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  1. You can install macOS Sonoma on the same drive a macOS Ventura, so you can keep the old macOS Version and still test/experiment with Sonoma! https://eclecticlight.co/2023/06/07/how-to-run-a-macos-beta-on-apple-silicon/
  2. Launch Logic Pro not via Rosetta, but natively.
  3. That has not been the case since Logic Pro was released in the App Store, probably longer – I do not remember Logic ever had an update mechanism. Launch the App Store.app (Apple Menu => App Store) and check. If it doesn't show up, press Command-R for a refresh. If it still does not show up: you are on macOS 13.5 or later, correct? It will not show up on incompatible versions of macOS.
  4. No, it relies on Ventura features and APIs throughout.
  5. It is not. Only feedback that is rude or support questions are ignored immediately. That said: replies from feedback are rare, there is just too much.
  6. No, it is still not available on Apple Silicon. That said: ARA is not just depending on changes in Logic Pro, but also on Celemony and macOS.
  7. _All_ Audio Units (AUv2 and AUv3) are loaded out of process on all Apple Silicon hardware. AUv3 can do that on Intel as well.
  8. Yes, with some users having hundreds of Audio Units in use at the same time _plus_ Logic Pro _plus_ macOS there is a lot of things that can go wrong. How can anybody guarantee that all these components play along nicely? I often see crashes of old Audio Units, which haven't updated in many years and either have unfixed bugs or are simply incompatible with recent versions of macOS. For that reason does Logic Pro always run Audio Units out-of-process on Apple Silicon. It creates some new issues (which are fixable with updated Audio Units and all known issues have been documented to developers with tips on how to fix them), but it solved the issue that a single Audio Unit can crash Logic Pro. In the past 18 out of the top-20 crashes of Logic Pro were triggered directly by Audio Units. Now the number is _zero_ and Logic Pro can at least warn that an Audio Unit crashed. Still not perfect, but better.
  9. On Apple Silicon all Audio Units are loaded and managed directly by macOS and not by Logic Pro anymore. This improves security and stability of the system as a whole, as it avoids crashes of Logic Pro in case a single Audio Unit goes down. Sadly there is currently a limitation in macOS: all Audio Units are loaded together into one block of memory and if one goes down, the host application (in this case Logic Pro) does not get informed _which_ Audio Unit crashed. I am not aware that this mechanism has any relevant known bugs, but I know of Audio Units having problems running isolated. Another problem for them might be the following: because Audio Unit are loaded directly by macOS, they _have_ to be compatible to the version of macOS that is currently running. I have seen problems in this area.
  10. Yes, it was not a time limited offer for a week
  11. New in MainStage 3.6 Release Notes New features and enhancements - Refined new design. - Expands the Sound Library with 120 Patches, 50 kits and 2800 loops from today's biggest hitmakers including Boys Noize, Mark Lettieri, Mark Ronson, Oak Felder, Soulection, Take A Daytrip, Tom Misch, and TRAKGIRL. - Adds Korean language support. - Optimized performance for M1 Max and M1 Ultra on the new Mac Studio. - A confirmation dialog now appears when deleting patches. - Screen control buttons mapped to the Tempo/Tap Tempo action can now increase/decrease current tempo in 1 BPM increments. - Patch Number and Patch Icon can now be hidden in the Patch List. - The current concert can now be renamed directly in the Patch List. Stability and reliability MainStage no longer quits unexpectedly in these circumstances: - After the audio buffer size has been changed twice without closing the preferences window. - When loading a concert that includes the IK Multimedia Hammond B3X plug-in. - When editing the Transpose setting of a multitimbral channel strip. - When receiving Pitch Wheel or MIDI CC messages via the IAC bus. - When adding a plug-in to a multitimbral channel strip after an existing plug-in window has been opened and closed. - When pasting a screen control from a patch over a screen control in another patch. - When the Edit>Cut command is performed on the Metronome channel strip. - When the audio device is disconnected or reconnected while MainStage is running. Mixer - Dragging a stereo audio file to the mixer now creates a stereo Playback channel strip. - It is now possible to drag in the Layer tab to set note ranges on multitimbral channel strips. - Channel strip busses added to a multi-output channel at the set or concert level are now displayed when changing patches. - Converting an alias of an audio channel to an independent channel now preserves the original input setting. Patches - When dragging multiple patch files to the Patch List, the patches are now placed where they were dropped rather than the end of the list. - The Tempo Slider in the Patch Inspector now reliably updates when adjusted when more than one patch is selected. Undo - Adding a marker in Playback now creates an Undo step. - After pasting over a selected screen control and then performing Undo, the original screen control can now be selected. - Performing Undo after stamping a screen control now restores the control to its original size. - Patches are no longer unexpectedly set to "Skip" after performing Undo after "New Set from Selection" is performed. - Performing Undo after changing the icon the Patch Settings "Attributes" tab now resets the original icon. - Undo now works properly after renaming a Keyboard in the Workspace. Layout - In Layout mode it is now easier to manage overlapping background objects in the Workspace. Loopback - Undo in Loopback now only affects the most recent recording. Playback - The Play/Stop button in Playback now works consistently in cases where an empty playback channel strip has the "Start with Play" action defined. - The last marker in an instance of Playback can now be deleted using the Remove Marker command. Plug-ins - Mapping screen controls to Scripter plug-in parameters works as expected. Auto Sampler - Auto Sampler now names recorded audio files using Mainstage's current setting for Middle C. Control surfaces and MIDI controllers - Mackie Control motorized faders now respond as expected. - Fixes an issue where hardware could receive incorrect values when sending tempo / tap tempo from a screen control. General - Layer Bypass now works with multitimbral MIDI input. - MIDI continuous controller (cc) #12 messages now work with external hardware when using the Vintage Organ. - The Hide MainStage system keyboard command now works in Performance mode. - The On/Off state of the metronome is now maintained when quitting and then reopening MainStage.
  12. You can thank Gerhard for this – he pushed for it. And obviously a lot of people in the team had a personal interest to get their otherwise fine MIDI interfaces working on new Macs. Nobody at Apple was fighting it, everybody thought it was a neat idea to do an update for 20+ year old hardware. The main issue was actually not the engineering part, but actually getting it shipped: building it, code-signing it, putting it into an installer – all that is something _nobody_ at Apple has ever done. It's not like Apple shipped stand-alone MIDI drivers, like ehm _ever_. So, that took a lot of time and patience, because obviously it was not Apples most important project, so it was done during some spare cycles. We are all happy that we could do that and hope that it makes some people with these old devices smile.
  13. You are welcome. BTW: If you are on Intel, I think there is no reason to update from 2.5. The reason for this update is finally to support Apple Silicon, but it should work on any version of macOS 10.15 or later and on any Mac hardware. 32-bit Intel and PowerPC support are gone…
  14. It seems that even 20+ year old hardware gets updates for Apple Silicon: Unitor 8, AMT 8 and MT 4 just received a new driver: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2090
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