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Then, under Privacy, add all connected drives. Go to Preferences and select “Spotlight”. However, this is an easy problem to solve with a bit of time invested. At times, the app mds_worker (which does the indexing) was drawing up to 500 percent of my system’s performance according to Activity Display! And that made my system stumble a few times (Audio hiccups, CPU peaks and crashes). Furthermore, I (and many others) had a big issue with MacOS’s search engine Spotlight indexing my hard drive. Now that I painfully updated everything, only the programs NI Host Integration, Native Access Helper, NTKDaemon (yes, these are all apps from Native Instruments since most of NI’S stuff is not yet running natively) and Antares Central Service run in Rosetta 2 mode.
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1: Update everything to the latest Version! Tip: If you have trouble running any program natively, right-click it in MacOS’s programs folder, select “ Get Info” and see if “Rosetta 2 Mode” is checked.
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And that is one of the main pieces of advice: check for Apple Silicon native compatibility for every software, driver and plug-in you have installed and update wherever possible! This way, I got a clear picture about which of those apps I should update or not run at all. A single click on the respective tab sorts all running apps by mode. Activity Display showed me for every app, which mode it was running on (Intel = Rosetta 2, Apple = Native M1). In addition, the software displays the kind of app: Intel CPU or Apple Silicon compatible. MacOS’s Activity Display was a big help in displaying the CPU performance of every running app. So, in the beginning, there was lots of Googling to read up on what others were experiencing. And GAS makes me want to continually discover new plug-ins and features. But I am a passionate explorer (comes with the territory). The new Mac had loads of hiccups in some tasks. In the beginning the switch did not go so well. And that means: yes! Switching to the Mac Studio was definitely the right decision. I was able to find solutions for all of my technical issues with the help of forums and brand communities, by contacting manufacturers and developers directly and even a bit of trial and error. And for the past week, there have not been any more hiccups due to CPU spikes or lessened performance due to a lack of native compatibility. I wouldn’t put it further away as I have to push the power button at least once a day. The little box now sits in front of me right behind the MIDI controllers I use to control my DAW and my audio plug-ins.
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Otherwise, I would have had to download, install and authorize every single plug-in. Luckily, I did not have to completely re-install everything (to this day). Migrating to the new mac from my old iMac 5K (32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) went smoothly and without any problems. As I wrote in the initial report on the new Mac Studio with M1 Max, 64 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD, I now work exclusively with the new machine in my studio.