Tracking Apple Silicon Native Hosts, Plugins, Effects

[teilo]

All fast plugins by Focusrite with m1 support should be released next week according to an email that I sent today. And all plugins from vengeance will be updated for M1 and without eLicenser (finally) but they do not have any eta for now. So keep an eye on

Hoping Control Center is part of the Focusrite update.

[AmbientCowboy]

Acon DIgitial's Acoustica 7.3 both the Standard and Premium editions have been Mac Silicon native for sometime. Much faster than my Izotope RX9 routines.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Acon DIgitial's Acoustica 7.3 both the Standard and Premium editions have been Mac Silicon native for sometime. Much faster than my Izotope RX9 routines.

Acoustica's been on the list for months.

https://asaudio.tech/developer/8

[dayjob]

renoise and redux now native

https://www.renoise.com

[sqigls]

Just picked up UVI Relayer. I didn't realise that there's no VST3.
Does anyone know if UVI will be releasing any VST3 of this plugin?
flipping Sheeamturd Cubase 12 no native VST2 GRRRRRRRRR

[parkerboi]

on this page https://asaudio.tech/developer/9, it is stated that some Acustica products such as LEMON and CRIMSON are native but in fact, they are not.

LEMON VST2/3 doesn't show in Live 11.1 and CRIMSON asks for registration when it's been already done.
I can only talk about these plugins since I own them.


Am I the only one that find Acustica native not really optimized for M1 ?

I'm going to need more for this, as Acustica seldom lists AS support in the change notes, but I have already verified a number of the plugins that show "Arm Architecture: Silicon" and "Rosetta: No" on their support spreadcheet, even though those plugins do not explicitly list AS support in the change notes.

Are you installing Lemon 1.5? That one is much newer, and is a separate install.

Other than that, please reach out to Acustica support and report back.

Didn't know that they released these new versions.
I just downloaded them and they are native.

I don't why they rebranded them as 1.5 and created separate installers without updating their website or sending an email.

With that, all my Acustica plugins are native but the performance doesn't seem to be game changing though.

[teilo]

With that, all my Acustica plugins are native but the performance doesn't seem to be game changing though.

Acustica plugins are all IR-based, and a more intense version of IR than most other devs. This means they are not just relying upon compute, but on a decent amount of memory bandwidth. That's going to throttle any gains you get from the CPU itself, and bring it closer to the Rosetta equivalent.

[bardaxx]

I've reached mixed in key by mail and they said that the next version of Capitan Plugins bundle will be M1 Native.

[Plaster]

I would think Melodyne, for example, would be ready to go on day 1.

On the Synchro Arts M1 page, they stated this
"All ARA plug-ins will cause Logic to crash when running in native Apple Silicon mode.
Apple will be rectifying this issue in future versions of macOS and Logic Pro.
Currently you need to run Logic in Rosetta mode."

Maybe Celemony is waiting for Apple to fix the ARA problems before they release a native update. Just speculating. It would be nice to have ARA back in Logic tho

[jamcat]

I would think Melodyne, for example, would be ready to go on day 1.

On the Synchro Arts M1 page, they stated this
"All ARA plug-ins will cause Logic to crash when running in native Apple Silicon mode.
Apple will be rectifying this issue in future versions of macOS and Logic Pro.
Currently you need to run Logic in Rosetta mode."

Maybe Celemony is waiting for Apple to fix the ARA problems before they release a native update. Just speculating. It would be nice to have ARA back in Logic tho

Thanks. That’s useful info. So the wait to actually use our expensive M1s continues as yet another obstacle is added to the list.

[kidslow]

So the wait to actually use our expensive M1s continues as yet another obstacle is added to the list.

And will Apple backport the fix to Big Sur or are they going to force everyone to upgrade to Monterey to get ARA support?

[jamcat]

So the wait to actually use our expensive M1s continues as yet another obstacle is added to the list.

And will Apple backport the fix to Big Sur or are they going to force everyone to upgrade to Monterey to get ARA support?

Apple aren't still developing Big Sur. When you update Big Sur, it updates you to Monterey. Only the Mac minis and Airs would have Big Sur installed anyways. I would think a person would want to be on Monterey if they're running an M1 CPU, since it's going to continue to improve the M1 experience. It's not like it costs you anything to upgrade.

[kidslow]

Apple tends to backport to one previous release, and why would I want all the hassles of M1 AND all the hassles of Monterey? No way Jose.

[FapFilter]

Not sure, as my MBA I bought just recently already came with 12.1, but doesn't the updater give you a second option to just update your current full version to it's next .x releases in case updates for that are available, with no forced upgrade to the newer full version, unless specifically selected by the user?
And yes, I think Apple still release(d) Big Sur security updates after Monterey

[sqigls]

what hassles with Monterey?
no Exponential Audio plugins?