Maschine MK3 performance on Mac

Junolab

I never got it fully going with my MK3, but after getting a Komplete Kontrol MK3, I jumped at a used Maschine MK3. So far so good.

However I notice a huge difference in performance on my Intel Mac comparing to my old MK3. Basically every time I do a change on the screens (e.g. go to browse) everything stutters. I cannot do much multitasking on the device without stuttering. Such things never happened on my MK2 and Mac also doesn't show any sign to a struggle.

So I'm thinking this might be because of the built-in audio interface even though it its not in use. Does anyone have experience with such an issue?

Schmapps1

I’m using a 2012 i7 MacBook Pro still, and Maschine mk3 runs very smoothly for me 🤷‍♂️

Junolab

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/91659#Comment_91659

Yeah I don't think its a performanec issue as my 6-core 64GB ram Intel Mac Mini should be more than enough. And MK2 ran fluidly. Yet, somethings up which causes all the stutter.

Junolab

No one? I can see in Activity monitor that Maschine MK3 uses more than 100% on a single core, yet there's plenty of headroom in other cores. And the exact same presets gives this peak on the MK3 which didn't happen with the MK2

darkogav

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/16309/maschine-mk3-performance-on-mac

What stutters? The audio or screen? Whats the buffer at?

It could be the built in audio interface. I used to run Maschine and MK3 on a realy old Intel Mini without issues for a very long time. But I had a NI Audio 6 interface as well.