Hi all. I finally received my M1 Ultra with 128gb Ram and 8TB drive and had a little time to start working on projects with it. I use both Cubase and Logic and see I'll be migrating back to LP full time. This replaces a Mac Pro 6,1 12 core with 64GB.
The Mac Studio is excellent as far as speed goes and loading samples from the internal drive is much faster than off the external SSD's allowing projects to play in the fraction of the time it took to load it all from the SSDs. The transfer took some time and of course so many plugins needed to be re-authorized and remapped to the new location.
I was writing a lot of music in Cubase over the last year with some occasional Logic use but now that I'm on Apple Silicon I'm dealing with the mess that is plugin compatibility and also driver compatibility (in Cubase).
Some examples: Cubase in Rossata mode: You get most things back, but some of Spitfire's plugins don't work and need to be run in Native, but if you do run Native, then you lose tons of plugins because even though many have gone to M1, they still don't have a VST3 version. Plus, running Cubase in Rosetta makes my Avid S1 useless as it only communicates with Cubase in native mode. I'd have to run Avid in Rosseta first. It's a bit of a PITA.
Logic, on the other hand, handles this a lot more elegantly as it apparently runs a hybrid mode where if a plugin needs Rosseta, it handles that in real-time and doesn't exclude it from being able to load it.
Outside of that and just getting back in the groove of LP (and making sure all my plugins are updated) the machine is pretty amazing and should be part of the studio for years to come.