• uis@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    To be fair I have no idea why audio plugins need so much ram

      • Jentu
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        9 months ago

        Apple has a masterclass of tiering their products in just a way so that in every tier but the upper tiers, you’re giving up something really important. If you spend the least you possibly can on a MacBook, apple guarantees you’re going to have a very bad time for “doing the bare minimum to be seen with a laptop with an apple logo on it”. Their whole tier system is an exercise in “how can we get away with fucking up these things just enough so the customer feels like it is necessary to spend a little bit more” every step of the way. Then they make it unupgradable so you can’t sidestep their crafted feature tier system.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 months ago

          nvidia also does this. It’s actually insane.

          Love spending 200 USD on 16GB of ram in 2024 because of apple, very cool, or however much they charge, it’s still too much.

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      9 months ago

      Latency is a bitch. If you want anything to run on real time with zero latency, then it means everything, including those pretty large sample data, has to be stored as close to the processor as possible. Compressing/decompressing takes a shit tonne of time and effort, and to keep both delay down and fidelity up, you have to pay in absurd amounts of RAM to the DAW shrine.