The general advice is to only connect to networks where you know or at least trust all the other participants in the LAN and staying off the Internet in general during your performance. Therefore, besides freeing computer resources you’ll minimizing the potential for unwelcome surprises.

However, if someone is a “bad citizen” in your network, they might cause unexpected load on your computer (using AirDrop, for instance). Also in a purely local network, things like Bonjour/SMB/mDNS are typically still active (and that’s a good thing). Tip: you can quickly disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth using the Control Center, which has been available since macOS Big Sur.Īnother reason to disable network connections is that your computer’s behavior gets more deterministic: if it is connected to the Internet, all sorts of syncing/updating might happen (read below how to better manage these concerns).

Similarly, to turn off Bluetooth, open System Preferences, click on Bluetooth and then click on the Turn Bluetooth Off button: To turn off Wi-Fi, click on the Apple menu and then on System Preferences… Click on Network and then click on the Turn Wi-Fi Off button: Note: even if you don’t turn off the Wi-Fi, the real-time audio thread will run at higher priority than most (if not all) other threads so there may not be as much of an impact as one would think.

We typically recommend that you to turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections if you don’t need them for your live performance to free up computer resources. Let’s get started! Disable unnecessary hardware devices

We have compiled a list of tips to help you get the best experience out of your Mac for your live performance.Īll tips and screenshots were made using macOS Monterey 12.1, the latest version of macOS available at the time of writing: In this article you will learn how to optimize your Apple Macintosh computer for a gig.Īpple computers running macOS have great support for real-time audio and MIDI and typically do not require much optimization – however you may still want to make sure that your performance is neither impacted nor interrupted by other running processes.

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