Anyone still on Ventura for music production ?

[Dr. McKay]

I'm running everything on my 14 inch MB Pro M1 for the moment (graphic design, music production, etc) but I still have an older 27 inch iMac (mid 2017) with 32Gb of RAM running Ventura (max OS) ; thought I might try and use that solely for music production.

Does anyone still use Ventura as their main OS for music production ? I would run Reaper on it but there may be certain plugins that don't run anymore on Mac OS 13.
Native Access will run, as will Arturia software center. Others will probably run as will but I would like to know which installers require an OS higher than Ventura, if any...

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated...

 

[sweet_spot]

My 27" iMac 2019 40G Ram, 8core i9, Logic Pro, has Ventura and even though I can go to Sequoia I'm keeping it as is, as my iZotope plugs wont be compatible if I move up OSes. Everything seems to be OK and the Mac ticks along nicely. Its still feels pretty good doing everything I need it to do. Im on NI K14 UCE and the only thing I get with that is a few heavy presets in the likes of the Light Trilogy. Those can peg a core even using just 1 note but fortunately thats rare.

You should be good with that computer but of course the skies the limit in music production, so it very much depends on what you're doing. Some people only need a few tracks and dont necessarily use a lot of plugs.

I have an M4 Studio and slowly taking my time moving towards making that my main machine, but in reality they'll both share the main machine status while the studio wont run iZo plugs and Im in no hurry to upgrade them.

A word of warning for Native Access which has caused a lot of grief for some folks over recent years. Recently NI made product installers available to logged in members, a feature that was asked for repeatedly. One reason was to avert being swamped by users who had inavertently updated their products only to find they are no longer compatible with their version of Kontakt. Gazillions of people caught out on that and continue to be. Theres been real issues lately for Mac users being able to install products to external drives. I think thats for Tahoe but might be other OSes as well. Defintiely check comptibility before you update ANY libraries.

 

[Dr. McKay]

Thanks for the feedback !

 

[sweet_spot]

You're welcome.