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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Eves" data-source="post: 91423" data-attributes="member: 4463">Re: MacBook Pro Processing Bandwidth Reality CheckI installed my new SSD drive this morning. It feels like a new machine. Then I hooked it up to the X32, and recorded 32 tracks for about an hour in Reaper, while hammering Qlab with all sorts of complex stuff, outputting to four channels back to the X32 (Card 1-4 -&gt; Aux In 1-4) and it never once went over about 30% CPU according to iStat Pro, and the recorded audio was glitch-free. Given that my disk read and write bandwidths (according to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test) are now both of the order of 200MB/s, I would hope that sustaining a 4.5MB/s continuous write while doing other stuff is going to be much of a problem. More testing to follow, of course.OK, so I kinda answered my own question, but thanks for the confidence boost anyway, guys! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simon Eves, post: 91423, member: 4463"] Re: MacBook Pro Processing Bandwidth Reality Check I installed my new SSD drive this morning. It feels like a new machine. Then I hooked it up to the X32, and recorded 32 tracks for about an hour in Reaper, while hammering Qlab with all sorts of complex stuff, outputting to four channels back to the X32 (Card 1-4 -> Aux In 1-4) and it never once went over about 30% CPU according to iStat Pro, and the recorded audio was glitch-free. Given that my disk read and write bandwidths (according to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test) are now both of the order of 200MB/s, I would hope that sustaining a 4.5MB/s continuous write while doing other stuff is going to be much of a problem. More testing to follow, of course. OK, so I kinda answered my own question, but thanks for the confidence boost anyway, guys! :) [/QUOTE]

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