I know Apple told me that I should be getting the M3 Pro chip as a developer and not an AI researcher or video editor, but damn it, I'm getting the M3 Max to run Xcode and edit 4-track Logic projects and there's nothing they can do about it
@marcoarment Yep, given the Max now has appreciably more CPU grunt, it’d be hard for me not to pick that too. I have a PC for my heavy GPU stuff, but I want the best CPU I can get in a Mac - which is now the Max.
@marcoarment If it helps you to continue make Smart Speed/Voice Boost amazing I give you my permission to use a NASA super computer for that’s what it takes lol
@marcoarment The memory configuration options for the M3 Pro chip are ridiculously inadequate, so you’re pretty much forced to go to the M3 Max anyway. 🤷♂️
@marcoarment this is the first time we have to get the Max to get the highest number of CPU cores though. I think that’s going to make the Max appealing to many people who would have skipped it in the past when it was just more GPU cores.
I literally just discovered a good reason to make a couple more calls to vDSP_biquadm() so I think that qualifies me to get the fast one for my hardcore coding work
Who built a completely over-the-top audio DSP pipeline so people on podcasts would sound a bit better and faster in ways that basically nobody will ever notice? this guy
@marcoarment This guy notices. Everytime I listen to a podcast somewhere else everything sounds “off” until I remember these two features, they are so ingrained into how I listen that not having them makes podcasts feel broken.
@marcoarment Ohhh sorry I was thinking this was something you had going on on the editing side. These days I only listen to podcasts in Logic Pro and if people pay me. 😆
@marcoarment I don't know how people wouldn't notice. Let me tell you, ATP (and all of the rest of my podcasts) sound real fucking weird at 1x, and no Voice Boost honestly just highlights how bad even the pros are at eq'ing their releases.
@marcoarment At least Smart Speed seems to be language dependent. I can’t use it when listening to Finnish language podcasts because it makes certain letter combinations sound odd.
@marcoarment this is legit the reason I pay you my subscription fee. The UI is good, and the app does what it’s supposed to do, but the reason I won’t ever quit you is the audio magic you do.
@marcoarment As a podcast fan with severe hearing loss your audio enhancements make a huge difference to my podcast experience. Thank you for all that hard work, it is appreciated.
@electranyx I measure perceptual loudness and normalize to -16 LUFS when Voice Boost is enabled, so podcasts already compressed to high volumes aren’t noticeably changed except for a slight EQ tweak.
I do a little bit of compression in Voice Boost as well, but not much. The volume normalization with a simple and fast lookahead limiter is doing most of the work.
@marcoarment Thanks for the detail. Sounds smart. It’s my most used app. Any plans to add smart programming to playlists? I want to listen to all my podcasts, oldest to newest, with episodes interleaved so I am not forced to listen to huge blocks when I subscribe to something new. Original release date is less important than having a rolling mix and not falling too far behind in any one thing.
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