I don't think playing a typical gig puts that kind of stress on a system.Think you need years of piano lessons or advanced music theory to contribute to your worship team? Maybe you believe you need to be fluent in reading or even writing sheet music. Again, I might be wrong, but it's been my understanding that processors get hot when they're used heavily for a sustained amount of time – like transcoding a large video file. The processor usage meters on Plogue Bidule (there's a percentage indicator for each of the four cores of my i7) rarely go over 30% - and they fluctuate a lot based on my playing. It's possible they were spinning at a low speed, but I know what they sound like when they get going – and banging away playing my mix of instruments and effects plugins, on my 9-year-old MacBook Pro, at a 128 buffer, I don't hear the fans. Of course M1 chips consume less power than Intels, however, does playing a gig with a laptop rig really stress any modern processor that much? In all the years I've sat at home playing my live gig setup I have never heard the fans - ever. I might be mistaken, but isn't the main function of a computer's cooling system to carry heat generated by the processor & other components away from those parts? Direct sun heating up the outside case is a secondary source of heat and may not be factored into a typical cooling system design of a computer. Not to beat a dead horse but I still believe an M1 Mac isn't less apt to have problems in direct sun. There were many excellent suggestions for ways to cool a laptop, and also posts from a few showing that hardware keyboards aren't immune from overheating issues either. If anyone has time to kill, below is a link to my thread from 2 ½ years ago describing the gig I did in direct sun. I wouldn't bet on that assumption, but maybe we'll find out for sure since summer is coming (though it seems very far away with the lastest temps in the NYC area!). Somehow I still have the idea that some folks here think an M1-powered Mac is less susceptible to direct-sun overheating issues because the processor itself runs cooler than older Macs. Anyway, that's getting OT, but I did want to mention it only to point out that in this particular circumstance, having an M1 - equipped Mac would have made no difference! I'm sure a brand new MacBook Pro would have shut off just like mine did -you could have fried an egg on it! The show went fine, the shutdown happened during sound check and I got shade & a fan happening for the actual gig. We had to set up in front of the headliner, the stage was packed and there was absolutely no space with shade I could put the laptop in. We fly with gear, but not sun shades! The venue had a big supply (they've obviously seen this scenario) that was used up by the headliner (who set up and sound checked before us). It's possible some of us knew it was outdoors, but I didn't, and also never expected a major venue to have an uncovered stage. "Just unboxed a brand new 14” Mac Book M1 Proī3X works just fine, stand alone and inside MainStage."Ī perfect storm of events led to my "shutdown" issue and taught me a lesson: be more prepared for outdoor gigs! This was a venue new to us. The text of post from above, just changed the font color: That's an interesting post you copied - here's what it looks like in my browser! My very simple conclusion is 3.6 is optimized for the new machines.Ī friend also just got a brand new 16” MBP and has the same perfect out of box resultsĪfter B3X installs I will begin building my concerts up and stress testing.ī3X works just fine, stand alone and inside MainStage. Patch names not visible, maxed out memory bar, etc. I ran thru this same test on an older non M1 MBP, and I did have a lot of the issues. Playing monster chords with sustain on Jup-8 V4, CPU maxed at total 20% This is in the Synth concert so those other things are also active. Tested them stand alone then created channel strips Then within that activated and installed the specific instruments I use. I then went to my Arturia account and downloaded the software center. The patch list has the proper background color with icons and patch names.Įven with Space D active, CPU barely ticks Then to see how it looked, I opened up the built in Synths concert.Įverything, and I mean everything looked good. Launched Mainstage and selected the other sounds I wanted. Waited for it to finish downloading the basic library. Then went right to the App Store and downloaded Mainstage 3.6. Turned off Siri and block messenger from opening. Did the usual setup, removed things I will never use on this machine. J ust unboxed a brand new 14” Mac Book M1 Pro Copied from my recent post on Facebook MainStage forum
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