Thank you Miklos, for your review. The team is really happy it has exceeded your expectations. Thank you as well, Roy!
But why anybody would be "afraid to give feedback" to a file might have to do with the fact that it is not a competition.
Most users here are to make music and make a living with that. I know Miklos has tons of other things to do, and as long
as our workstation is doing its job, he has no need to waste his time with benchmarking.
Regarding the benchmarking: other than synthetic tests, it is hard and time intensive to do honest comparable benchmarking, especially between different operating systems.
There are lots of parameters to set, the host has to be the same with the same settings, and the plugins of course as
well.
Probably the most fair benchmark would be using ProTools with VEPro on the same system, since it is the only cross-
platform DAW which shows similar performance on Mac and PC, but only if the buffer is not lower than 256 samples, which is
too high for most composers in the writing stage.
Regarding the fastest system: the dual E5-2687W is currently the fastest "normal" system which is available for composers,
and frankly, it is way ahead of the dual X5670 which is in the MacPro 12 core 2010 (or even the X5690 for that matter) because
those chips are 2 generations newer - and Intel made a huge performance jump with it.
Also, you might have heard of
www.dawbench.com, which shows that OSX does usually not perform better. In fact, on the exact same MacPro, every cross-platform application shows (much) better low latency results on Windows than on Mac. The only situation where an application runs better on Mac is Pro Tools, as long as the buffer is set to 256 samples or higher.
But that is not the point. OSX and Apple are very popular, a lot of things are working really well, lots of audio people are enjoying it for lots of years. Because of this I am not trying to push people into one direction. However, when it comes to low latency performance, Apple is far behind at this moment.