Officially switching to Mac! What won't work?

[garrettendi]

I'm officially switching to the world of Mac next week. I use MDrummer as my go-to drum sample software and all I can find is "improved compatibility with Catalina" in the change logs.

Is there anyone that can confirm Melda's plugins, particularly MDrummer, work in Catalina?

[garrettendi]

Also, should my Behringer UMC204HD interface work off the bat?

[Agharta]

Apple announced today that they are switching from Intel to ARM chips starting this year and it will take about 2 years to complete the transition at the hardware level.
Interesting times.

[zenguitar]

Your Behringer UMC204HD will work on Mac with no additional drivers required because it's class compliant. The user guide confirms this for you.

Andy

[ConcertinaChap]

Class compliance for audio interfaces is one of the reasons for buying Mac. It's something Microsoft have never got the hang of.

CC

[Lizardpoint]

My biggest disappointment moving from PC to Mac was the loss of Soundforge. (Initially Sonic Foundry, then Sony and now Magix)
I loved Soundforge on the PC and still use it, hoever every crossgrade and upgrade I have paid for in Soundforge Mac has been an utter crock. It is unstable to the point where it is just too annoying to use. I will not be throwing anymore money at future updates.

Having said that, the switch to Mac was undoubtedly the best thing I've ever done and if it were'nt for Coreldraw and Visio, I wouldn't need to run any PC's in my setup at all.

Enjoy your Mac !!!

Lizardpoint

[garrettendi]

Your Behringer UMC204HD will work on Mac with no additional drivers required because it's class compliant. The user guide confirms this for you.

Andy

Thanks Andy. I did know that from the manual but I have heard anecdotal accounts of MacOS Catalina breaking compatibility which is what I feared.

No response from Melda yet about MDrummer on Catalina although the change logs state "improved compatibility with Catalina".

Would you say that confirms it should work? I've had non-stop anxiety all day yesterday over this. One minute I'm crazy excited and the next I'm fretting over it!

[Sam Spoons]

I switched to Macs a fair few years ago and have never regretted it. Apple are far from perfect but I have spent much less time fixing computers since I changed.

[MOF]

My biggest disappointment moving from PC to Mac was the loss of Soundforge. (Initially Sonic Foundry, then Sony and now Magix)
I loved Soundforge on the PC and still use it, hoever every crossgrade and upgrade I have paid for in Soundforge Mac has been an utter crock. It is unstable to the point where it is just too annoying to use. I will not be throwing anymore money at future updates.

Since you own PC OS have you thought about dual booting or emulation such as Parallels for running Soundforge?

[Sam Spoons]

Actually the thing I missed most when I first won't over to Macs was Wavelab. I quite quickly discovered that, for my needs at least, Reaper is a brilliant stereo editor. Now I've discovered it will do video too my cup runneth over*.

* Bear in mind my video editing needs are very simple, basically just chop it to length and sync the music/dialogue.

[TeeJay2112]

I'm officially switching to the world of Mac next week. I use MDrummer as my go-to drum sample software and all I can find is "improved compatibility with Catalina" in the change logs.

Is there anyone that can confirm Melda's plugins, particularly MDrummer, work in Catalina?

can't say for m drummer, but other Melda plugins definitely work in Catalina. I demoed them for the harmony one, before deciding to get Antares harmony engine

cheers

[miN2]

I switched to Macs a fair few years ago and have never regretted it. Apple are far from perfect but I have spent much less time fixing computers since I changed.

Do you think that might be because you lost the ability to fiddle?

[Sam Spoons]

I've never been able to fiddle though I play half decent mandolin

[resistorman]

After Apple's announcement that its moving to ARM (sorry, Apple Silicon) you may want to reconsider jumping in right now...

[Drew Stephenson]

The biggest thing that won't work is all your ingrained habits as you keep looking for a right-click button!

[wireman]

The biggest thing that won't work is all your ingrained habits as you keep looking for a right-click button!

I used to use a middle button.

As for MACs it used to annoy me that you could only expand a window by one corner.

[garrettendi]

The biggest thing that won't work is all your ingrained habits as you keep looking for a right-click button!

I don’t know about earlier versions but on ours you can configure the Magic Mouse to have a right click

[Sam Spoons]

I've got a right click on my Macs, it just isn't activated as a default.

[ConcertinaChap]

I never use Apple mice, they've never had the knack of designing decent ones. Two button mice with scroll wheels work just as you expect them to provided you remember to clear the Scroll direction: Natural (sic) box in mouse preferences. Oh, and MacOS has had the ability to resize windows from any boundary for several versions now.

The later Apple trackpads, OTOH, are a classy design with their haptic feedback. Only thing is they still feel like a solution looking for a problem to me.

CC

[garrettendi]

Our Mac arrived on Friday and I've gotta say.. Wow!

Haven't installed any studio stuff but we had to do streaming etc for the church Deaf community yesterday and it passed with flying colours.

I'm sold now. Never going back to Windows.

[Sam Spoons]

I like mine as you know. And I like both the Magic Mouse with it's multitouch scrolling and 'two button' operation and the touchpad on my MBP with similar.

[zenguitar]

My experience is just the same. Really easy switching between the Magic Mouse with my iMac and the touchpad on my MBP.

Andy

[ManFromGlass]

I’ve been using the vertical mouse for years with my macs. Wrist problems are minimal. It has 3 buttons, a scroll wheel and a thumb button. The scroll wheel also acts as a button I believe but I only use 2 buttons and scroll wheel.

[BigRedX]

I've been a Mac user since the late 80s when the mouse only had a single button (and was a boxy shape). I've got so used to using the modifier keys - Command, Option, Control and Shift together with mouse clicks that I actually find the "right button" an inconvenience and have it turned off. The scrolling on the Magic Mouse is definitely worth having though. I'm sure there are good third-party mice out there but all the ones I've come across (attached to Windows machines) feel flimsy and cheap compare to Apple's offerings.

[Humble Bee]

Happy Mac-under here to! Since 1990!
Now you can have a go at GarageBand! Great fun! And free!