Pro Tools also isn’t yet supported in macOS 12 Monterey, on either Intel or Apple Silicon powered Macs. Pro Tools isn’t yet supported to run natively on the new Apple Silicon SoC chips, which means this test has been undertaken with Pro Tools and all the plugins running Rosetta 2. Note, this is another unscientific test with a number of things we need to declare. The session also uses numerous instances of Avid stock plugins including 14 instances of EQIII, 117 instances of instances of Channel Strip, 1 instance of Dverb and 1 instance of Dither. The session has over 700 tracks, with instances of the Xpand virtual instrument. Instead of just recording 16 tracks at a low buffer setting we decided to really tax the new MacBook Pro with a large session to see what would happen. “Can you please test multitrack (16 channels+ ideally) tracking at low buffer settings with typical plugins please?” The Test
following on from our article MacBook Pro 2021 With M1 Max - Experts Give Their First Impressions, in the comments community member Ru Cook asked us Because the new Apple MacBook Pro ships with Monterey pre-installed, and cannot be rolled back, in the meantime we are responding to the questions we can answer. We can’t currently run the standard power test we normally use as some of the Avid plugins used in our standard Power Test are currently incompatible with macOS 12 Monterey. We are working as fast as we can to address your questions about the new Apple MacBook Pro powered by M1 Pro and M1 Max SoC.