This puts significant strain on any Mac – particularly when the tracks you’re duplicating contain chunky software instruments married with a whole bunch of even chunkier effects plugins. The easiest way to do this while filming yourself and reacting to what’s happening before your eyes is to simply continually duplicate the tracks you’ve already created. With YouTube videos affording such limited time for these stress tests, I decided to head straight into brute force territory. And, remember – this is the base spec M2 Pro Mac mini with 16GB of unified memory and 512GB of storage.
With the basis of the track built, I was ready to really test the M2 Pro Mac mini. That’s all you ask for when making music beachballs, crap latency, and DAW crashes can completely destroy your creative flow. My progress was temporarily halted with one crash, which was due to a plugin I’ve always had trouble with, but beyond that, it was buttery smooth.
I should note at this juncture that my experience making that piece of music on the M2 Pro Mac mini was absolutely joyous. Although I used a few stock Logic plugins, the majority came from third parties such as Waves, Soundtoys, Korg, Valhalla, and Baby Audio.
To prepare for the test, I spent an afternoon throwing together a piece of music that ended up containing 23 tracks and countless plugins and software instruments. There are many ways you can run real-world benchmarks for music making, but the path I chose this week was typically devoid of any structure or pre-planning. This means I can quickly throw together a track and ensure I’m really putting the computer under some strain with my use of plugins and virtual instruments. Thankfully, having made music in my spare time since about the age of 12, I know my way around applications like Logic Pro (the DAW I used for this test). Thankfully, I’ve received enough comments on YouTube videos and left against these blog posts to confirm that my audience would like to see more music production-focused content.
Naturally, I needed to find a way to work music-making into my content business. Like any hobby, it has regularly taken a back seat while life, work, and becoming a father take over, but I’ve never abandoned it entirely. As noted earlier, music production has long been a hobby of mine.
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