On the night it blew, I was just working and it shut down and never powered up again. It ran fine for the rest of the day and the following day. I came in from lunch and my system was off which is an odd feeling to walk into. I only had one warning shot before the mini completely blew and that was a shut down the day prior.
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The Big Bang Theory - The Mac Mini Died - June 2020 I like that they’re so compact, more energy-efficient, and I can easily pack up my entire rig in a 6U rack when I need to work on a bigger stage. Obviously, the DSP scenario is the same with the mini as it was with the Trash Can, but with most of my EQs and stuff loaded on the Native CPU, things run much smoother and snappier then they did with the Trash Can. This was mainly because all of the HDX3 DSP was taken up by mixers, so I just switched my DSP plugins over to Native and that made things run smoothly. This unit’s session was pushing the limits of my previous 8-core trashcan to the point where I had to optimize plugin usage. CPU measurement hovered around 15% while recording/punching. The RMU system laughed at all of it, processing it with ease while simultaneously sending video to my projector (via VideoSlave into a Blackmagic 4K card).
I’m sending 3 (DME) 7.1.2 beds and 60 objects over the Dante network of the MTRX to the RMU. atmos printmaster on my RMU running from a monster session on my main DAW (600+ optimized tracks DX/MX/FX/StemRec which was originally built up on my 8-core trashcan).
I’m getting the performance that can easily handle pretty-much anything I throw at it with tons of CPU headroom on both systems.
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One for my main Pro Tools DAW (w/HDX3 in a Sonnet Chassis)Īnother with the exact same specs as my RMU system (housed in a Sonnet xMacMini chassis with a Focusrite Rednet 128ch Dante PCIe card). I’m using two of the latest 6-core i7 minis (64GB/1TB/10GbE)
He has been kind enough to share his story with the community… over to you Jamey…. Originally an owner of 8 core Mac Pro 6.1 Trash Can, Jamey decided to test the new Mac mini as a replacement. LA studio owner and post mixer, Jamey Scott of Dramatic Post, decided to put it to the test.