macOS Monterey 12.3 officially supported!

[DerrickC]

Hello! Not sure if I have missed this discussion, but I just noticed that on March 17, Monterey 12.3 is now officially supported on PT 2021.12, requiring only 2022.2 Avid plugin update. (See attached compatibility chart.) Has anyone tried this combination? Is it stable? I wish to update to Monterey 12.3 to take care of universal control. Thanks!

[paul_g]

Originally Posted by DerrickC

Hello! Not sure if I have missed this discussion, but I just noticed that on March 17, Monterey 12.3 is now officially supported on PT 2021.12, requiring only 2022.2 Avid plugin update. (See attached compatibility chart.) Has anyone tried this combination? Is it stable? I wish to update to Monterey 12.3 to take care of universal control. Thanks!

Yes, but before you just upgrade, double check all your drivers for your 3rd party interfaces, etc, and 3rd plug-in's.

For example, UAD is not Monterey compatible yet.

[persen]

Monterey 12.3 working fine here with UAD
Pro Tools 2021.12

[Eric Lambert]

My UA OX is working fine under Monterey.

And in fact almost everything works fine, with the exception of a couple of Exponential Audio plugins (Excalibur, R4 & Nimbus), the older iterations of SSL Duende plugins (pre-V2 -- the ones that do not have "Native" in their title), and a couple of AIR instruments (Loom 1, Structure 2 and Transfuser 2). Everything else seems to be working.

[JamesG602]

Just loaded up a new Mac Studio Ultra, Monterey 12.3, with protools HDX, seems to be working well so far in my tests!

[audiogamble]

Originally Posted by Eric Lambert

My UA OX is working fine under Monterey.

And in fact almost everything works fine, with the exception of a couple of Exponential Audio plugins (Excalibur, R4 & Nimbus), the older iterations of SSL Duende plugins (pre-V2 -- the ones that do not have "Native" in their title), and a couple of AIR instruments (Loom 1, Structure 2 and Transfuser 2). Everything else seems to be working.

Do you have Exponential Symphony and Stratus? Do those work?

[epmi]

Yes, but... PT is still not "Native", and i believe it shows in certain processes (exporting video etc.)

in Activity Monitor, Pro Tools 2021.12 still shows up as an Intel app.

[Eric Lambert]

Originally Posted by audiogamble

Do you have Exponential Symphony and Stratus? Do those work?

I don't have those but I do have Phoenix and R2 and both load properly.

[glasswing]

Originally Posted by JamesG602

Just loaded up a new Mac Studio Ultra, Monterey 12.3, with protools HDX, seems to be working well so far in my tests!

I get mine mid April - 128 RAM/2TB HD. Maybe you should start a new discussion and keep us all up to date. I think there are a LOT of soon to be Mac Studio owners here. How much RAM are you using? I'm curious about your setup. Thanks!!!

[Obsidian Dragon]

Originally Posted by epmi

Yes, but... PT is still not "Native", and i believe it shows in certain processes (exporting video etc.)

in Activity Monitor, Pro Tools 2021.12 still shows up as an Intel app.

Yes. There are no claims that it is native yet. Protools 2022.12 is the same application that was available. It just got tested and certified as "compatible" to run in Monterey, but it is still Intel code running under Rosetta2. The good news is that it seems to be running pretty well from most reports with a few plugins still causing issues. We need to give credit to the developers of Rosetta2. At some point we are all looking forward to a native application but that takes time to rewrite everything for a different processor and architecture.