrip latency: unknown)</p><p>- Audio interface: Dante Virtual Soundcard connected to a Presonus RM32AI (<4ms latency)</p><p></p><p>Please give me your thoughts. I hope I gave you enough info to know what my situation is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="htevents, post: 1783492, member: 397890"] Hello all, Till now I always use a (digital) outboard mixer for mixing the band I work with, but I would like to use my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) as mixer. It is a software based recording/mixing platfrom, but mostly used for recording and mix recorded audio. Because I will use it as a realtime mixer, it relies on CPU power, not so much on disk speed and RAM. At this moment, I have a Macbook pro 15 inch 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 duo processor and 4GB RAM. I run Presonus Studio One 3 Professional as my DAW and have an audio roundtrip latency of 16 milliseconds with buffersize at 128 samples and a sample rate of 48.000Hz. This is with 24 input channels, all containing at least compresion and EQ, some have a Gate on top of it. 3 FX channels with Reverb and Delay and a few mix bus channels. At this moment, it stresses my CPU at 60% with spikes over a 100%, so my Macbook Pro is a little too weak for handeling it. How much of a difference will it make to buy a refurbished Mac Pro 2.1 or 3.1 with a minimum of 2x 2.8 GHz/3GHz Xeon quadcore processors with a minimum of 8GB RAM and use that machine for my goal. More RAM will not decrease the latency, CPU is all it needs, but ofcourse this project has a budget, that is why I was thinking of a Mac Pro 2.1 or 3.1 instead of the newest version. If my performance is only doubled, it will be enough. Here are all the specs on a row: Macbook Pro Early 2008 (current) - Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Dual Core - Memory: 4GB DDR2 667 MHz - DAW: Studio One 3 Professional (roundtrip latency: 16ms) - Audio interface: Dante Virtual Soundcard connected to a Presonus RM32AI (<4ms latency) Mac Pro 2.1/3.1 (Upgrade option) - Processor: 2x 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon Quad core - Memory: 8GB DDR2 667 MHz (2.1) or 8GB DDR2 800 MHz (3.1) - DAW: Studio One 3 Professional (roundtrip latency: unknown) - Audio interface: Dante Virtual Soundcard connected to a Presonus RM32AI (<4ms latency) Please give me your thoughts. I hope I gave you enough info to know what my situation is. [/QUOTE]
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