More discussions about Apple Silicon

It is very much frustrating that Apple Silicon native support is prioritized over anything else. Most of NI users do not have AS computer and became victims of Apple terror and mess.

The worst thing is, that in foreseen future it will repeat again as Apple will be forced to move back to x86 platform. It looks like Apple will not be able to compete with x86 platform. M1 is fine, M2 will be behind x86 and M3 even more behind, I am affraid... x86 platform develops much faster.

Interesting. You already have the M2 and M3 chip and all the new x86 chips to compare performance?

Did you travel into the future?

appreciate the response. I guess my main concern is that the investment in the mac studio is high with only a 14 day return policy and the chances of knowing whether staying in the ecosystem makes sense for me likely won't be resolved in that time frame . The issue is that NI makes up like 90% of my libraries, mainly because I just thought Komplete 13 Ultimate would satisfy nearly all of my needs for the time being and if the support is not going to keep up with other product lines, I may have to shell out more cash for libraries outside the eco that already have support. The KK keyboard just makes working as a plugin for a DAW so much easier for me that it's hard to forego that integration, but at this point it's the only reason I'm using it over any other midi controller.

In Rosetta, I've experienced a lot of audio cutting out when I playback frozen tracks that have automation on it (most notably from sustain). I've only been able to work around this by bussing to an open audio track and replaying it, but recently when I migrated my projects from an m1 MBP to a mac studio the audio cuts out even for non-frozen tracks. Is this an M1 issue, Monterey, or Logic issue?

With Apple now having full control over both their own silicon and operating system, it is this COMBINATION that will only accelerate the gap in overall user experience of the Apple ecosystem vs the fragmented efforts of alternatives.

Only hope for alternatives is for them to also form an exclusive HW/SW relationship in a fashion similar to Apple.

It is obvious and simple to understand.

We will see... M2 and mainly M3 will show.... If M2 will be just refreshment of M1 (CPU-wise), it would be hard to believe AS will be able to keep pace with x86. And M3 either confirms that, or makes huge performance leap.

Apple doesn't need to outperform Intel or AMD. I'm not sure why you think that's their goal. Right now you can see that Apple can pass down all the RND they did on the M1 chips down to their consumer grade products (the iPad Pro and recently the iPad Air for example). They can't do that with Intel or AMD. They goal is to control their whole stack from the lowliest iPhone up to their most powerful desktop. They can keep passing down the cost of the chip from their most expensive products down to their consumer grade products while they move on the to the next one keeping their production lines always busy. They can't do any of that with AMD or Intel.

They can build specialty silicon directly onto their chips (their media engines, neural engines). That's not something they can do with AMD or Intel. They can have a consistent release schedule on their time. Something they can't do with AMD or Intel. There are way too many benefits for Apple in moving to their own silicon besides "beating x86".