Question

According to this test: Studio One uses only performance cores on Apple Mx machines. Needles to say this causes SO to lag behind other DAWs in terms of performance, especially on systems with high efficiency-core count. It seems like a waste of resources, to let the e-cores run idle, while performance cores struggle with heavy load.

Reaper can use e-cores, so does Cubase. It is doable.

Answer 1

How is no one else talking about this? I “upgraded” from an M1 Mac Mini to an M2 Pro Mac Mini, and the change was not as great as I thought it would be. Reaper and Cubase are definitely ahead on proper CPU usage.  Hope to see Studio One follow soon.

Answer 2

Looking forward to the answer from Presonus!

Answer 3

+1 for an answer from somebody from the company

Answer 4

I want this please - at least give us the option to turn it on?

Answer 5

Hard to believe this hasn’t been addressed yet.

Answer 6

I mean the REAPER dev team is like two people... I'm sure the S1 dev team can manage to implement this. Spent quite a bit on this Mac Studio solely for music production... kind of disheartening S1 isn't capable of utilizing all of the cores if I ever need them. Might have to give Cubase or REAPER another look even if they are an eye sore to look at.

Answer 7

I have the same question. AND about poor CPU performance on exports, why do they rely on e-cores instead of p-cores?

Answer 8

Same here……

Nothing Presonus ?

Not even a “ we are aware and looking into it “ ?

Thinking about checking out the competition…….