I've been using Waveform for about a year in rosetta mode with VST2 plugins. I've reached the cpu limit of my M1 MacBook Air and decided yesterday to go through the long process of switching out every VST plugin for an AU, and to load the project in native mode.
I'm having tempo/sync issues with things like trance gates, which don't appear to be syncing to anything... possibly running freely, it's hard to tell as the result is a mess. I've tried all the different experimental audio engine modes but none seem to make any difference.
Also, playback in general is very glitchy. All in all, I don't think I'm getting any CPU performance improvement, or rather the DAW is more unstable and even if CPU registers as lower the playback quality is worse.
About 80% of the AUs used are native, still a portion yet to be updated so that would help, I assume.
Incidentally, with Waveform in Rosetta mode, switching VST to AU quickly made the project way too CPU demanding, so I don't know if VST plugins are in general more efficient than their AU counterparts, or if that's a rosetta thing.
I was using version 11.5.9, and decided to update to 11.5.18. The latter seems less stable, as many have said in a dedicated thread, so I may downgrade to .17.
M1 native issues
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- Banned
- 158 posts since 12 Dec, 2021 from Nürburg, Germany
Hey!
I am not often on this site but I notice some delay loading AU which I have installed in Pro 11
I might delete them all and try VST instead to see if it's any quicker. I use MacBook Pro M1 16GB RAM and love it! It is honestly the best laptop I've ever bought for creative work (music production)
I am not often on this site but I notice some delay loading AU which I have installed in Pro 11
I might delete them all and try VST instead to see if it's any quicker. I use MacBook Pro M1 16GB RAM and love it! It is honestly the best laptop I've ever bought for creative work (music production)
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- Banned
- 158 posts since 12 Dec, 2021 from Nürburg, Germany
M1 seems to run VST3 smoother than AU
I am running everything native M1 and not in Rosetta. If you want to try my VST send me a private message - I installed it as VST3 last night and it is really responsive!
The AU version is a little glitchy. I would advise running VST3 and not normal VST. I think the MacBook M1 Air is 100% perfect for music production. There is a guy making crazy beats on youtube with the base model air
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I am running everything native M1 and not in Rosetta. If you want to try my VST send me a private message - I installed it as VST3 last night and it is really responsive!
The AU version is a little glitchy. I would advise running VST3 and not normal VST. I think the MacBook M1 Air is 100% perfect for music production. There is a guy making crazy beats on youtube with the base model air
🎛
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- KVRian
- 524 posts since 16 Mar, 2017
If you are running the host in Rosetta and most of your AU plugins are native, then the OS is likely bridging those plugins in a way that will have a performance impact.
Try switching the DAW to run natively instead of via Rosetta once you are no longer using the VST2 plugins in your projects, as I suspect that may help somewhat - when the plugins match the host.
Try switching the DAW to run natively instead of via Rosetta once you are no longer using the VST2 plugins in your projects, as I suspect that may help somewhat - when the plugins match the host.