![]() ![]() If you have the option, and SPECIALLY if you are a professional and rely on your work…i would NOT update right now. I think it all depends on what kind of plugins you use, so its kind of a hit and miss. The most important thing to do BEFORE installing Catalina is checking the websites of plugin devs, to see if the plugins are Catalina compatible.įor instance, i had difficulties installing Ozone 8, and other iZotope plugins.Īnd check if you need special drivers (eLicense Control still gives me warnings when opening Cubase, but it works).įor now, it works, but it has some glitches and unstable situations, but nothing that is in the way of actual music production. Had to go into Terminal at least 20-30 times, when plugins wouldnt install or got blacklisted by Cubase.Īlso, I made some Superdupers after each big step, so i could go back to previous states (not like Time Machine). I can tell you now that (in my case) Cubase 10.5 works, but with some hacks and issues. ![]() Unfortunately my old 2013 maxed out MB Pro became to slow, so i had to upgrade. Hi, i just bought a new macbook pro 16", that comes pre-installed with Catalina and no option to downgrade. By this stage, most of the bugs have been ironed out and third-party apps have been updated. Conversely: new OSes can introduce as many bugs as they fix, and unless there’s some crucial feature or compatibility requirement you need, you can close more doors behind you than you open in front of you. Lagging years behind can mean that new apps won’t work, and you don’t get bug fixes and security patches and when you do upgrade in one big jump, it’ll be a major undertaking. To the OP: I generally suggest a middle-ground between updating to the very latest and never updating. I run Mountain Lion inside a VM on my 2014 MBP, so that I can use Creative Suite, Filemaker Pro and other old friends. I’m not going to pay to subscribe to Sibelius Ultimate just to open some old scores of mine, so I’ll have to run Sibelius on Windows when I need access to those scores.ĭaniel, you could use an older MacOS in Parallels or other VM. You could try running Go64 to see which apps are going to be the ones that you will no longer be able to run on the new macOS. In general I think the main thing to be wary of is whether any of the applications you rely on have 32-bit components, as both Illustrator CS6 and Sibelius 7 are themselves 64-bit applications, but still don’t run on Catalina because of ancillary or supporting utilities or components that are still 32-bit. I’m not going to pay to subscribe to Sibelius Ultimate just to open some old scores of mine, so I’ll have to run Sibelius on Windows when I need access to those scores. The only real issues I have are that the version of Adobe Illustrator I have used since joining Steinberg in 2012, CS6, won’t install on Catalina, and although Sibelius 7.1.3 itself (the last known good version of that application ) runs, Avid License Control, which is required to activate it, is a 32-bit application and won’t run on Catalina, so I cannot activate my Sibelius license. So far, only a few days in, I’m not experiencing too many problems. Stuff like that.īecause I was having so many problems with the keyboard on my 2018 MacBook Pro 15", I’ve just last week got hold of a new 2019 MacBook Pro 16" (for which I am very grateful, because the new keyboard is fantastic, much closer to how the keyboard used to be on my previous machine, a 2015 MacBook Pro 15"), and of course these new machines cannot run any version of macOS earlier than Catalina. cwx and other graphics files but only the 32 bit version can-I need to do these and save in the new format where the 64 bit version can open them. Recently, I read on another forum about an app that can convert old. ![]() For example, I do very little scanning of music anymore so I’m not waiting on the promised 64 bit upgrade of SmartScore X2 Pro to go to Catalina but I still want that functionality now and then. Frankly, I’m trying to avoid that but it may not be possible. Once I make the change, I may revert to an older Mac OS on the MBP so that I can open file types that will never make the transition to any 64 bit app. So, I’m making progress but am not in a big hurry. If I know beforehand and can take that into account, that’s different. I can’t be in a position where I’m surprised by something not working after the upgrade. Everything gets vetted on the MBP and I’m so glad I did. The laptop is my test machine I run a business and make my living on my iMac Pro. If that’s right and you don’t mind revealing why, I’d be curious why you haven’t updated the desktop yet? If I’m reading your signature line correctly, you’re still running Mohave on your desktop, but Catalina on your laptop? Is that correct? ![]()
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