Bjørnar Kibsgaard

Electronic music production guy with a huge computer interest. You are welcome to follow me on this journey and see where it ends up.

🎵 Get unreleased music + more perks here → bjokib.com/#/portal (like Patreon, but on my own site)


Bjørnar Kibsgaard

NEW UPLOAD: This M5 MacBook Pro (16GB) Replaced My M3 Ultra (96GB)

Do I need absurd desktop class performance? I replaced my M3 Ultra with 96GB of RAM with a 16GB M5 MacBook Pro.

https://youtu.be/b-mO5Uq9CFM

5 days ago | [YT] | 2

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NEW UPLOAD: Building My New TrueNAS Server & Why I Replaced Unraid

https://youtu.be/BrCoOi6TKiw

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

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NEW UPLOAD: My Mac Studio M3 Ultra Suddenly Got Slow - This Fixed It

My Mac Studio M3 Ultra became sluggish in DaVinci Resolve and Ableton Live despite having TONS of CPU and RAM left. Strange...

https://youtu.be/ZgAN95HgKdU

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

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NEW UPLOAD: Overproduction is one of the easiest ways I lose a good idea. How I fixed a struggling track by simplifying my project with simpler melodic parts. Deleting plugins, removing compression, reducing return channels, and focusing on sound selection instead of effects. With sound examples, but mostly talk!

https://youtu.be/bP9cB1rtwx0

1 month ago | [YT] | 0

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MacBook Pro M5 BASE: I am going to record a video showing real music production projects tomorrow or the day after.

Then it's going back to the store. For a full refund.

I severely underestimated the used market for Apple products where I live. I have had the M3 Ultra Mac Studio out for sale and also the M4 MacBook Air and no one seems to be interested in them. At least not for the price which I think is reasonable but apparently it's not. I have gotten offers but they have been extremely low in my opinion.

I still have a return window for the M5 from the store I bought it from, so I am going to use that and return it.

The M3 Ultra is overkill for me in music production. But I am going to keep it for the time being, along with the M4 MacBook Air as my travel companion.

Honestly my music production have been my main focus lately. Because... it's going pretty well! Maybe I will talk about it in another video. Do you want that?

Anyways... that was today's update. Now I need to sleep.... doctors orders. ;)

3 months ago | [YT] | 22

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NEW UPLOAD: Yes, the base M5 is better than the base M4 in Music Production. About 20% ish percent. There you have it, you don't have to watch the video. ;)

https://youtu.be/D20gRYi9wns

3 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 11

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NEW UPLOAD: BASE M5 Macs Good for Music Production...?

Add 10-15% more awesomeness to the M4. And you get this new M5 CPU from Apple. Even more if you are interested in GPU performance!

https://youtu.be/N9IiRXYi1Fg

3 months ago | [YT] | 2

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NEW UPLOAD: Trying to Avoid Burnout

In this video I try to explain how I am trying to stay away from burning out. I really don't won't to end up there. Do you?

https://youtu.be/N9gh_eWS7Sw

3 months ago | [YT] | 0

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NEW UPLOAD: How I Balance Music Prod, YouTube, a Day Job & Family Life

It's not easy, but in this video I try to explain how I balance a home life with a day-job, kids, wife. And with YouTube and music production. I try to give some actionable tips so you can hopefully get better at planning after watching this video.

https://youtu.be/xWKwZvTpy-Y

4 months ago | [YT] | 0

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NEW UPLOAD: iPhone 17 Pro Max - Outdoors in Norway

The iPhone 17 Pro Max in a Norwegian weekend at sea with some beautiful scenic pictures to test the camera on this thing.

https://youtu.be/OlGU3k908HM

4 months ago | [YT] | 0