I was just wondering if there were any updates regarding native support for the m1 chip/arm64 architecture?
The Rosetta translation layer is functional but it would be amazing to see these plugins utilize the full potential of these m1 chips and the upcoming silicon models, especially with realtime input monitoring in larger projects!
bump.
As of yesterday (with the latest NI updates), NeuralDSP are the only plugins I use that don’t support Apple Silicon?
It would be nice to have some sort of ETA for support, these machines have been out for 2 years.
are we there yet?
I’m quite disappointed by the pace with this. I need to upgrade my Mac and have bought most of the plugins except Rabaea and Henson. If I pull the trigger only Toneking will be usable with an Apple silicon processor. As a consequence I have decided to phase out all usage of the Neural plugins not to find myself in a situation where I need to run in Rosetta mode to be able to complete projects. ML Sound Labs, Brainworx and I guess alot of other companies have guitar amp plugins that already run natively.
For all those who are concerned but may not know it:
It is possible to run a DAW silicon native (without Rosetta) and have non-native plugins running within in au format.
In au format there seems to be a kind of wrapper on plugin level.
So you don’t have to run the whole DAW via Rosetta.
However, this does not seem to run as performant and stable as silicon native plugins.
From time to time I get an error with such au plugins that the communication to the plugin has been lost.
You should then save the session and reload.
I would also really appreciate it, if Neural DSP would release their otherwise really great plugins in Apple silicon native format as soon as possible.
Please pardon my ignorance, but what is missing that would work better? I use my Neural plugins with my M1 Mac daily with no issues. I guess I don’t understand the inner workings of what this thread is about.
Plug-ins that aren’t Silicon native have to run w’ Rosetta which is like a built-in converter. Haven’t any issues running Neural stuff myself but I guess some have.
Thanks for the clarification.
Thanks, that’s helpful to know. I guess it doesn’t help if your DAW is Cubase 12 but for Logic and Studio one that support the AU-format it sounds like a potential solution. Still, most other guitar plugins are already migrated to native apple silicon so there are options if this wrapper solution doesn’t work.
They work with Rosetta but performance is worse.