Thank you for your response.
I see that I made a mistake when I previously mentioned my CPU—I might have confused the number of cores or GHz, but I never specified the year. That being said, I do acknowledge that my system is starting to feel limited in terms of CPU performance.
In fact, I stopped updating my 2011 iMac at Cubase 10.5 (with the USB dongle) because it simply couldn’t handle more. And now, once again, I notice that every two or three Cubase updates, I basically need a new computer.
This has been going on for years—I’ve already gone through six or seven Macs since I started making music. My first setup was an Atari, which I kept until 1995, then I moved on to those old PowerPC Macs running MacOS 7, 8, 9, and everything that followed. It’s been an endless cycle of upgrades, and maybe that’s just the nature of digital music production.
That being said, I will check the minimum requirements for other DAWs as well, because having options is important. I’m not Hans Zimmer, after all.
Again, English is not my native language, so I apologize if my “please” and “thank you” got lost in translation. It was never my intention to sound cold or arrogant.
Best regards and thanks anyway
P.S.: I’m old school. I work at 44.1 kHz and 24 bits. I come from the analog world. My audio interface is a MOTU M4, and the buffer is set to 2048. It can’t handle more. Although it doesn’t really matter if I work with the iMac’s built-in audio, with a similar buffer—it behaves the same way. I’m just limited by the processor…
I’ll think about buying a M4, but… we’ll see.