Here are previous power test numbers for comparison. The internal sound card was used in both tests. Session settings, including sample rate, buffer and dropout protection were identical on both machines.

You can read more about what software is supported with Big Sur using our Big Sur compatibility guide.

We produce these power test articles to indicate the kind of power you might expect to get once Pro Tools is ported to run on Big Sur on the new Apple M1 computers. If you would like to run the test on your machine, download the Pro Tools power test.įinally, these tests are not an endorsement or recommendation of using an M1 powered Apple Mac right now. Secondly, the M1 power test sits on macOS Big Sur, which isn't officially supported when using Pro Tools - at this time. Our tests are purely to report how powerful the computer is. We'd like you to note again that this is not an audio test, so we have muted all throughout. We copy and add as many instances of each track until Pro Tools stops working reliably. Then we add as many instances of Avid Eleven LE until the session no longer plays without giving playback errors. We add 256 instrument tracks, insert Boom! with MIDI so all instances are playing the virtual instrument. On every audio track, we insert Channel Strip and D-verb, so that's 128 instances of each. We create 128 audio tracks with audio on every track, with audio edits taking place every few seconds.Įvery track has fader automation throughout playback for the entire session. Our Test Apple MacĪs with all our power tests, we are not aware of any current Pro Tools benchmark, so we created our own. We have already run Apple MacBook Pro M1 Audio Power Test in Pro Tools, Apple MacBook Pro M1 Audio Power Test - Studio One and Audio Power Test with Apple Logic Pro and Space Designer if you want to see how they performed. Our audio power test articles are a series of tests we do across various DAW's to see how they perform against benchmark machines. In this latest audio power test, we put the new M1 Mac Mini against its Intel sibling to see how they both perform, in Pro Tools 2020.

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