Hywel
Never knowingly underscored...
Hi folks, thanks for your advice.
I have purchased a late 2019 MacBook Pro 16” which I intend to use for music and photography. I will be using it with a desktop 4k Thunderbolt 3 monitor which should be capable of also charging the laptop (just about).
Like most people I have an assortment of legacy peripherals which I have listed below
USB things include
3 x USB3 docks with SSDs/HDs
2 x USB3 hubs which I currently use for attaching a Wacom tablet, cameras, iPhones, iPads, Steinberg eLicenser, NI Maschine Jam
Computer Keyboard
Mouse
NI Komplete Kontrol S88
Audient iD4
I also have a Thunderbolt 2 hard disc which is used for photo storage and also has it’s own dedicated T2 port in my current setup though being a spinning HD using a T2 connection for this is perhaps overkill. It does have a USB 3 option to connect.
On my current setup (a Mac Mini) most of the above are daisy chained in no particular organised way and probably through ignorance rather than knowledge, I have dedicated a single USB port to each of 1. NI Komplete Kontrol S88 and 2. Audient iD4 audio I/O device. I have accepted any audio and idiosyncratic glitches I get currently as a factor of either computer system inadequacies or data bottlenecks in the peripheral chain.
So, eventually to MY QUESTION…
The MacPro has 4 physical Thunderbolt 3 ports - IF I dedicate one port to the external 4K monitor, what is the best solution and distribution of the peripherals across the remaining 3 Thunderbolt ports so as to optimise audio, sample access, MIDI I/O information etc OR should everything be fast enough that I won’t need to worry about it? By the way, I realise that I will need a handful of various adapters.
I have purchased a late 2019 MacBook Pro 16” which I intend to use for music and photography. I will be using it with a desktop 4k Thunderbolt 3 monitor which should be capable of also charging the laptop (just about).
Like most people I have an assortment of legacy peripherals which I have listed below
USB things include
3 x USB3 docks with SSDs/HDs
2 x USB3 hubs which I currently use for attaching a Wacom tablet, cameras, iPhones, iPads, Steinberg eLicenser, NI Maschine Jam
Computer Keyboard
Mouse
NI Komplete Kontrol S88
Audient iD4
I also have a Thunderbolt 2 hard disc which is used for photo storage and also has it’s own dedicated T2 port in my current setup though being a spinning HD using a T2 connection for this is perhaps overkill. It does have a USB 3 option to connect.
On my current setup (a Mac Mini) most of the above are daisy chained in no particular organised way and probably through ignorance rather than knowledge, I have dedicated a single USB port to each of 1. NI Komplete Kontrol S88 and 2. Audient iD4 audio I/O device. I have accepted any audio and idiosyncratic glitches I get currently as a factor of either computer system inadequacies or data bottlenecks in the peripheral chain.
So, eventually to MY QUESTION…
The MacPro has 4 physical Thunderbolt 3 ports - IF I dedicate one port to the external 4K monitor, what is the best solution and distribution of the peripherals across the remaining 3 Thunderbolt ports so as to optimise audio, sample access, MIDI I/O information etc OR should everything be fast enough that I won’t need to worry about it? By the way, I realise that I will need a handful of various adapters.