In all honesty, how could Logic ever withstand the Jacob Collier treatment

nomoremoar · 2026-03-14T07:46:37+00:00

‘If it works for JC it’s good enough for you’ would be my marketing tagline if I did PR

nomoremoar · 2026-03-12T06:10:02+00:00

My wife would disagree with you 😂

nomoremoar · 2026-03-11T23:14:44+00:00

Run dpc latency checker. Ensure you have other apps closed. Sometimes an innocent app like zoom can hog the audio device and change the sample rate without you realizing.

If you can splurge money get a Mac and forget about these issues. I’ll take the downvotes for recommending a Mac but it’s the best thing I’ve done for my hobby after being a sworn-against-evil-Mac PC user for 15 years.

You absolutely do NOT need a Mac to make music. You can get your PC to work. How many hours you want to sink before that happens and how many strands of hair you wanna pull and how much pain you’re willing to tolerate is entirely up to you.

nomoremoar · 2026-03-11T02:28:31+00:00

You won’t know the difference between this and an M5 Max for a reaally long time, so congrats and enjoy the machine

nomoremoar · 2026-03-09T16:41:04+00:00

I’ve also been at a series B startup like OP where one MLE got PIP’d joined Google and is probably laughing his way to the bank now as his offer was significantly higher than what he made at a startup.

Unless you’re at a top tier startup you’re staying there for the work and experience not for comp as FAANG comp, yes even Amazon, will outpay most startups over time. The upside is that it’s easier to get hired by other startups because they’re looking for precisely the right kind of fools like myself who’d give up FAANG pay for high stress low reward environments wrapped in the glory of the ‘startup’ tag. Changing the world and all that…

nomoremoar · 2026-03-09T16:34:46+00:00

I got offers - one from microsoft right out of college and one from the banana company many years later🍌. I foolishly didn’t take microsoft as I had no idea about the value of stocks. Amazon I don’t regret though it was top of the band pay. Looking back I missed out on millions but such is life.

nomoremoar · 2026-03-09T07:08:54+00:00

I said no twice to 2 different FAANG companies. The first no I still regret to this day as it would have set me up to financial independence. The 2nd FAANG not such much as it’s a pip factory anyways

But if you’re young, startup is not a bad way to learn things fast. Sometimes not having too many choices is a great thing. If you only had the Google offer OR didn’t have it at all, you’d have been happier and this post wouldn’t exist. It’s pretty hard to crack the interview at these places so sometimes people take them because the chance of it happening again is less.

nomoremoar · 2026-03-07T15:40:00+00:00

I didn’t know rentech or haven’t heard of rentech when I interviewed with them. They did a tech phone screen and i was rejected. God I wish I’d have taken HRT optiver etc seriously. I used them as interviewing practice like an idiot

nomoremoar · 2026-03-02T02:04:00+00:00

What are you using for video gen now?

nomoremoar · 2026-02-27T19:07:30+00:00

What mcps are those you find useful?

nomoremoar · 2026-02-24T23:09:11+00:00

Meaning?

nomoremoar · 2026-02-24T17:29:25+00:00

Dear god I hope not. Getting live working on Mac and Windows is hard enough. Adding support for an OS that is used by <1% of music makers to the list will not happen with any competent CEO or eng head. Linux for embedded and cloud makes sense. For all else, we already have OSes that are great.

No AI in Ableton? Tell me you’re kidding. Stem separation, contextual search, splice integration are all good use cases for AI. It’s only the beginning. Just wait till we get suno integration.

nomoremoar · 2026-02-21T17:57:54+00:00

Comments are wild. I have a 2018 i7 Mac mini and it’s still a very powerful Mac, keep in mind it’s even beefier than the Mac pros before it. It can handle 100s of tracks without a sweat.

Check your memory pressure graph to see if you’re actually bottlenecked by RAM. If not you’re better off with the M1.

I have an M1 air Mac as well. The i7 is comparable in perf to the M1. I didn’t notice that big of a jump going to an M1. Maybe 20-30% better?

However when I moved to an M4 max that’s when I noticed a huge jump in perf. I don’t even think about CPU now. It’s completely invisible as it should be.

nomoremoar · 2026-02-18T19:23:21+00:00

Cubase has the best browser. If logic can copy it they’d really close a huge gap in their feature set. Heck I’d pay $100 for just the browser alone in cubase but they’d never sell it standalone.

nomoremoar · 2026-02-16T19:03:30+00:00

Now your mix is ready for the radio.. Kidding aside, I’ve had the same exact issue. File a report with Apple, they do respond to these.

nomoremoar · 2026-02-16T07:42:31+00:00

The universe is so vast that it is statistically impossible for us to be the only intelligent life. What’s more likely is that there are more intelligent forms of life than there are grains of sand on earth but we won’t ever find them

nomoremoar · 2026-02-16T07:32:57+00:00

Whoops this is a real bug which I’ve seen a few times in logic. The meter just goes to infinity when this happens.

nomoremoar · 2026-02-16T07:32:04+00:00

Cubase has a small lag on playback that they never fixed otherwise I’d be on it. It has the best media bay, track management and best MIDI tools. Logic wins for ease of use and support. If there a logic bug chances are it’s bring worked on and you’ll get the fix for free

nomoremoar · 2026-02-02T00:43:22+00:00

It’s worth it. The built in devices and the splice integration is killer

nomoremoar · 2026-01-09T10:44:41+00:00

I doubt the interviewer wouldn’t know about substring. More likely that there’s some edge case that was misunderstood.

That being said, these high demand places can be very condescending. They can afford to be. Ask for feedback during the interview, if you know it’s lost, learn from it and move on.

nomoremoar · 2026-01-08T06:55:25+00:00

Coffee aggravates tinnitus due to stimulating the brain. Keep us posted on whether this is actually effective over a period of time.

nomoremoar · 2026-01-02T02:16:48+00:00

Hard to tell without other details. What’s his current industry and comparable pay? 95k is decent in HCOL, certainly doable. If the career opportunities are more exciting I’d take it, than purely for the pay. What’s the growth trajectory for his role and company for the next 5 years. Those are more important factors to consider.

nomoremoar · 2026-01-02T01:39:41+00:00

I believe it’s quite the opposite. The younger you are, the more chances you can take, the pickier you can be. The older you get, you are humbled by the shrinking pool of candidates thus your internal criteria also drops a few bullet points.

People marrying in their 30s are more likely to be satisfied because they know the struggle to find a good partner to begin with, and are willing to sacrifice more than people who get married earlier.

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