what's up guys today I've got something special you see three MacBooks in front
of you right here if you're wondering why I've got these three watch my last
video because there I explained why I'm getting rid of my macbook 12 right here
I've had it for a year it's been great for me but it's time to upgrade and I
want to give you a comparison of the Mac books that you can buy right now in 2017
I've got a MacBook 12-inch here this is a 2015 model I've got a MacBook Pro with
the touch bar super cool and I've got the regular MacBook Pro this is an entry
level model MacBook Pro now I'm making this video for creators in particular
people who are doing music production or video production GarageBand and logic
have some touch bar functionality but if you're using Ableton or something else
they really haven't built anything into those into that software so what can you
use it for and I've got a surprise for you when it comes to that so watch until
the end so what I'm gonna do is run these three through Ableton now I
realize not everyone uses Ableton so I'm gonna run something similar through
GarageBand also I don't just do music production I make these YouTube videos
so I'm also going to test out Final Cut Pro X and I'm going to load in a 4k
video and some of you doubt that you can do 4k on a macbook 12 but you can though
the last few videos I've done I actually edited all of them 4k video in using the
MacBook 12 alright let's get started first up Ableton alright first we're
just gonna open ableton live 9 suite here we go
1 2 3
wow that was interesting all right the MacBook without touch bar was the
first up then the touch bar MacBook and last kind of expected was MacBook
tomorrow all right next we're gonna load a song all three are going to load the
same song here we go one two three first up was the MacBook without touch bar
next we're going to export a song this song is 2 minutes and 43 seconds long
here we go 1 2 3 all right now quick with no touch bar finishes first next up
is with the touch bar and finally well still working macbook 12 all right i've
loaded up one of my songs and in addition to that I've loaded up 10
tracks of accredit plugins on all three laptops and add a double reverb so all
of those 10 tracks so we're gonna see what the CPU usage is like and here we
go we're gonna play them 1 2 3 okay we've got the regular MacBook Pro at
about 14% CPU usage we've got the touch bar MacBook Pro at 14 to 15 percent
usage and very steady on the MacBook 12 we're about at 34 35 winners and now in
GarageBand we're doing an export song to disk here we go
similar results with that touch bar first touch bar second and micro 12 last
all right and for the next test we're going to do the full movie rendering
this is a three minute and 34 second movie in 4k and the race is on all right
MacBook Pro with touch bar is done the winners right here all right back
with pro without touch bar is done all right
the MacBook 12 is finally finished there it is
now that was considerably longer let's talk about the touch bar so GarageBand
and Logic Pro do make use of the touch bar I don't use either of those
applications but if you are Garage Band or Logic Pro you user you'll be happy to
know that you do have some extra extra functions there so I'm super excited
about this I found someone who made a touch bar program for any da W so that's
any DAW that doesn't already have touch bar functionality built in you can use
this now it's limited in what it can do but it gets a really good starting it's
called MIDI touch bar and I'm gonna put a link to it down in the description
below so you can download it yourself it's free now there's a lot that you can
do with this you can do some of the obvious things like control the
transport right
now that's not a huge deal because you can start and stop with a space bar
where it gets interesting though is where you can start controlling
different things now you can assign everything in MIDI so if you're using
Ableton for example you can go to the MIDI mapping screen and assign whatever
you want to faders - buttons - to anything that this touch bar application
does I've actually assigned two of the faders to control frequency and
resonance on this software instrument so as it's playing there's a frequency
change now I'm gonna solo as you can hear and
it's adjusting the frequency and resonance as I'm moving my fingers I
just tried that with this one with this one instrument on the song and now you
couldn't do this before because you just had one mouse pointer to do all that
clicking or dragging across Ableton this is really cool and I was so excited when
I found this I'm still new to using the MacBook Pro with the touch bar I am
gonna be keeping this one and I am NOT going to be keeping the MacBook Pro the
entry-level one this gives me a lot more performance with Final Cut Pro that's
where I was really hurting before so this is really going to improve my life
the touch bar does show a lot of potential I'm gonna be using that a lot
in Final Cut Pro and a little bit in Ableton as well and I'll I'll have
another video showing you more of the features of what you can do with that
touch bar midi controller for Ableton in an upcoming video if you like this video
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production and other cool gadgets coming up so you don't want to miss out on that
Final Cut Pro X we're going to
it's called MIDI touch bar and I'm gonna put a link to it's called MIDI touch bar
and I'm gonna pull it