Henry haha it’s been a journey, but i think i have things mostly sorted. took a day to get everything migrated, deleted 300 gb of stuff i didn’t need, bought a usb/hdmi/tb hub, etc.
took another day to get the audio stuff going again. the software side seems easy enough, had to re-verify a bunch of plugins, and it seemed stable after an hour of use. my biggest issue so far is that my audio interface connects via firewire. that means either buying two more adapters for $100, buying a new interface, or the option i’m trying, which is to use the digitakt as the audio interface. i’ve got it working with ableton, but it’s frozen randomly on me twice already and i’m not sure what’s causing it. i also haven’t tried to monitor ableton and external synths at the same time, so i’m not sure how that’s going to work.
i don’t notice much difference in speed for normal tasks, but a existing projects that were constantly at 70-80% cpu on my 2012 with a 1028 buffer are running around 50% with a 128 buffer. it’s super quiet though, so that’s really helpful too. i assume there will be another equivalent jump in speed once ableton and the plugins are running natively vs through rosetta.
barring a massive catastrophe in the next few days, i think it’s safe to say i’ll be keeping it.
