Status on m1/m2 update?
The year is 8 months in and Apple has released m1/ Max and Pro and now M2 and I'm still running Studio One in Rosetta to use Reaktor, Super 8... Is there any news on??🤯
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2-3 months more waiting for AS & VST3, if things will go along the NI plan.
At least, month ago it has been 3-4 months....
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NI is working on it.
Keep this page bookmarked:
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That page has said the same thing forever. They lean on "rosetta" support but the software runs terribly under rosetta. Massive X and Reaktor, are near unusable. I don't really have any confidence there will ever be M1 support. It's been almost 2 years already and every other audio software company has gotten caught up.
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Reaktor flat out doesn't work at all in Ableton or Logic and takes upwards of 12gigs of ram in some instances in Pro Tools. It desperately needs Apple Silicon support.
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We look into making most our products Silicon ready this year. At least I can confirm Massive X will be hopefully soon 🤞
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Oh that’s great news! I hope you’ll do a semi-open beta like you did with Kontakt 🙏
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Rosetta causes issues, it's not a solution. I mean for a couple of months sure, we could have struggled through but after 2 years? C'mon now, sort it out ffs...
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It's kinda funny really.
If any other company released a completely new platform, users and software developers would probably just ignore it.
When Apple do it, they spin it as an upgrade to their existing platform, and not only do their users unquestioningly accept this, but they also blame third party developers who take longer to adopt it. I mean, I get that for many people Apple can do no wrong, but it's well known that if you are an early adopter of a new technology platform, then you will have to accept the inevitable downsides.
This is a problem for users, and a problem for Native Instruments, but it's not their fault, it's Apple's, and it's Apple you should be complaining to. Why didn't they give third party developers, more time, more resources, and more support in making the transition?
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Nope. NI failed to maintain their code in an adaptable condition for the market. They were short-sighted in building up technical debt.
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Nope.
It's not their code that's the problem here. If NI just ported their code for Reaktor - which I'm sure would be a relatively straightforward job - then Reaktor would work just fine natively on M1 as a compiler that generates X86 code very efficiently. Not much use to you M1 users though... right?
It's not a porting job, they need to write an optimising compiler for M1 silicon. That's a much bigger job than porting some code (which is all that the vast majority of other developers have had to do). It's nothing at all to do with code maintenance or technical debt. It's literally the nature of the product - it's a compiler that targets X86. So porting is useless.
Folk have suggested that NI should use a third party compiler system... LLVM particularly was mentioned. But after taking quite a deep dive into what it can and cant do, it seems that there is no support for dataflow type languages like Reaktor (just some stuff about LLVM using an internal dataflow technology to compile non dataflow languages, which is still in early development stage fwiw).
And anyway, Reaktor's compiler is unique in that it recompiles actively during editing, and as a result it needs to be lightening fast, so a general purpose compiler technology where this is not a top priority is unlikely to be useful.
It's just unfortunate for Apple users that Reaktor is such a unique product that doesn't easily fit into the update programme that Apple has provided. Be patient and thankful that NI didn't decide to drop Mac support completely ;)
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Exactly!!!! And many plugins rely on Reaktor, they are "just" Reaktor ensembles.
And it is not also true, what Nightjar says, that Apple has provided great support to developers. Developers got half baked hardware (development kit) with CPU similar not identical to M1 and betaversion of OS just few months before M1 release....
Problems that has Traktor with M1 Pro/Max/Ultra shows that even the "same" family CPU is not that same. So, providing developer kit with non M1 chip is somehow crazy....
M1/M2 are interesting chips, but it is not worth the problems.... x86 is able to do the same and even better. My guess is Rosetta 3 will come in 5-6 years. Good news is that porting back to x86 will not be that troublesome...
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iPad is the toy. And applications for it did not bring money back.... Professional product for iPad toy? Are you kidding?
It happens companies make bad decisions, or just have bad luck. AMD was close to bancrupcy few years ago. New investor came and new management and now they have better CPUs than Intel...
Intel has hard times recently. The last quarter was the worst ever... That is the result of "four cores forever". And also of technological problems with introducing modern nodes...
Lehman Brothers was one of the banks that never ever may fall....
And the fact that company seeks capital may mean that company is in bad state and needs to be saved, or that company is in good state and wants dramatically expand. Or anything in between.
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And 2, 3, 5, 10 years ago? Now is now... IPad Pro has M1 CPU for 1 year..... And iPad Air few months.... The rest of iPads have weaker CPUs....
And till quite recently iPads had only up to 2 GB of RAM. Toys, not pro devices....
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No one maintains his code so that an OS manufacturer can require a new CPU architecture tomorrow, and it will all work with minor adjustments. That's just not possible. Especially when you rely on CPU extensions which aren't available on the new platform.
@colB is absolutely right up there. If you want to point your finger, point it at Apple.
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You must have a huge beef with Apple to be so negative in all Mac related threads on various forums. I get it, you're PC boy bred and born and you hate them Apples with every fibre of your being, but heck... 🤣
This endless stagnancy (which you PC guys call "compatibility") on Win platform is double edged sword in the same fashion as endless changes to Apple platform. Because of this obsession of clinging to old code and apps, Microsoft can't innovate with Windows the way it could otherwise. I do however agree that Apple quite often innovates too much too often, though 😀
OTOH, just how much time in advance should Apple give developers to rewrite code for new processor architecture, in your humble opinion? 5 years? 10? 20? 100?
I guess your answer would be "just stick to Intel/AMD x86 architecture, no need to change anything". Just put a new lipstick on (very) old cow - like Microsoft with Windows 11. OK, I get it - you do you, but let us do us.
If a software company doesn't want to rewrite their software for M1 (or can't), it's perfectly understandable. It's developer's choice to support Apple platform and I fully respect that and vote with my wallet.
But if a company claims that it supports Apple platform, we expect them to have native M1 versions in a reasonable time. Somehow 2 years was reasonable time for Waves, Korg, Spectrasonics, Arturia, iZotope, U-He, Rob Papen, Synapse, AAS, Softube, reFX and hundreds of other vendors. Just not for NI.
I know it's difficult for them, due to old codebase, ancient graphic libraries and Intel specific AVX code. I understand the gargantuan work they need to do. But other big companies with 20 years old code did this somehow already.
NI managed to make 1 of their engines M1 native (Kontakt) in 2 years time. This is beyond pathetic, IMHO.
So please, hardcore PC guys and Apple haters - instead of polluting every Mac thread with your musing, lobby NI to drop support for Apple altogether. Until they do that (and they won't, cause that's where the money is), we have every right to demand compatibility with M1 processors in a timely fashion.
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