MacOS Sonoma

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Pro Tools 2023.9 on macOS Sonoma 14.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5lNEgrHqNs

[thanos4]

I also experience GUI sluggishness..
Most GUI plugins are working fine,but i found BC's Patchwork to make the whole app unresponsive...even if Patchwork is empty (not loaded any VST or AU)
Anyone else?

[mattrixx]

Originally Posted by TLK Tom

Observations:

Plugin search is now broken, you have to click 'search' instead of just typing. Really annoying for workflow, also all custom shortcuts assigned from the keyboard pane in system prefs no longer work unless the menu they are accessing is already dropped down. Not sure if the two are related?

Plugin search was broken on 2023.9 before upgrading to Sonoma.

[mattrixx]

Originally Posted by Fishbone

Installed Sonoma update in a separate SSD in which I've a copy of my Ventura working system.

Launched a large session with a lot of 3 party plugins to test things out, and although it played fine with no audio related problems, the graphic performance was terrible, with meters becoming sluggish as hell as well as plugin interfaces.

It seems this problem arises with large sessions with a lot of plugins, since I've tested it with a small session and wasn't that bad, although I could tell there was a worst graphic performance comparing to the same session running in my Ventura System.

Both systems were running the latest PT 2023.9 in Apple Silicon mode.

I have none of these issues. Running a large 280 track ATMOS session with hundreds of plugins and 4k video, the DOLBY v5 renderer into SPHERE 7.1.4 with Sonarworks on the output.. It's all buttery smooth.

[BScout]

Originally Posted by mattrixx

Plugin search was broken on 2023.9 before upgrading to Sonoma.

Plugin search is working just fine here on 2023.9 (on Ventura 13.6)

[mattrixx]

Mmm, interesting. That was broken on both my systems, even with 13.6.

[Brettster]

Originally Posted by mattrixx

I have none of these issues. Running a large 280 track ATMOS session with hundreds of plugins and 4k video, the DOLBY v5 renderer into SPHERE 7.1.4 with Sonarworks on the output.. It's all buttery smooth.

what kind of godly system do you have to be able to do this. i have a m1 mac mini and it struggles with basic podcasts sometimes.

[mattrixx]

It's an M1 MacUltra with 64GB Ram and 2TB storage, so not the top tier.
I had all sorts of Core Audio problems under BigSur snd then Ventura however.

[Fishbone]

I'm also running a MacMini M1 with 16gb RAM, but never had this kind of graphic sluggishness in previous versions of MacOS.

Clearly there's a lack of optimization in Pro Tools with Sonoma that's excessively taxing the GPU in first generation M1 processors, which is not felt in your system that have GPU power to spare.

[Darryl Ramm]

Sonoma running nicely on my 2019 16" MacBook Pro so far. Have not tested with my main RME interfaces yet (I'm not where they are).

One annoying thing with Sonoma is the click on desktop hides window behavior. Here is how to fix that:

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/26/disab...p-macos-sonoma

A macOS UX gripe from past versions as well is hot corners, having the notepad pop up every time I overshoot the trash can with the mouse sucks. That gets turned off.

I did have a problem where macOS Settings went out to lunch and would not show the settings windows, had to reboot the mac to fix that.

Hugs to Toontrack for being one of the few DAW ecosystem vendors who can make a plugin manager that like actually just works.

Edit: oh and Softube Central plugin manager works on Sonoma, never would install the iLok components properly on Ventura. The shock of too many things working, I'll have to have a lay down.