MOTU gear is excellent.

You are correct to concentrate on the processing. Recent years versions use the processing far more now. A few years before that, I think, they added support for more cores. These two things dwarf anything else.

Then you should have your RealTracks on an SSD.

If you do one program at a time and don’t run a lot of plugins, 32 GB RAM is plenty.

Graphics are still the lowest priority. I use an Intel CPU with built-in graphics (I don’t do video on my audio production machine. Even with digital audio, graphics are not important to BIAB).


BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Slate VSX, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.