I’ve been holding off upgrading my MacBook for a while but when Apple announced the new 2021 MacBook Pro with the beastly M1 Pro cpu I knew it was time! But was the upgrade going to be smooth? Will any of my music production hardware work with it? Will Ableton and all my plugins run on it? I thought I’d make a video of the whole upgrade process for me.
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↓ 2021 Macbook Pro 16″ Spec
Apple M1 Pro (10 core)
16GB Ram
1TB HDD
Ableton 11 Buffer Size: 512 Samples (27.2ms)
Ableton 11.1 Beta Buffer Size: 512 Samples (27.2ms)
↓ 2015 Macbook 15″ Spec
2.5ghz Intel i7 (4 core)
16GB Ram
500GB HDD
Ableton 11 Buffer Size: 2048 Samples (48.6ms)
00:00 – Intro
00:32 – Upgrading Hardware
02:05 – Audio Interface dongle craziness
03:16 – Migrating Projects/Samples
03:41 – RME Audio Drivers
04:33 – Ableton 11 & 11.1 beta
05:27 – Installing Plugins (M1/Silicon Compatibility)
06:25 – Does it all work?
06:53 – Checking plugins
09:31 – Ableton 11.1 beta &…