
Lite Workstation for Ableton Live
Ableton Live needs a lot of processing power, but if you are working with smaller track counts or need to keep your costs down, then AMD’s Ryzenâ„¢ processors offer solid performance without extreme prices.
Overview
Ableton Live needs a lot of processing power, but if you are working with smaller track counts or need to keep your costs down, then AMD’s Ryzenâ„¢ processors offer solid performance without extreme prices. They don’t have as many cores as more workstation-oriented platforms but instead have a combination of high clock speeds on their “performance” cores with a number of additional “efficiency” cores to handle multitasking and background threads. This performance profile also makes this configuration well-suited to other DAWs like Reaper and Adobe Audition.
For connectivity, this small and quiet tower system has numerous USB ports (including a few Type C) on the front and back, 2.5Gb wired networking capability, and WiFi. Its size does limit internal expansion somewhat: there is room for multiple solid-state drives, but if you need an additional PCIe slot for an HDX or other expansion card then moving up to a larger system will be necessary.
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