Mac OS Ventura - compatibility status

[Jac459]

I just took another look at the new features of Ventura and, apart from the security functions, there is nothing I need to make music. I will leave everything as it is and wait for macOS 14

Security features are not the one I would arbitrate....
If this computer is for studio only, unplugged from Internet it is cool.
If it is connected to Internet , you book your holidays on it, pay delivery, use social media, I would take security patch as an absolute priority....

[Jac459]

good call.
I waited from Mojave to Monterey and have had so few problems during that time.
If i didn't have like 500 plugins i might be a bit more carefree.
but, there's really no point.

Security patches are like seatbelts...

You don't need them.... until you f....g need them.

Your call....

[Bombadil]

Monterey still gets regular security patches, as did Big Sur after the end of its run. No need to jump to the latest and greatest.
Best advice I can give is to wait until Ventura's successor is coming out, and move to Ventura then.
Apple releasing new OSes every year is a PITA.

[sqigls]

good call.
I waited from Mojave to Monterey and have had so few problems during that time.
If i didn't have like 500 plugins i might be a bit more carefree.
but, there's really no point.

Security patches are like seatbelts...

You don't need them.... until you f....g need them.

Your call....

just use windows fearmonger

[jancivil]

VE Pro does not run at all well on Ventura under Rosetta 2 to tell the truth. I started an Absynth-centric project and with my chosen patch for the thing it wouldn't play the first <single> sustained note. Now, NI sez Absynth no work on silicon Mac but it runs well unburdened by that connection. I wouldn't choose to update to it for the sake of updating. I reckon it's a flawed OS frankly. Lot of memory leaks reported all over.

[Jac459]

VE Pro does not run at all well on Ventura under Rosetta 2 to tell the truth. I started an Absynth-centric project and with my chosen patch for the thing it wouldn't play the first <single> sustained note. Now, NI sez Absynth no work on silicon Mac but it runs well unburdened by that connection. I wouldn't choose to update to it for the sake of updating. I reckon it's a flawed OS frankly. Lot of memory leaks reported all over.

Can you give some links about memory leaks? I didn't heard about them.

[jancivil]

Nah, didn't bookmark anything. Just google it, there'll be hits. I've seen that on the regular haunts, Gearspace, Steinberg dot net, et al. Here, the memory pressure readout in Activity Monitor goes to yellow too quickly with nothing running but my DAW stuff. Then, the general scuttlebutt is kind of 'you'll be mostly fine with Rosetta 2' but not in my use case. I had two days of not being able to do a thing and finally had to adapt.

I'm going to have a sea change and plug things that are silicon-ready directly into Cubase 12 and run it native and quit VE Pro. Which is a terrible state of things, but VSL is focused majorly on Synchron Player and MIR Pro 3D which run natively and fast af, and no news on VE Pro. So the whole <things run better because run in the separate process> is becoming history.

[jancivil]

MIR Pro 3D runs great under Rosetta 2; it runs with its own server so it's that <separate process for a plugin> thing like VE Pro was. or is, but it isn't so compatible with mac silicon evidently.

[BertKoor]

I just took another look at the new features of Ventura and, apart from the security functions, there is nothing I need to make music.

The security issues with MacOs 12.x were severe enough for my employer to force an immediate upgrade to v13. They don't do that very often.

[jancivil]

back to news on compatibility: BFD3 installed and authorized perfectly smoothly but it's going to be Rosetta 2 until further notice. I ran on similar hardware under Monterey and it was OK .