[Ted Lee]

I would not buy a new MacBook Pro right now. The M1 MacBook Air is an amazing little machine, but it’s ceiling of 16GB of RAM and 2 port config makes it a hard tool to use for audio production.

The M1 series 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro’s are rumored for Q3 of this year (sometime between July and Sept). If you can wait that long, I would.

Reply To: M1 Macs version: 2.2.1
Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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[Ted Lee]

I uninstalled EZD from my M1 Mac. While most of the crashes were when trying to record using an Alesis Mesh Nitro kit and using EZD on the track while it recorded, I did have some kernel panics when just using the EZD plugin on playback. EZD is just not ready for primetime with use on the M1 yet.

Hell, even this forum doesn’t list macOS Big Sur as an OS version when making a post. Toontrack really needs to get it in gear. I’m afraid we’ll be waiting a very long time for an M1/Big Sur approved version of EZD or SD.

And while we are at it, drop the ancient VMware Installer and use Apple’s recommended installer solution.

Reply To: M1 Macs version: 2.2.0

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[Ted Lee]

I have the new MacBook Air M1 with 16GB/512 configuration. Running with Logic Pro X (10.6.0) as the host on Big Sur (the dropdown to specify OS version stops at Catalina), and I’ve had mixed luck. I can add EZD to a track and it plays midi content already recorded back fine. But when recording content via a connected Alesis Mesh Nitro kit, the plugin has a tendency to bring the entire system down with a kernel panic and hard reboot.

So, not ready for primetime just yet. Judging at Toontrack’s speed, I’m betting it will be a few years before they have a native Apple Silicon version of EZD or SD ready for consumption. And knowing Toontrack, I’m betting it will be EZD3 or SD4, requiring a paid upgrade.

Reply To: M1 Macs version: 2.1.8
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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