I don't know what those 'restrictions' are on macOS compared to Windows, I'm not a developer and I do not have the professional coding / inside / knowledge on how things work at the OS level etc.

I can understand though if a developer relies on a third party framework, such as the QT framework, I think Steinberg uses QT, and that frame work has not been shown much love for best practices / optimisations at the core level then, I suppose, any app using that particular framework would suffer etc. Again this is only my own interpretation, because I do not have the knowledge.

What I do find very strange is how graphics performance can be wildly different between apps as well. eg Logic Pro X is lightening fast in this respect.

My 2 cents, (and not really knowing what I'm talking about!)

Best
Scott

grahamhunter wroteAMD isn't an option for me right now as I use UAD hardware over Thunderbolt 3.

Are there specifically issues with AMD and Thunderbolt+UAD? A few AMD boards (Asrock) support thunderbolt via an add-in card, and I just ordered a system with the Asrock Creator motherboard which has it built right into the motherboard.

Funkybot wroteAre there specifically issues with AMD and Thunderbolt+UAD? A few AMD boards (Asrock) support thunderbolt via an add-in card, and I just ordered a system with the Asrock Creator motherboard which has it built right into the motherboard.

Thunderbolt is an Intel standard and I'm sure you can imagine that neither side wants to really support the other here. UAD has always been very careful to say that we should only choose systems with official Thunderbolt support:

https://thunderbolttechnology.net/products

There were a lot of people having issues early on with Windows and TB2, it seems to be less of a concern with TB3.

Edit: here is the official word from UAD:

https://help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articl ... patibility

Just read this
http://www.scanproaudio.info/2020/02/27 ... -overview/

I did read that, and it doesn't answer the question of how Studio One scales out across cores (Reaper does to a point though, apparently). It also doesn't answer the question about Xeon performance.

Thanks for sharing though, it was an interesting read.

This user was running a dual xeon. I had some PM dialog with him in 2016 as i was interested IN XEON. He hasnt been online here for a year. You might PM Him to see if he is still around and using his xeon PC.
Hope its ok to throw out a user name.
Name was
soupiraille.

grahamhunter wroteHow would you quantify "do just fine"? Why do you believe that a server motherboard would not do well for studio usage? Do you really think that a modern i5 would outperform an i7 from just a few generations before? (edit: those are rhetorical questions, you don't need to answer them)

Although I appreciate you taking the time to respond I do believe that you're just guessing here

Also note that Xeons are readily available in workstation-class computers.

I bet that a i3 12100 can out perform a i9 9900 in single thread processing with everyone should know audio uses single thread processing, , tell me I'm guessing with points that discredits mine