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Hello.
I am thinking of buying a MacBook Pro M3 or similar to be able to use the synchron pianos in real time without any type of restriction, that is, to be able to use all the microphones, all the chords that I need to play classically and without any type of cut-off. in the sound. What model would you need and how many gigs of ram to not have any problems when touching it?
Thank you so much.
Does anyone use a macbook pro for synchron pianos? Sorry to keep asking my question...but no one answers. Thanks.
Sorry for the delay in replying. Thank you very much for the reply. The funny thing is that I don't see any MacBook with 32GB of RAM. All the ones I've seen, both the Pro and the Air, only have 24GB of RAM.
Trying to help: I just bought a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 24GB of unified memory a few weeks ago.
I wasn't sure if I would get the same performance as a Windows 11 with an Intel 11900KF + 64 GB RAM with a fast NVME M.2 hard drive.
Now I'm playing the Fazioli F308 with 6 mics and the CPU is running at 20-30%, no cracks or pops whatsoever. I am a very demanding classical pianist, more interested in live performance than anything else. You do need to tweak the number of cores used for loading/straming though.
I use a baseline MacBook Air M2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD just for piano solo projects involving the Synchron Concert D-274, full library (not the full Synchron Pianos collection due to HD size, obviously.) Runs flawlessly with resolutions of 24bit@96KHz, 32 and 64 sample buffer sizes playing/recording real time, latency at around 2 milliseconds, 28% CPU usage in Ableton Live 12.1.5. I assign for intermediate to advanced pieces at least 386 voices for polyphony, and enable multicore usage. These Apple silicon machines run better with extremely low buffers. I/O rig: Behringer UMC404HD 192KHz interface, and SL88 Studio MIDI controller with Roland DP-10 continuous sustain pedal and two other generic piano style switches. I highly recommend ARM Macs for music/audio projects.
Hi.
I started this thread back in the day and abandoned the idea of buying a MacBook until now, when I'm once again thinking about buying one that will allow me to play synchronized pianos in real time with all the microphones, plenty of polyphony, and no audio dropouts. I'm talking about playing classical piano, with lots of chords and pedals... Do you think this M4 MacBook Pro would be enough, or is it still short on RAM to play synchronized pianos in real time with the full potential? Thanks in advance.
Apple M4 MacBook with 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine
24GB of unified memory
@JLuisSalas said:
Hi.
I started this thread back in the day and abandoned the idea of buying a MacBook until now, when I'm once again thinking about buying one that will allow me to play synchronized pianos in real time with all the microphones, plenty of polyphony, and no audio dropouts. I'm talking about playing classical piano, with lots of chords and pedals... Do you think this M4 MacBook Pro would be enough, or is it still short on RAM to play synchronized pianos in real time with the full potential? Thanks in advance.
Apple M4 MacBook with 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine
24GB of unified memory
I sure think it will. I recently got a USB4 external SSD and it's faster reading from it than the internal drive in my MacBook Air M2. Got it because I wanted more available audio content SSD space, and not because of audio dropout issues. I tested playing back three sample libraries at the same time (full Concert D-274, Ravel and Vintage D) and had no issues or audio dropouts at all under Live 12.1, Logic Pro 11 and Luna 1.8.2. The MB Pro you mention shouldn't have any issues either using the internal or an external SSD. RAM has not been an issue for me, and my MacBook has 8GB.
