Base M4Max for Music Production (Logic Pro) - My Experience

A few months ago I was on here looking for some advice for music production specs and mac computers that would be compatible - got the regular answers and ended up buying the base M4Max Mac Studio and only upgrading the storage to 1tb (and buying a separate 4tb external SSD).

Obviously, every musician will have different use cases and plugins/workflow/track needs but after creating a song on it and getting some opinions from other professionals I'd figure I'd come back and share my knowledge.

I kept being worried when it was coming in the mail that I hadn't gotten enough of an upgrade after fully burning out my M2 Macbook Air and needing something that would work on a semi-pro home studio level. TLDR I have been extremely pleasantly surprised and am unsure what types of music producers would be using the M3Ultra or high (128gb+) levels of ram to its fullest potential.

I'm an admittedly amateur producer actively skill-building to get clients and put more of my songs fully together, so there are obviously people with higher use cases than me, and professional film scorers with Kontact libraries or people needing 500+ tracks running at once will obviously not be helped much by my experience. However, here are the specs of the single I'm talking about for reference:

55 tracks, 60% audio 40% midi

5ish stock plugins on most tracks, 2-3 outside plugins (soothe2, Vallhalla, etc).
Ozone mastering suite

Also was able to use this for some cowriting sessions over internet calls with audio being sent back and forth, no issues recording/playback/editing with others on call and had an easy time recording from their input into my logic pro as well.

All of this going while the CPU is still at 85% idle and the memory pressure is barely visible. It's a night and day upgrade and I feel confident it will take me years to outgrow this.

(obligatory listen to the song here if you want proof I actually made stuff)

At no point did I even question if adding something else to the song would cause the computer to have a hard time, and this is the only computer I have owned that I can say that with.

I also went to a mentorship session with someone much more professional than me in music production for some learning and that studio is running a mac mini with everything working flawlessly. I was told I'm not going to need to upgrade 'in my lifetime.'

Overall, super happy with the sound, no issues with recording from any interfaces or instruments, I think if you're wanting a Mac to make an album on I would absolutely recommend this level and only go up from there if you're *really* burning through hundreds of midi tracks.

*obligatory I am not the worlds greatest/heaviest user for music, but I think I represent a good amount of amateur producers who are wondering if they can get really good professional level stuff done without spending thousands upgrading this mac. I am here to tell you that you can.*

Hope this helps someone browsing the sub who had the same question as me a while ago.