Shabba Khe
It’s not really an issue since I know I’m due for an upgraded laptop soon, but I was curious about something I noticed regarding RAM usage across my Macs.
My main workhorse is an M1 Mac (Tahoe) with 16GB of RAM, and I also have two older Intel Macs (Catalina and Sequoia) with the same amount of RAM. I understand that Stems 2.0 — and by extension the lyrics editor — can’t be used in a live setting on the Intel machines. However, when using the BPM editor with Fluid Beat Detection, the Intel Macs maintain steady RAM usage that doesn’t exceed 2GB, while the M1 quickly spikes to using all available RAM and then starts going into swap because of it.
Overall, performance is still fine, but the difference in RAM usage between the machines is quite significant, and I was hoping to understand why that is.
My main workhorse is an M1 Mac (Tahoe) with 16GB of RAM, and I also have two older Intel Macs (Catalina and Sequoia) with the same amount of RAM. I understand that Stems 2.0 — and by extension the lyrics editor — can’t be used in a live setting on the Intel machines. However, when using the BPM editor with Fluid Beat Detection, the Intel Macs maintain steady RAM usage that doesn’t exceed 2GB, while the M1 quickly spikes to using all available RAM and then starts going into swap because of it.
Overall, performance is still fine, but the difference in RAM usage between the machines is quite significant, and I was hoping to understand why that is.
Posted 2 hours ago