I tried getting rid of as much stuff on my internal drive as possible but im at a point where i cant delete anymore. Like is 22GB even nearly enough? or should i have way more space on it? From What Bylan is saying that sounds like what the main issue might be. I know having more storage on the internal drive helps but i have no idea on how much the radio should be. 250 GB storage and only 22 GB left on the drive. I have the 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 processorĢ. My audio interface is the Duet 2 from Apogee.ġ. Same for instrument/vocal groups (sent to buses) Im using all sends and buses for reverbs, delays, effects etc. Mostly working in 44.1 K sample rate (Same goes for the current project) multithreading is set to playback tracks (seems to help a bit with the CPU)ĥ. Buffer size is all the way up to 1024 when im mixing.ģ. Here is a little more in depth about my setup and situation to answer your questions.ġ. So thought it was just a hard drive not a SSD. I guess for some reason i always assumed when the internal drive on the MBP is called Macintosh HD i thought the HD stood for Hard drive.

I had no idea the internal drive on my MBP mid 2015 was a SSD. Like a USB C to a USB adapter? OR a thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2 adapter? Would i need to get any new adapters for my mac to connect the SSD drive? Would any of them be compatible with my macbook and would i get optimal speed and performance from the SSD drive? (very confused about all the connections and how they apply to my mac) I know a lot of the newer SSD drives use USB 3.1 gen 2 or USB C and thunderbolt 3. What kind of SSD drive should i get to get better performance on my mac? Here are the specs for the entire macbook: * Two Thunderbolt 2 ports (up to 20 Gbps) Will going with solution 2 & 3 optimize the music production performance a lot?

Number two definitely sounds like the easiest solution, and im thinking about combining number 2 and 3. Storing all my instruments and sound libraries on the drive Keeping all my LPX projects and audio files on a separate SSD drive.ģ. Running my OS on the SSD drive instead of my internal driveĢ. I`ve been reading about the benefits about optimizing your macbook pro with a SSD drive for different purposes.ġ. The plugins, the DAW, all audio files, the operation system, Logic Pro X and so on. Right now i dont have a hard drive and everything is running on my macbooks internal hard drive. Granted i'm using a ton of plugins at this point in the mixing stage. My buffer size is all the way up and its still crashing at this point. I`ve been thinking about optimizing my Macbook Pro mid 2015 for music production as i have been running into CPU overloads lately when mixing.

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