I'm not a mac user, but I've been receiving press notices for some time now from various audio companies whose hardware or software is not compatible with the new Catalina OS.These include Ableton, Apogee, Native Instruments, Presonus, Serato, Slate Digital, Numark, UAD and others.I think Desmond's advice is spot on: don't upgrade yet. Wait until all the manufacturers have caught up with suitable updates for the 64-bit code.HModerator Posts: 25999 Joined: Fri Jul 25, 2003 12:00 am Location: Worcestershire, UK. Just been to an Apple store today to look at stuff and did ask about the oldest specs supported by Catalina.
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It looks like they’ve drawn the line at 2012. Certainly that was for minis and mbps. So I might be able to scrape in on my studio mini if I feel the urge at some point. Just.My lumbering old 2010 MBP is quite happy running High Sierra so it can be a main stage or recording / editing machine for a while longer. It has all sorts of whacky old school nonsense like a optical drive, FireWire and Ethernet ports.
Pah - who uses any of those these days.?:DJedi Poster Posts: 5417 Joined: Thu Apr 03, 2003 12:00 am Location: Maidenhead. If you use third-party Audio Units on your Mac (in Audio Hijack or SoundSource, for instance), you should be aware of changes made by Apple In Catalina.
These changes mean that at present, many third-party plugins aren't compatible with Catalina.Audio Unit plugins on Catalina are required to be both “code signed” and “notarized”. Plug-in developers will be the ones to worry about that.
Hello folks, I want to start a new conversation on the best Security Suite for Mac OSX. I know it had been discussed before in the past, but I figure with all the changes with the latest Security. Open the installer for Kaspersky Internet Security 18 for Mac. Double-click Install Kaspersky Internet Security. In the Installation window, click the button to view the license agreement and the Kaspersky Security Network statement. Carefully read the License Agreement for Kaspersky Internet Security 18 for Mac.
However, end users should be aware that very few third-party Audio Units currently meet these requirements.If you depend on Audio Units in your work, be extremely cautious about updating to 10.15. Check with the developers of your Audio Units for updates, which will be necessary. Further, for the most critical production setups, setting up a test machine is a great way to verify that everything works as expected before updating your main machine.Jedi Poster Posts: 9142 Joined: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:00 am. When the new Mac Pro ceases to be 'coming this autumn' and is actually available to order, I wonder if they will give the option of having Mojave or Catalina at order stage? Could put a lot of potential pro or minted semi-pro users off purchasing for the time being?I assume the issues discussed will potentially affect video professionals as much as audio?Only being a Mac user for a year or two I don't know about historically, but do Apple make the new OS releases available in advance to software developers so that they can all be up to speed by the time it comes out, and if they do is it simply the case that it takes a very long time to sort it, some years longer than others?
It would be nice not to have an annual 'dead period' where much of the stuff people use doesn't actually work with the current Mac OS. Regular Posts: 179 Joined: Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:50 pm Location: East Midlands, UK. Redlester wrote:Only being a Mac user for a year or two I don't know about historically, but do Apple make the new OS releases available in advance to software developers so that they can all be up to speed by the time it comes out, and if they do is it simply the case that it takes a very long time to sort it, some years longer than others?
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It would be nice not to have an annual 'dead period' where much of the stuff people use doesn't actually work with the current Mac OS.Yes, there is a beta period, but this is a few months tops. They generally make developer beta's available at the WWDC conference, which is around July. This also gets devs up to speed with things that are coming. Then devs spend their summer getting to grips with how the changes impact them, and what they need to do about it.However, in some cases, the changes required are fairly severe (such as security changes mean your whole product's copy protection schemes will no longer work and you have to develop something new from scratch).Also, there are simply many things in the early versions that aren't done yet, so it's difficult to write code against these early betas. Features either don't work, or aren't there, and it's impossible to second guess how these things will change. Not to mention documentation is pretty poor at this stage too.In terms of Catalina, this time around the beta's have been.really.
rough, and there are still things broken in the GM release. All this means that for devs, it's still quite a guessing game, and many have to wait until the GM release to really test their stuff and check compatiability with the release versions. The general consensus is that this time, both the iOS and Mac OS releases have been released not because they are really ready, but because of the schedule, and they aren't really fully baked yet.This is why most third parties are saying 'wait until we have something ready.There are few advantages to jump onto a.0 release, especially on a system that has fundamental changes (like dropping support for all 32-bit code, new security requirements for apps, and so on).As for what the new machines will bring, we'll just have to wait and see.Jedi Poster Posts: 9142 Joined: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:00 am. All contents copyright © SOS Publications Group and/or its licensors, 1985-2020.
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