Hi everyone!
I am planning to buy a mac mini M4 as a backup machine …right now I have a Macbook air M4 with 32Gb ram and the most complex rackspace is showing 42% CPU usage… will 24Gb of ram enough or should I go for 32Gb of ram…Thank you!
What is the RAM usage on your main gigging computer?
Do you want to use that backup in the long run?
Also note that you can’t upgrade RAM on your Mac.
I am new to mac..where can I check the ram usage?
Yes
I know.
10.5Gb for GP
and almost 24Gb for the laptop
Ok, so you can get away with 24 GB of RAM.
Honestly, if you can afford it, go for 32Gb — don’t forget about growth in the future - more plugins in a rackspace, more samples, etc
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Did you compare price difference for 24 vs 32 model?
One of the disadvantages of Apple products is that they charge a premium for RAM.
And for SSD
Yes, it is around 250 euro
Being a windows user all my life, this shift till now(since may this year) is working extraordinarly and hope it will remain like this…on windows I did a glitch free setup but even with that I did not use that laptop for live performance because from time to time the blue screen appeared aparently without reason…I wil see how it will work the macbook air in live situation and pf course the backup macmini
yes , it is insane from 256 Gb to 2 Tb it is a 800 euro gap, but it can be change DIY and the cost is only 120 euro…Of course I will do it if I’ll need it…right now I am sorting my plugins around size and sound quality…the piano is clear that wil be the pianoteq
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I’d go for 32Gb if possible.
I have a huge setup and am using about 26Gb… When I first started, I was using about 19Gb but as @dhj says, don’t forget the future.
Internal HDD isn’t ”as important” because samples can always be loaded from an external.
I would get at least 512 GB internal as the 256 is slower
While that is true, the problem is that that is an extra possible point of failure because you have to worry about another device plus issues with the cable itself.
I take the point. But, I wonder if most users use an external drive without a problem.
Jeff
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I’m sure many do - as I said, it’s just a potential point of failure.
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Very true.
I used to use an external for samples but then found I had enough internal space so I decided to get rid of the external… MAINLY because it’s also an extra piece of hardware I had to setup… it’s only about 10 seconds to do but each second is precious. I have my setup time down to about 12 minutes.
2 88 key controller keyboards
1 rack with soundcard, mic receiver and DI Box
1 laptop
Homemade pedalboard with 2 touch pedals and 1 expression connected to a usb converter
Hello. First post here.
Thinking very hard of getting an Mac Mini M4 for live, as I want to switch from my windows laptop that can do the things I do now, but can’t do what I want in the future.
Meaning 4 live voices that go through 3 waves vst’s each for live pitch correction, some antifeedback and deesser, all at as small latency as possible. I run it through my Yamaha DM3 And I can get it 128 samples stable., and this part is ok. But I’d like to play my keyboard through it too, which is something my laptop won’t do.
So I want to go mac way, but can’t decide if having some 20 kontakt patches (acoustic piano, electric piano, Hammond, strings, accordion, trumpet, sax, brass section , 20 nexus 5 synths and pads, all loaded to be availible at the press of a button (no loading time) is possible with the 24gb version or do I need the 48 one.
From personal experience of the Mac guys, is it doable at 128 samples, 96khz?
Thanks!