There are numerous reasons why you might want to stress test your laptop for music production. You might want to understand the limits of how many tracks or plugins you can run in a session, how long you can push the boundaries of your budget laptop before it overheats, or if you’re on a Windows laptop, test a recent upgrade.
As the most important component for music makers, your CPU has a large effect on a multitude of aspects of music production. Every plugin you use takes a little slice of your CPU power, and the heft of your CPU also affects the ability to run lower buffer sizes in your DAW, enabling lower latency performance, which is crucial in the recording phase.
