Bugs and glitches experienced with the latest Ventura on a Mac Silicon

[Sanpete]

Updated last night, and today Safari (actually Safari Technology Preview) was misbehaving, had to restart, which has been rare before.

My main complaint at the moment is that my 2021 16" M1 MBP speakers are crackling, which has never happened before, not like this, every few seconds.

Edit: This may also be a Safari problem. Now not happening, a few minutes later, though.

 

[nealb0wen]

MacOS Ventura is a very poor release. 13.3 broke Final Cut for those of us using Logic Pro with a number of 3rd party plugins installed. On launch it just hangs validating components that worked just fine under 13.2. Now it'll even randomly restart the Mac. Audio interfaces randomly stop working requiring restarts.

 

[fisherking]

MacOS Ventura is a very poor release. 13.3 broke Final Cut for those of us using Logic Pro with a number of 3rd party plugins installed. On launch it just hangs validating components that worked just fine under 13.2. Now it'll even randomly restart the Mac. Audio interfaces randomly stop working requiring restarts.

am running both logic (mostly) and final cut (sometimes). i had that issue with izotope plugins (this happened some years back as well). i moved them out of the components folder, opened FCP; moved them back in small groups. now everything is working 👍

not sure about your audio interface? which one? and on which mac? the random restart is concerning, tho; what exactly happens?

 

[nealb0wen]

M1 Max Mac Studio 64gb RAM, Apogee Element 88 Interface...I removed everything from the components folder in HD Library and it launches. I wish I could just launch it without it validating. I've got too many plugins to test. I'll probably just have to downgrade to Monterey; that'd be easier. Unfortunately, DaVinci resolve is also behaving strangely. Random restart if I try to launch Final Cut Pro screen freezes for a sec, and then shuts off, chimes, and poof: back to login screen.

 

[fisherking]

M1 Max Mac Studio 64gb RAM, Apogee Element 88 Interface...I removed everything from the components folder in HD Library and it launches. I wish I could just launch it without it validating. I've got too many plugins to test. I'll probably just have to downgrade to Monterey; that'd be easier. Unfortunately, DaVinci resolve is also behaving strangely. Random restart if I try to launch Final Cut Pro screen freezes for a sec, and then shuts off, chimes, and poof: back to login screen.

re: FCP. you could try moving the components in in groups, until you hit a snag... then investigate the plugins in that group. you could also call apple about these things; no harm in trying that 👍

i wish FCP had some setting to organize 3rd-party plugins; i don't need 97% of them in FCP, so seems pointless they ALL have to validate.... 😔

 

[nealb0wen]

re: FCP. you could try moving the components in in groups, until you hit a snag... then investigate the plugins in that group. you could also call apple about these things; no harm in trying that 👍

i wish FCP had some setting to organize 3rd-party plugins; i don't need 97% of them in FCP, so seems pointless they ALL have to validate.... 😔

I removed everything just to see what would happen. It launched and there was a warning about plugins that weren't compatible or something. It was every last iZotope and UAD plugin. I wish I'd taken a screenshot. Oh well. At least my machine and displays are pretty.

 

[fisherking]

I removed everything just to see what would happen. It launched and there was a warning about plugins that weren't compatible or something. It was every last iZotope and UAD plugin. I wish I'd taken a screenshot. Oh well. At least my machine and displays are pretty.

if you removed all the AUs (from the components folder), and (hopefully) rebooted, there should be no such warning. but check your home folder library as well (home>library>audio>plugins>components) to be sure there are no AU files there.

what i did worked for me (izotope plugins were causing the issue), and moving them back in in small groups fixed it.

 

[HDFan]

did others have experienced some of these issues with Ventura?

Nope. Do have issues with finder giving a spinning gear for a while with large directories (~10000 files).

wholeheartedly agree with Yebubbleman's analysis of AppleCare _ "What is calling Apple going to do?"
It used to be that the unhelpful Apple person was the exception. Now the exception is the helpful person.

Apple support hasn't been helpful in several years.

Not my experience after maybe 1000 support calls over the years. As I have a lot of software that might cause the problem it took me weeks working with the software vendors to realize it was a MacOS issue. I wiped an external SSD, did a fresh install, then reproduce the problem. This happened just this week Once I had a clean test case Apple support captured the data and sent it to development. Waiting now for their response.

 

[nealb0wen]

if you removed all the AUs (from the components folder), and (hopefully) rebooted, there should be no such warning. but check your home folder library as well (home>library>audio>plugins>components) to be sure there are no AU files there.

what i did worked for me (izotope plugins were causing the issue), and moving them back in in small groups fixed it.

Update: I took everything AU component out, then launched Final Cut. I got the dialog box saying every iZotope and UAD plugin didn't pass, and one Apogee plugin. It launched fine after that. I dragged the AU components back into their proper place, quit Final Cut, relaunched and it opened. It still gave me the dialog box about incompatibility, but seemed to work fine otherwise. I was futzing around with disabling SIP, throwing out preferences, and whatever else I could think of. Oh well, works now. 😅

 

[Sanpete]

More speaker cracking today. Never had this issue before.