@mischievoustomato@WashedOutGundamPilot@a1ba I've been burned too many times over the Skylake years so I'm pretty unwilling to buy anything blue myself these days, I'll update my opinions when I use someone else's machine and get pleasantly surprised
@WashedOutGundamPilot@a1ba It's impressive with memory management and all but seeing 2700 dollaridoos for an M3 with 8GB is very different to the old 1300 dollaridoo M1 MBA and I think it's a little disgusting to have "Pro" in the name at that point.
@WashedOutGundamPilot@a1ba They don't have to play yield games with RAM, it's attached to the SoC post-validation. The wacky 48Gb (6GB) and 96Gb (12GB) modules used by the 18GB and 36GB MBPs might be a yield thing from Micron or whoever they're going with this time, though. On Apple's side it's only the reduced CPU (lmao 11core) and GPU core count models that are shipping gated-off defects.
@lebronjames75@Zerglingman@jeff@hj@Moon I've seen more mics that use two inputs as different gain stages than actual stereo mics, especially when it comes to ones I'd actually use for voice comms. In fact, downmixing has caused me more inconvenience in the past because it assumes my 16i interface should be averaged to a mono input, making my single mic channel #1 very very quiet in Discord et al.
@jeff@Zerglingman@hj@Moon@lebronjames75 I don't try things often enough on Android but for the longest time it had both SHIT round trip audio latency and SHIT bluetooth latency outside of the kb/m stack so I can see why people that want to do music production don't even bother trying it.
@lebronjames75@Zerglingman@jeff@hj@Moon For the longest time the only display output mode on iPad Pro was display mirror at the native 4:3 with your choice of rotation. From what I hear that may have changed in the past year or so, but I also don't expect many iOS DAWs to take advantage of it, and if the external touchscreen support is as nonexistent as macOS, good luck getting a 43" touchscreen for $$ instead of $$$$ (I have a really nice cheap setup for this on linux using aliexpress infrared adhesive frames! only software that really uses it is stuff I make myself though hehe)
@lebronjames75@Moon@Zerglingman@hj@jeff actually that's unrealistic, the hi-Z inputs are usually on those channels so my synth would be on one of the line level channels, more realistic would be "what if I have a guitar on 1 and bass on 2 (the hi-Z channels) leaving my mic on 3"
@hj@Moon@Zerglingman@jeff@lebronjames75 Hell, sometimes I even encounter things that lack device selection. Sometimes this can be forced externally without too much trouble but it's insane how inconsiderate developers can be of usecases beyond their own.
@hj@Zerglingman@jeff@Moon@lebronjames75 >I also understand that he would (unlike you) set up proper device splitting. I had a shell script to run a pulseaudio command to make a virtual device for that channel, haven't moved that over to my current desktop so when I infrequently want to VC I switch my XR18 to stereo USB mode and send my mic channel to both channels. I wish software would not assume common use cases are the only ones worth supporting and just have a proper channel selector in place.
@lebronjames75@Zerglingman@jeff@hj@Moon >the ipad's method of user input is just clunky and inaccurate for certain procedures, causing them to take more time on every single input. I think this is an incorrect assumption, multitouch DAWs should rival midi controllers on many procedures. The shortcomings I'd expect iOS to have would be: 1) multitasking is an afterthought (actual users can correct me on this,) but DAW users are used to working almost entirely within one app at a given time anyway (contrast Jack+nondaw users) 2) smaller (but still ample) selection of hardware and VSTs 3) poor fuckhuge display support (say 43" 4k as a starting point)
Having had Windows machines become incapable of using a specific audio interface despite hours of reinstalling drivers in the past, I'd say the time investment is more than just learning the setup, but I'm sure people more serious than me do that on a dedicated machine that NEVER updates or connects to the internet so that things don't randomly change down the line.
@opal@Zerglingman@jeff@hj@Moon@lebronjames75https://non.tuxfamily.org/ it's a very unix-y approach, I think Carla has session management stuff too but I didn't get into that. It's not all roses and you may end up writing a lot of your own glue if your ideal workflow doesn't match his, but that can be part of the fun.
@opal@Zerglingman@jeff@Moon >you can really only be on one server/channel at a time what, you don't run several channels at once with ambisonics directional sound sources? :cirno_heh:
@lebronjames75@Zerglingman@jeff@hj@Moon that sounds like it would work for me, but I would prefer VoIP software to always have individual channel selection in case I do something radical like plug in to ch3 because I have a synth on 1+2 or something
@hj@Zerglingman@jeff@Moon@lebronjames75 What, people don't care about not being able to gain up quiet participants? Most VoIP software is seriously lacking outside of very very basic use cases, selecting a hardcoded channel number from a source instead of a configurable one is just one sin among many.