Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

Dave Derr From Empirical Labs, makers of Distressor, Arousor etc, just posted this on Gearspace:
https://gearspace.com/board/product-...-new-post.html

A merry Christmas, it will be, indeed.

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

"Public Beta"

What a cop out after waiting all this time. Not sure why I didn't expect this to be honest.

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

Honestly I’m just glad they’re being up front about it being a beta. Unlike with ARA, which is nowhere close to ready for prime time.

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

It means there is something in macOS that they still cannot support on native code. After all Ventura is still a dot-zero release.

You are good to go if you want to test how far you can go until you face a random error, but apple silicon support seems to be next year (and ventura) thing. Which is good.

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

You have absolutely no factual basis to make this statement and it is misleading the general public.

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

At least we'll be able to get a sense of performance gains.

C

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

If I had, I would neither confirm nor deny it.

What is a fact is that I was beta testing for DigiDesign during the previous PPC --> Intel transition.

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

Good to see Avid setting expectations and helping avoid user pain. (Oops the same company that let users lose work with awfully flakey Pro Tools First/cloud…).

You would be a bit of a nutter if you took the first native port and treated it like anything other than a beta. The problem here as always with stability is likely to be plugins. Assuming you even have enough native plugins to run/test with. You then get to QA that combination together. Interesting times.

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

Avid can do no right. If they don't release a public beta in December they're dragging their feet. If they do, regardless of how successful that release is, they're not doing enough. This forum would benefit from an ignore feature.

Personally, I'm excited to see this. Though I wonder how they will handle the presence of so many non-Native plugins. Will the plugins run in a shell which allows Native and non-Native to coexist? Will the presence of any non-Native plugins force us to run PT under Rosetta?

It will take a very long time for *all* of my plugins to make the Native update so I hope they've worked this out somehow.

Re: Pro Tools M1 support - dec 27th (beta)
 

I'm most curious to know about the apples-to-apples comparisons. PT, Native, with a group of Native plugins, vs. PT under Rosetta with those same plugins. As a test, only. I can't see using this for production for a while. It's a big transition.