Tracking Apple Silicon Native Hosts, Plugins, Effects

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Also installation of all my Unfiltered Audio plug-ins was tricky as no licenses could be activated although I had de-authorized most former computers in my Plugin Alliance account. This seems to be a known issue and here is the solve from the PA FAQ pages (one has to manually delete a file):

https://support.plugin-alliance.com/hc/ ... y-licenses

The most terrible experience was the installation of the UAD drivers for my travel audio interface Arrow (now named Apollo Solo), not only does one have to install 9 GB worth of plugins (which I never use) with the drivers but then one has to restart the Mac in recovery mode (which failed several times) and execute various steps to overcome the Apple security settings, jeez what a drag.

[dayjob]

) with the drivers but then one has to restart the Mac in recovery mode (which failed several times) and execute various steps to overcome the Apple security settings, jeez what a drag.

had to do the same w/RME a few years back but they've since developed a driver package that doesn't require those steps. I suspect UAD will sort that out eventually too. a handful of hardware devices required that. driver install at kernel level. MacOS/Apple silicon growing pains

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Yeah, installing the RME drivers was a breeze.

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Amazing, even the ancient Iris 1 installer from 2013 worked fine, the GUI looks shit but the sounds are all there!

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Although not officially supported on the iZotope website, these apps + plugins work fine on Sonoma 14.5 on a MacBook Pro Max (M3).
*Iris 1+2
*Stutter Edit 1+2
*RX8 Advanced
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I spoke to soon, Iris 2 only runs in demo mode and can't be authorised so it'll probably stop working in 10 days from now and I'll de-install it.

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Good news - at least for me - 2C Audio Breeze 2.5 (installer from 2019) and Kaleidoscope 1.1 (installer from 2016) install and function fine on Sonoma 14.5 - MacBook Pro Max (M3). Will install Precedence 1.5 now.

[aMUSEd]

Although not officially supported on the iZotope website, these apps + plugins work fine on Sonoma 14.5 on a MacBook Pro Max (M3).
*Iris 1+2
*Stutter Edit 1+2
*RX8 Advanced
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I spoke to soon, Iris 2 only runs in demo mode and can't be authorised so it'll probably stop working in 10 days from now and I'll de-install it.

I have it on my iLok - is that method not available anymore either?

[aMUSEd]

Good news - at least for me - 2C Audio Breeze 2.5 (installer from 2019) and Kaleidoscope 1.1 (installer from 2016) install and function fine on Sonoma 14.5 - MacBook Pro Max (M3). Will install Precedence 1.5 now.

I have them all working on Sonoma - with the caveat of VST2 only and under Rosetta (plus Kaleidoscope and the older reverbs have that file system ordering bug that was never fixed)

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Although not officially supported on the iZotope website, these apps + plugins work fine on Sonoma 14.5 on a MacBook Pro Max (M3).
*Iris 1+2
*Stutter Edit 1+2
*RX8 Advanced
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I spoke to soon, Iris 2 only runs in demo mode and can't be authorised so it'll probably stop working in 10 days from now and I'll de-install it.

I have it on my iLok - is that method not available anymore either?

I wish I had it on my iLok but the license transfer is not working in my iZotope account, I think they've just abandoned it altogether. All other iZotope serial numbers for legacy products still work, even Stutter Edit 1 and Iris 1.

[Sampleconstruct]

I got my new M3 Max Macbook Pro today and none of the GRM plugins validate in Logic, the standalone apps work just fine.

Weird. Did you try a rescan of them in plug in manager? They work fine here on M1. I think I had to restart or log out then back in though

I tried manually validating in the Plugin Manager to no avail, the only plugin validating is the Equalizer - this is after a clean install using the Bundle Installer which contains all GRM apps.

and a restart didn't help? send them an email. before the current version there was a problem with their plug ins installing as intel/x86 instead of apple silicon but the latest version, which i think is 3.12, fixed that problem for me. though it took them 6 months to do it.

Several restarts didn't help, it says version 3.11.1 installed and on their website that's all there is to download. I'll ask them...

After updating to OS Sonoma 14.5 all GRM plugins validated fine, phew...

After more intensive testing it shows that all GRM plugins are unstable on my M3 Macbook Pro in Logic 11.01 on Sonoma 14.5 and frequently force Logic to reboot so I'll remove them from my live setup which is a shame but there are is always an alternative.

[discoDSP]

ThrillMe 3 multi-band compressor and EQ10 are not in the database. Both are Universal Binary and available for purchase through our FX Bundle at https://www.discodsp.com/fx

[dayjob]

ThrillMe 3 multi-band compressor and EQ10 are not in the database. Both are Universal Binary and available for purchase through our FX Bundle at https://www.discodsp.com/fx

I don’t think the database is being updated anymore. At this point it seems most things are apple silicon except for a few things and of course EOL things that will never be updated

[discoDSP]

ThrillMe 3 multi-band compressor and EQ10 are not in the database. Both are Universal Binary and available for purchase through our FX Bundle at https://www.discodsp.com/fx

I don’t think the database is being updated anymore. At this point it seems most things are apple silicon except for a few things and of course EOL things that will never be updated

It’s unfortunate that the database is no longer updated, leading to many products going unrecognized.

[dayjob]

ThrillMe 3 multi-band compressor and EQ10 are not in the database. Both are Universal Binary and available for purchase through our FX Bundle at https://www.discodsp.com/fx

I don’t think the database is being updated anymore. At this point it seems most things are apple silicon except for a few things and of course EOL things that will never be updated

It’s unfortunate that the database is no longer updated, leading to many products going unrecognized.

one person was doing it. i think it just became too much time to spend on it for him. most things are in there though and by now, apple silicon native seems to be less an issue as most things have been updated except for a select few. it'd probably be easier to list the things that aren't apple silicon native i don't imagine the site will stay up forever but have no way of knowing what his plan is. perhaps he'll chime in here at some point.

best thing you can is make it clear on your site that your products are apple silicon native.

[jamcat]

Pretty much everything is Apple Silicon now, and anything that isn’t is almost certainly abandonware.