Maddcow Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Hi all. I plan to get a new MBP 16" machine soon and of course, these will only run 10.15 Catalina. So, I decided to install Catalina on an external HDD (with my mid-2014 MBP) to test MainStage with my plugins. Interestingly, all of my plugins appear to have installed and work fine despite some of them having warnings from their devs that they have issues with Catalina i.e. with Korg M1 LE, the standalone is not supposed to work at all with Catalina but it does on my installation. I still have plenty of testing to do but my question is this: do you guys think it would be reasonable to expect that my successful test install of Catalina/MainStage/plugins would be a good indicator that this setup should work on a new MBP 16" machine? Cheers Gary P.S. I'm usually never an early adopter of a new version of Mac OS or new machines - especially given that I use MainStage for live performance as a full-time musician - until considerable time and testing has proven these. However, my situation is such that I need to get another MBP and I'd much rather invest in a new MBP design than put the $$ into the previous generation (with all the keyboard issues etc). Of course, I'd much prefer to use an older iteration of Mac OS but this isn't an option if I get a new MBP...hence my question above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ploki Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 Short answer yes long asnwer: Most of plugins installed on Mojave will work when UPDATED to Catalina, some plugins might have issues INSTALLING on a fresh copy of Catalina, but i think it's possible to circumvent that with some fiddling with the Gatekeeper. I don't know what you did, but if you did a fresh copy and everything works, it should work on the 16" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddcow Posted November 27, 2019 Author Share Posted November 27, 2019 Everything was installed on a completely new install of Catalina on my external drive.....so I could end up being lucky. I ordered the new MBP 16” today but the ETA isn’t till 9 Dec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddcow Posted December 18, 2019 Author Share Posted December 18, 2019 Just as a follow-up: I got my new 2019 MacBook Pro 16" and an RME UFX+ interface and this combination is amazing. The new MBP is amazingly fast, Catalina is very stable and the UFX+ has crazy-low latency. Loving it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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