Starting from the acknowledgement that Overbridge is so bad and unstable that it is not worth to invest any money to use it, and that the lack of clarity about when will we ever come out of beta doesn’t do any help…
… I am wondering what would be the specs of the new MacBook Pro 16 that would make it the best platform to benefit from Overbridge, particularly in heavy lifting situations where I want to use at the same time Digitakt, Digitone and Analog Heath, and possibly multiple instances of their VST’s.
For example, would a DAW + Overbridge combination manage to really take advantage of 8 cores instead of 6? How good is RAM management if I upgraded beyond 16Gb etc.?
FWIW, My 16” 8 core 16GB is no better or worse than my 2015 iMac Quad i7 32GB with a pair of old MK1 Analogs running 8 tracks each in OB, latest Catalina Beta.
Latency, performance, reliability (quite good in fact) are equal between both.
Thank you both and thanks for sharing your positive experience so far.
My original doubt came from remembering reading somewhere - perhaps in Elektron’s own documentation - concerns about, at least, USB throughput. The fact that @AdamJay can run Overbridge on such “old” - though muscular - Mac should remove a lot of doubt that even the lowest specified MacBook Pro 16 inches (that is a 6 core) should do well with some extra RAM.
I’m also glad to see that your Overbridge experience is good. In my case, I never can use it for more than - say - 1 hour without something odd happening, say the output from one of the devices being “garbled”. If it is not a performance issue, I must presume it is a software one.