Hi all,
Got the new Mac Studio (M1) and I'm looking for some clarification on Rosetta and how it all works.
I'm trying not to have anything run Rosetta if/when possible. I understand how to check to box in the "Get Info" pane to run Logic in Rosetta, but does Rosetta run at all... say for plugins even if I don't start Logic that way? A little insight would help me move forward. I spent a week installing fresh and yesterday swapped my new Mac with the old one in the studio. I noticed right away how high my single core CPU looked on a few older tracks I opened... it looked about the same usage as my trashcan so I'm wondering why. For instance I have Pod Farm 2 on some tracks in my templates. I got a message they failed in the Plugin Manager (as expected) , but when I clicked on them in the strip they came to life and worked. I thought for sure I was going to lose the usage of them moving to M1. It's nice to know I can load an older project and still get them working but I need to know if they are actually running in Rosetta and how this works so I can use them only when needed. I opened Activity Monitor and saw the few Intel apps running on my system but could not see info for individual plugs. Also on Activity Monitor... when it shows the CPU usage... is that number the total % of the power of the computer, or just a % of the total being used? For instance it showed 28% for UAD Mixer Engine at times. That seems very high if it's a total of the Mac's CPU power.
Thanks