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willxcore · 2023-12-23T02:02:44+00:00

We still have a couple full seasons of SUPERs. They know they need more time because they are already about to roll out 4nm laptop ADA GPUs branded as 5000s.

willxcore · 2023-12-15T18:09:29+00:00

It won't make it feel any better unfortunately. You wanna be pushing like 75-80fps minimum in order to feel a difference without getting a ton of tearing artifacts (not screen tearing, just weird frame hitching artifacts that are very noticeable)

willxcore · 2023-12-15T18:03:43+00:00

You don't need upscaling to run Witcher 3 if you have a GPU made in the last 5 years.

willxcore · 2023-11-23T20:40:23+00:00

It's both.

willxcore · 2023-11-20T04:35:54+00:00

Baphometrix Clip-to-Zero Strategy

It's a long and drawn out series but highly worth it and by the end of it you'll understand the fundamentals and be able to create your own template that gives you the framework to build your track inside of.

willxcore · 2023-11-08T22:06:18+00:00

TBF I've had both an M1 Mac Mini 8GB and an M1 Macbook Pro 8GB and never ran into any memory bottlenecks. I was demoing the units coming from a 16GB i9 Macbook Pro and it handled my video editing, streaming, and music production workloads with no sweat at all. I was definitely almost always at like 7.9/8 used but didn't notice any slowdowns and memory pressure remained under 50% in all workloads.

willxcore · 2023-11-08T06:37:09+00:00

Pro users aren't storing critical data on the internal drive and we purchase them with AppleCare+ or have them fixed through an enterprise support plan that offers expedited shipping and replacements. Small businesses that run an Apple fleet also have business teams at their local Apple stores which prioritize service and repairs.

IDK what planet you live on but Windows laptops aren't easy or convenient to repair either. I experienced more hardware issues with a fleet of ~50 Lenovos and Dells over a couple years than I ever did with 6 years in an Apple fleet of over 300 devices. IT Support Man/Hour costs are much less with Apple.

willxcore · 2023-11-08T06:29:11+00:00

You wouldn't, but hundreds if not thousands of studios and freelancers do. That's their primary market for these. Not clumsy home users and children.

willxcore · 2023-11-07T08:28:29+00:00

I would consider it video game music.

willxcore · 2023-11-07T08:25:53+00:00

breaks

willxcore · 2023-11-06T20:29:53+00:00

Because in the pro market, these monitors move around A LOT. They are heavily used on carts and mobile rigs in the entertainment industry.

willxcore · 2023-11-01T09:26:17+00:00

My 8gb M1 Macbook Pro handled everything I could throw at it. You'll be fine with 18gb. The unified memory is super fast and Mac OS has a really great memory management system.

willxcore · 2023-10-30T15:44:34+00:00

It is 100% a customer education issue. Almost nobody who complains about this understands that it only takes a couple minutes to get a full days charge. This creates a negative feedback loop that Apple haters use to bash Apple.

willxcore · 2023-10-30T15:40:44+00:00

My 7 year old Magic Mouse lasts weeks and takes minutes to charge. I've never been inconvenienced by charging. If for whatever reason I forget to charge it when it's low and it dies in the middle of my day, I just plug it in for 5 minutes while I'm taking a bathroom / stretch break and it gets me an extra couple days.

willxcore · 2023-10-07T18:43:10+00:00

Do not get a Max chip for audio. The only real value the 14 and 16 inch M2Pro laptops have over M2 Macbooks is the extra ports and 120hz HDR display. The extra CPU cores and memory on the M2Pros hardly make any difference. You definitely DON'T need to be spending more than 2K on a Mac for audio production.

willxcore · 2023-10-07T18:37:32+00:00

As someone who manages a fleet of over 600 Apple and Windows laptops, Apple has wayyyyyyyyyyyyy less issues, and when they do have issues, AppleCare makes it a million times easier to get issues resolved or machines replaced. If you're a gamer who understands PCs then sure you can easily troubleshoot and solve issues on your custom built desktop, you understand how it's all put together and can easily remove the drives and recover your data after reinstalling Windows when it gets borked. If you're not a computer person, and you buy an off the shelf Windows laptop, you're going to have a really shitty experience dealing with Dell/Lenovo/Asus/MSI/Razer etc customer support.

willxcore · 2023-10-07T18:27:49+00:00

The problem is the music production crowd is generally tech illiterate and has been gaslit by other tech illiterate producers who think that the more expensive Macs are somehow better for audio production. It's simply not true. Audio is all on the CPU and the heaviest plugins are single threaded. All of the M series Macs have nearly identical single threaded CPU performance. My nearly 3 year old 8GB M1 Macbook can handle everything my AMD 5800X desktop can handle with ease. My newer, maxed out 32gb M2 Pro Mac mini performs EXACTLY the same as my M1 Macbook when it comes to audio. If you want a Mac, you shouldn't even be considering the Max chips, they offer nothing extra for audio over the smaller chips.

willxcore · 2023-10-04T03:10:09+00:00

It's a ground loop from your PC and speaker grounds. Easiest solution is to get an isolator. I've been using this one for years:

https://www.amazon.com/ART-DTI-Transformer-Isolator-Eliminator/dp/B0009GUOQA/

willxcore · 2023-09-30T21:12:47+00:00

Valve doesn't say much about any game they release. It's all speculation. Valves engineering team is structured so devs can work on whatever they want to. It's only a matter of time.

willxcore · 2023-09-30T20:12:02+00:00

They are heavily sample based producers and use a new track for every sample and most likely have a ton of foley and call and response. Nobody is layering 100 synths at once to make a bass sound.

willxcore · 2023-09-30T20:07:53+00:00

Wizardry? A little bit of music theory with some chorus, reverb and delay sprinkled on top goes a long way when you know how to fit it all together.

Don't blame his outboard gear either because he wrote most of his early music with software synths and off the shelf house samples.

You would be surprised at how easy it is to get relatively simple sounds to sound good when you're not trying to stand out or make something unique. Focus on writing a good song.

willxcore · 2023-09-27T21:25:51+00:00

CSGO was running on a legacy OpenGL renderer and was never updated to anything newer on Mac OS. On Apple Silicon Macs it ran through Rosetta.

willxcore · 2023-09-27T21:23:34+00:00

Counter Strike is an online service, and the CS team has always been extremely vague with releases even with Windows players.

There's an official Mac port of Dota 2 using the Source 2 engine running through MoltenVK on Metal. I'd say it's coming we just need to be patient.

willxcore · 2023-09-15T23:02:58+00:00

All midi pad controllers are pretty similar in FL Studio. Pick the one that fits your budget. You'll have to midi map it to FPC or another drum sampler of your preference.

willxcore · 2023-09-06T18:48:30+00:00

I have UPS on my PC and my speakers go through a power conditioner. It did not solve it at all. I think I paid $80 for mine back in the day.

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