Exactly. I don’t try to diminish other people’s experiences. There are many use cases that are probably just fine and OP has to test. If he just records stuff into Live he’s probably fine.
But in my experience I couldn’t use Live on Windows to do the same thing I did with FL (i.e. heavy MIDI automations, even with M4L devices). And I had to ditch it. And now I’m in my second year of ping pong conversation with my dude Brendan from Live support team (“is it working?”/“not yet”).
And I don’t have those issues with Live on my Macbook so I think it may be a safer choice. If OP does want a PC we’ll help him chose one ^^
A proper upgrade of my MacBook Pro would probably cost me somewhere close to $2,500. That would get me a 15 inch i7 2.6 ghz 512 ssd (mid 2018). Right now I have a 2013 version of this laptop, difference being 2.3 ghz processor. I’m just trying to avoid paying $2,500. So maybe 1,500- 2,000 might be easier to swallow.
Then my tip would be to check out the Dell XPS, or Lenovo T480/T480s.
Whatever you end up with, figure out what the returns policy is. When you recieve it, run it through your typical workflow, stress test them with plugins, and at least run these tests to see if there are any major problems with DPC latency: https://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon
What I meant was the use of standard USB connected audio interfaces like Focusrite, Presonus, RME, etc.
You should check out, whether OB is supporting multiple instruments on Windows. AFAIK OB uses it’s own technique. At least the OB description doesn’t say otherwise …
I have a late 2011 MBP that I’m still using for most of my musics and for all of my collab/client projects. Have you upgraded the drive to an SSD? That helped alot in my case, but I’m also offloading a lot of my DSP duties to my Apollo twin quad…
I’m pretty sure my next mac will be a i7 mac mini. With iPads etc, I feel like I dont have any need for a laptop anymore, a desktop computer and a tablet covers all my computing needs. I only use hardware for gigging so that point too became redundant for me.
Now having said that, windows hardware is a much better bang for the buck… But I’m mentally stuck to mac OS, only use windows if I have to
Yes I upgraded to ssd a year or so ago. The problem with my Mac is pretty much physical, but I also noticed quite of bit of slowing down on Ableton Live startup. I know I can optimize my performance but like I said the Mac is all banged up. It’s time to upgrade I think.
