![]() ![]() ![]() However, none of the software you are running is taking full advantage of the new Silicon chip architecture. We’ve covered this before, but in a nutshell if you have any non-native Silicon software or plugins running, then the entire session runs in Rosetta 2. Some of you may be reading this and thinking ‘hang on, I have a Silicon Mac and I’m running my music software.’ You are correct, but right now that’s because of the magic of Rosetta 2 handling under the hood tasks that enables non-native software to run on your Apple Silicon Mac. ![]() We would all love to live in a world without the need for software protection, but the need for these systems lies squarely at the door of the software pirates who seek to deprive developers of revenue by cracking and illegally distributing software. It could be easy to get hot under the collar and start throwing rocks at PACE and the developers who choose to use them. For many developers, PACE is the only one they fully trust. A reliable system means they can be confident that their intellectual property is safe from software piracy. Their clients are the software developers like Avid and not us, the end-users, their job is to protect their clients from piracy. They have to be sure that everything works all of the time. PACE is having to rewrite its systems from the ground up to make its architecture work with Apple Silicon. Protecting software with bulletproof technologies isn’t simple. It is our understanding that Apple Silicon native support for PACE iLok is still some time away. It may also be the case that other protection systems being employed by different developers may also present similar challenges for the Apple Silicon transition.Įarly adopters like FabFilter and Blue Cat Audio are compatible but as so many premium plugins use Pace’s iLok technology unless that is capable of running natively on an Apple Silicon Mac then a very large number of plugins won’t work fully. What this means is that any software developer will need PACE’s software to be able to run natively on Apple Silicon, before they can release a version of their software that can run natively on Apple Silicon and this includes Pro Tools and many top plugin brands. This release includes many enhancements, these include ĭigital signing of arm64 and universal binariesįaster logins for large accountsįurthermore, PACE are hard at work on native ARM support and working with all developer partners as they make the transition to new Silicon powered Apple Macs.” Since August 24th all developers have had access to Eden 5.3.0 SDKs and end-user software. “PACE technologies including iLok are Rosetta 2 compliant and have been since end of August. There is a problem that is much broader than just one DAW brand, it extends to any software or plugin that uses PACE iLok and that is the lack of native support for Apple Silicon.īack in December 2020, PACE iLok announced that their piracy protection software was Apple Silicon compatible under Rosetta 2… What you may not be aware of, is that it isn’t all Avid’s fault. The Elephant In The Roomīut for audio professionals, there is an elephant in the room that we need to address, and that is PACE iLok, which many software developers use to protect their products from piracy and whatever you think about PACE and iLok, brands use iLok to protect their investment in developing products.įor example, although Avid supports Pro Tools running on Apple M1 computers, Avid is being criticised for being slow on updating Pro Tools to run natively on Apple Silicon powered computers. The good news is that some software runs faster on Apple Silicon via Rosetta 2 than it does on Intel-powered computers, but the real benefits come when the software we use can run natively on Apple Silicon, especially when we get chips that have more processors and much more RAM, which we expect to see with the M1X chips, hopefully being released in October or November this year. ![]() So what is the bottleneck? You might be surprised. Yes, we can run existing software under emulation via Rosetta 2, but that isn’t ideal for what we do. With the upcoming expansion of the Apple Silicon range with the next generation of ARM-based Mac computers, with what is being called M1X chips, there is still a problem for audio professionals wanting to embrace the new Apple technology - the need for full native support for all the software we use. ![]()
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