I can explain your issues : 1) the drive issue is a permission issue. You can fix it if you change the permissions of the main folder and folders underneath on your external drive to all users as read and write. Since external devices don’t work as a root folder permissions are necessary. 2) Plugin loading in Pro Tools… You probably work in Rosetta Mode and that’s why you have this long loading times. If you would try a native DAW, you will not see any issues like that. 3)Mouse issue: put some paper in it since the battery issue is an old one… the new Magic Mouse would be the better solution… one charge is enough for a month and you don’t have connection issues at all. 4) you can fix the fan „issue“ with an external tool and set the fan rpm to 1000-1100 without having issues under max load. You can use software like Macsfancontrol for it.
@@freaky425 probably because it is much faster then any Intel machine ?! Also the Pro Tools issue will be fixed as soon as Pro Tools release a native Apple silicon version. The write permission issue with the external device can be fixed in under 20 seconds. Aswell as the fan control story. I don’t regret switching to Apple silicon and I had the 28 core Mac Pro aswell so I can compare it quit good I would say. 90% of the VSTs are also Apple silicon native and I don’t have any issues working with Studio One.
@@prodby430 cool! I am still with 2018, 32 Ram touch bar, and just observing when to spend 5k$ again. I think that mixing skills helps a lot, since we use too much unnecessary fat and this affects performance as well. A simple panner and the Ozone Elements does wonders , for example , if the source sounds already good
@@prodby430 Is it fast? Yes. But ANY Intel machine is a stretch. Given the cost will be a bit high (though competitive to a $9,000 Studio), you can easily build a 32-core, 256GB RAM intel system that would crush an M1 Ultra Studio for about $12,000. Here's the kicker: You can build an AMD 64-core Threadripper system that will absolutely obliterate ANYTHING the Studio can do. For $8,000.
I'm running both Logic and Studio One 5 and haven't had any issues with plugins loading or SSD drives. The Mac Studio blows away my previous Mac and it was a great machine.
Tip for the mouse problem: I used to have connectivity problems with my old Magic Mouse. It was a problem with the batteries having too much space in the battery compartment. A piece of paper folded a few times wrapped around the batteries resulted in a lot less connectivity problems for me.
I've heard this as well. The advice I got was to put small pieces of tin foil at the battery poles. I don't know how paper works, as it's generally not conductive!
@@svenisaksson3970 Great. I don't put the paper at the poles, but around the sides of the batteries. It more to hold them in place. So conductivity is not an issue in this case.
I was having the same hard drive issue on both my Mac Studio and Intel Mac Mini when I updated to the latest pro tools. I was prompted by PT to set my hard drive to “R” (which I think literally means record lol 😒) inside PT via the workspace (I think) to able to record to my drive. That solved it for me.
unrelated-but..... a few years ago I was working on a broadcast automation system where we replaced a VTR with a mini server, for tapeless delivery of commercials. the vendor promised us that the server would emulate a VTR in regard to its remote control protocol.... but being tapeless, when the automation tried to cue the clip in the server, the response was almost instantaneous- "I'm cued", which threw an exception in the automation because no VTR on earth ever cues instantly- it has to back up the tape to the right frame & that takes a finite time, often several seconds. so..... maybe.... with the better buss speeds in the new mac, maybe protools is getting a 'write' acknowledgement back from the drive sooner than it is expecting. just a thought. have yyou raised a ticket with PT?
1:35 if you open a workspace in reaper and then open volumes, you will see all your drives. For drives you want to write/record to, make sure to select the R in front of the mode column. R makes it so you can record to them!
I have 2 Mac Studios in use for different aspects of production. One of them had some issues out of the box, specifically with USB ports. Some devices would work on the front USB-C ports but not on one of the rear USB-A ports. Other devices would work on the USB-A ports, but not the front USB-C ports. The other Mac Studio did not have those problems and all devices have worked on all ports. I took the malfunctioning Mac in for service and they replaces practically everything: Logic Board (10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 32GB), USB-C Ports (front), and
I just bought a mac studio, the basic 32 memory 500 gb and a samsung solid 1tb external harddrive and I have never been so happy, I use logic, luna, melodyne studio and I have no problem recording everything on the external harddrive.
Hey Colt, long-time ProTools user here and also an Avid Certified Instructor for ProTools. You might want to check the Disk Permissions IN Protools. Navigate to Window -> New Workspace -> Default and open the Workspace browser. Check if your SSD drive you are using to record on has the permissions set to "R" and not "P". Occasionally, PT might glitch out and change the permissions for whatever reasons. I've experienced it once even though my settings were all the same and I didn't change anything in PT. I hope this eliminates the possibility of that setting in PT itself. This will prevent anything from recording onto the disk itself in PT if the permissions are changed from "R" to "P".
You should get the rechargeable mouse Magic Mouse 2, it takes few minutes to charge if you are in a hurry, when Magic Mouse is fully charged it can run for about a month or more between charges. I was thinking the same way, but when I got it few years ago it proved it wasn’t a big issue. Thanks for your video.
Hard drive issue: There is the possibility for some users (although I’m sure you checked this) that they simply need to define the drives in ProTools as record drives. PT doesn’t automatically record to all drives. This would be evident to someone who finds that recording works on the internal drive but not an external drive.
I had that problem at first too, but my drive kept disconnecting, I tried replacing the USB-C read cable and it worked for a week then started happening again, replaced it again and it just started happening. IDK what the hell is going on or if I have a bad dock but this seems like rosetta SoC thing. Somethings fucky
I am running Luna and it’s been flawless so far. Loving mac studio. All my programs and samples are on the onboard drive 2G and then I have a fast SSD outboard drive for song/music files. Also got 64 gigs or Ram. I’m unstoppable. Lol
ProTools is definitely janky running on M1 because it's in Rosetta. Some plugins, won't work properly at all (e.g. Acustica). Who knows when Avid will get their sh*t together... they're already way behind by not being M1 native and I don't even know if it will happen this year, all this for the annual price of having access to updates, but not this, the most important thing they should be focusing on.
Wasn't Rosetta supposed to work seamlessly? I would blame Apple for this, as not every developer can keep up with major breaking changes in the OS every year. For example, some controllers that require drivers still use the same driver for Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 (that's 10 years of compatibility!), meanwhile on MacOS it needs 4 different versions for Mojave/Catalina/Big Sur/Monterey. Yes, Apple changed the processor architecture, but it is their job to ease the transition while 3rd party developers catch up.
I have the mac mini m1 with 8gb or ram and Pro tools Runs amazing on it with all kind of plug-ins and I also have an external solid state 1tb drive where I have all my projects and I’ve never had any issues
@@lumer2b It does work seamlessly but there can still be some randomness from the program itself. Apple also did make it very easy for developers to migrate over. Many moved pretty quick, some took longer, like Ableton just became M1 native earlier this year. They have for sure made it easy for developers. What controllers are you talking about? If it is usb class compliant there is not driver at all.
@@seancca Roland synths aren't class compliant and need drivers, one new driver every year for MacOS, same driver forever for Windows. Yamaha needs driver for full functionality, same thing. Class compliant devices were even worse: Native Instruments Traktor DJ could get the hardware damaged by just connecting to a Big Sur machine (M1 or not) back when Big Sur was released, and Komplete Audio interfaces misbehaved. They are all class-compliant and the problem took a few months before Apple fixed it. Some docks could brick MacBooks because of a macOS bug. Apple keeps pushing a new version every year and releases a product that is not even pre-beta quality and has all kind of issues with software that worked fine before, that's not being developer friendly. I'm still running Catalina on my Mac, meanwhile Windows 10 which was supposed to be shit never had this kind of issues with my hardware.
Running a 2014 Mini, the Magic Mouse gives me the same disconnecting issues you’re having. Thankfully it’s not my studio machine, and it’s good to know it’s a widespread issue instead of isolated.
What I've discovered on my Mac Studio is that the rear Thunderbolt/UBS ports are defective. They cause consistent drop out, freezes, crashes and more fun stuff. The front ports are All Good, but the rear ports are a disaster. And I need those ports to work perfectly. This is my first new Mac in many years (I have so so so many Macs but in the last few years Apple appeared to lose their way and I ended up building my own Hacks instead to great effect), but have been wanting a reason to move back to their hardware - and the M chip was it. Unfortunately, after many dozens hours of tests and searches, I've concluded this is a very common issue, not likely related to software and despite how much I want to love it and boy do I ever love the M chip and GPU engines, my Studio is ...well much more a Lemon than an Apple.
I would check to see what you have them formatted as. APFS is the best formatting for the newer Macs and M1. I have the Samsung f5 thunderbolt 3 no issues.
I have both Magic Mouse generations, and two Mac Studios, one at home and one at work. I have connectivity problems ONLY when using the new Magic Mouse at work. I never understood why!
Returned mine, I run logic and it didn’t seem any faster than my I7 mini. I couldn’t get any session to play without glitches. Never had a hard drive issue, I’m running vectotech ssds.
Try the new Magic Mouse. Using all day, battery lasts about a month. If you run out of battery, you can charge it for a couple minutes and go for another hour. Maybe completely charges in an hour. The old one like you have, it used to feel like the batteries were always going dead. Also the pairing, plug it into the usb cable and it's paired. Want to use it on another Mac, same thing and it only takes a couple seconds.
Guarantee you that beachball issue on the plug-in initial instance is a graphics issue. Could be Rosetta related but Try changing your display color settings to sRGB. That’s what PT likes best.
Weird. Been recording to and mixing from that exact drive in Pro Tools since day one with my Mac Studio (about 5 months now), and I’ve never had an issue. Maybe it’s a disk permissions setting in Pro Tools?
I purchased the apple Mac Studio M1 last summer and since the Sonoma updates I have had nothing but trouble in pro tools studio. Now following the latest pro tools update I am unable to record anything without it crashing on me telling me I’ve run out of CPU power. It’s so frustrating because my recording has ground to a halt. You mentioned the external drive I was wondering if I should unplug it when recording? I notice that the computer is storing songs weird. By default it stored to documents and another strange thing is that it is storing some bass guitar waveform parts for instance outside the folder for the song it should be in. I’m new to a Mac. I assumed that switching to a Mac would solve all my problems but I was wrong I’m back to square one! I have done everything from backing up my mixes to deleting the things I’m not working on and emptying my bin but to no avail. Depressed and frustrated 😭
I switched to a Logitech MX Master 3 mouse on my M1. Includes a horizontal scroll wheel as well as the good old vertical scroll. You can also program for example a few favo shortcuts, and assign them to one of the buttons. Best feature i like actually is the thumb-rest, which i didnt see coming to be honest. Not dragging your thumb over the desk does make a difference, really. Might want to give it a try. Oh and it is rechargeable with a usb-c cord, while you still continue to use it. The only downside i found is to use it with another machine (you can switch between 3 macs for example) you need to press the button on the - drum roll - bottom. Duh! But if you're not a frequent switcher, you should be fine.
I’ve been using an MX Master 3 for 3-4 years now (previously using MX Master 2) and took delivery of a Studio Max a few weeks ago (Trashcan MacPro previously). No mouse issues that I can see and I use it 10+ hours a day. The Studio has a few minor quirks that I’m sure will be rectified once Adobe and Apple get in sync. After waking the Studio from sleep mode, my Adobe programs will have the tops of the windows in the center of the screen and it’s tool panels splashed across my second monitor. I don’t know if that is a Studio thing or just an M-chip thing but it’s only the Adobe programs. Also having fun tuning in the sleep/wake settings.
I have a Mac Studio with M1 Max. I'm using a Magic Mouse 2 that I used for 5 years without issue with my old iMac. I'm also using a non-Apple Bluetooth keyboard. A couple of times in the last week, I've had both the keyboard and the mouse disconnect at the same time, and them seconds later, reconnect. Seems to me it's a Bluetooth hardware or driver issue with the Mac Studio. It's not a show-stopper, overall I love this machine, but it's getting annoying. And puzzling to me is it didn't start happening until I'd had the machine for over 3 months.
I have the exact same issues. I noticed the Apple Touch ID Keyboard was particularly laggy when reading a fingerprint. I've been working with the Apple Support team for over a year now and they're unable to figure it out. Maddening...
@@SoundStudio412 Well it's been at least 2 years now, and it's been quite a while since I've had the same issue, so maybe they fixed mine in a patch, yours sounds like it might be different. My experience with Apple support has been pretty dang good over the years, and while they aren't perfect, it's better than Microsoft, I feel for those poor victims of Bill Gates...
@@keithbrown9198 Yeah, I wish they'd been able to help me. I've sent more "DataCapture"'s to Engineering than I can count, and they've never once been able to help me figure out why a crash happened, or what's wrong with their Touch ID keyboard/Trackpad. Thanks for the reply!
I do have the same things with some plugins, I guess these are the ones that are not M1 native, Rosetta is a bit of a pain imo. Except that, it runs very very well to me! The fan is not a problem in my case, my room is not so quiet, I can't barely hear the fan on day, on evening that is sometimes different (according to my fatigue and so). But yeah, I'm so glad I switched from an old mac mini to this M1 pro.
I think that is the problem. When the plugin with x86 instructions is loaded for the first time, Rosetta wil convert it to arm instructions, this wil take a few seconds. After that is is cached.
I agree with some of the comments below - PT could be the problem here. I have my Mac Studio using Logic, and a few external SSDs - SanDisk, Samsung, and G-Drive and no issues reading and recording to them. I think all my plugins (a lot of different brands) work in Logic Pro - no issues. After about a week of using I switch off Rosetta, and things run even smoother. I expected some plugins will not load but so far so good. I've heard issues with ProTools and M1 Macs so likely not a Mac Studio issue. The only issue I had was Bluetooth strength. Where I put the Mac Studio now is not a direct path to my MS BT mouse, and I found it "jerky" a lot of times. Never had this issue with my old iMac Pro.
⚠️ WARNING ABOUT MAC STUDIO There are more then a couple problems. I own a Mac Studio and 64 gig ram system. It is full of bugs for music software, including video editing. It has turned into an absolute nightmare on various levels. Play back glitching and Looping when it’s not supposed to be Looping. System crashes that are never ending. Despite I have sent seven or eight system crashes now to Apple nothing has ever been resolved why my system keeps crashing. They’ve had a half a year to resolve this issue‼️ And the processor is easily overloaded once you start adding video software such as final cut pro. Even when you start a brand new music project that’s only one track, I get a message saying that the internal SSD is too slow. I receive that message frequently as it’s a real headache because then you’re music software no longer works. You have to close and reboot and hope for the best. I use my Mac Studio about 50 to 70 hours a week. Had anyone done a genuine review of the problems that I have listed which are far more than listed here, as I actually use the Mac Studio nearly every day… I would’ve never bought one. DO NOT BUY A MAC STUDIO UNTIL THE NEXT GENERATION COMES OUT IN EARLY 2023? I will be selling my current first generation when the next one comes out. Again do not buy this if you’re going to be using it for professional projects. Mac Studio cannot handle professional use. The problem is so bad that twin processors would never resolve all these issues. DO NOT BUY A MAC STUDIO UNTIL THE NEXT GENERATION‼️ Consider yourself warned.
Upgrade your mouse to the Logi MX MASTER 3 FOR MAC. It has a scroll wheel by the thumb that you can make scroll left and right. Then up and down with the top scroll wheel. It also has 3 other buttons that I programmed to do a few other things.
For a VERY expensive bit of kit the Mac Studio is disappointing. I totally agree - the mouse charge port on the bottom is like having your fuel cap inside your exhaust pipe. Video connector is so close to the USB cables I find I can't help but accidentally dislodge it when I'm pulling cables. Mouse connectivity is irritating - why Apple? WHY??? I see now why the call it the "Magic Mouse" - because it keeps disappearing!!!. :o( Gotta be very careful to 'eject' any memory devices, like direct connect to my camera or when I take the chip and insert it directly to the Mac - it is just invisible - took me ages to figure you have to 'eject' it every time and then probably use Disk Utilities to "re-mount" it - and perhaps use the First Aid option first to access it at all. Then I had to rename the camera memory chip to avoid confusion with some volume called "untitled" that turned out to be what I think was the Mac's internal hard drive - which caused major confusion and darn nearly got itself erased in an attempt to get rid of the ghost. I dunno what mac does to my android phone, but I had a heck of a job getting it to work normally on my PC after plugging it into the mac and then having to use Android File Transfer, though I realised years ago Apple wants to lock you in to their proprietary systems, like iPhone and hates talking to android devices. (They're only filing systems, for pity's sake) The more I notice this the less inclined I am to line Apple's bank accounts. I'd actually be more inclined to buy more apple products if they'd let me migrate progressively out of choice - not because I'm being extorted. Admittedly, I am switching back to Mac after a long break, but it is an infuriating system after Windows. (truth be told they BOTH irritate me) Take, for example, trying to sift out several sorts of files (from my insta 360 camera) there are jpgs and raw and insta's own standards but Mac seems to think if I want these sorted by 'type' that I am expecting to find that any picture is the same as any other - that's not what I wanted, so I had to use some control feature to sort by 'kind' ... even then it had like 2,000 files mixed up - luckily I realised there was a massive size difference, so I sorted by size and was able to separate the ones I wanted that way. For pete's sake - I can do this from DOS on a PC with "Dir *.jpg" What I really miss is the simplicity of the bare filing system in Windows (or DOS / Command line) instead of having the bottleneck of having to go through iTunes and use 'Photos' to import videos from my iPad. or this "Synchronise" thing that I just don't want at all. I just don't work that way at all. Most of my tasks are unique and simply involve copying a batch of files - I'm not updating my music or calendar across several devices. Also the constant pressure to sign up for iCloud is getting on my nerves. I don't actually do my computing on the move - so I don't need web storage (at a fee) I have a stack of external drives and anyway you can get a terrabyte or more on a memory chip these days - so why pay and have the bottleneck of uploading and downloading files that, potentially, could be hacked. I don't want my data all over the planet. Furthermore we 'normal' humans might not have unlimited broadband on tap, due to budget or living in the sticks - so it is not like being based in Apple HQ and treating the cloud as if it was bolted onto the back of your phone, ipad and mac. Anyways, I have free cloud storage already and rarely ever use it. Then, because I bought an Apple they gave me 3 months Apple TV for Free... okay, I don't watch TV at all, (I don't even have a TV Licence) but I might have tried it - until I realised they want my Apple ID or Credit card to pay for something that is "free" - umm.. no thanks Apple. I used to like Apple for loads of reasons and I go right back to the 6502-based Apple ][europlus - pre Lisa, pre Macintosh.. .but I don't know what drugs these computer designers are on these days - they've lost the plot. Honestly? had I thought of it two days earlier I seriously was making enquiries about returning the system to get my money back. I've lost hours and hours researching to find "work-arounds" for simple, simple basic every day tasks. Annoyingly I bought the Final Cut Pro licence when I purchased the Mac and I also used up my one remaining licence for Camtasia to migrate to my new Mac - so by the time I had sourced a few extra software tools there is a considerable investment I'd hate to lose by getting rid of it. I don't think I could live with the decision to lose hundreds of pounds by re-selling it so early, but it came down to a close call. I'm going to give it a bit longer - but I'm not happy. Sure, it is powerful and fast - I'm already finding a 7x difference from my old i7 PC for doing photo & video processing and I love that, but day to day housekeeping is SO incredibly awkward it is extremely frustrating. Just about everything I try - it fights me. I spent more time trying to outwit it than I do getting on with my work. Thankfully, I'm retired now - or it would have gone through the window long ago, but what a massive cock up. I really do regret buying one now. I don't trust it any more and am compiling a growing list of little hacks and work-arounds. Its nuts. Get a Time & Motion expert in amongst it and sort your lives out. Oh yeah and only 2 remaining Apple stores in Scotland - bad news. That was nearly a show stopper for me.
Quick comment on the mouse. I have two mouses with the rechargeable USB. That way when one needs to be charged, the other one is already charged and I just connect it until my main mouse is good to go. It’s a pain. But there are no issues with it disconnecting. Keep in mind I am on an Intel processor with the iMac Pro
My fan speed runs at about 1300 rpm’s and I downloaded the free fan speed app and lower it to 1100rpm when I record. The fan is totally silent then and the temp never raises. I absolutely love my Mac studio.
Hey pal. I believe the plug-in issue is strictly PT related as I started having the same issues since upgrading to the newest version. Lag when loading up the first instance of a plug-in and then PA console strip plugins trigger the compression metering in PT without actually doing anything. Same issues with the mouse as I was using a v1 Magic Mouse. The Bluetooth in those older units just go downhill. Same thing happened to my v1 Magic Trackpad and I had to replace that.
I have my Mac Studio running entirely on M.2 SSDs, aside from a HDD dock to access old PT sessions and fortunately had no such issue. That said, moving from a 2011 Mac Pro to the Mac Studio was not without some teeth grinding and second guessing my life choices. Most of my issues were random plugins sparking the pinwheel of death.
Bought an M1 mini in April 2021 and it has issues when loading from SD cards I have to restart the mini before it recognises the card, the reader worked fine with my intel mini. Over 30 years using Mac’s and the M1 has had more issues in 15 months than the rest combined. Went through a period where the mini would freeze and shut down with out any warning
Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm going to show your post to the IT Manager at work. We were considering getting a few m1 minis for the art department, but it's just not worth all the headaches and compromises and frustration. Ryzen or Alder Lake are super-fast, and everything works there without any issues.
I‘ve had massive disconnection problems with my magic mouse with my old 2014 mbp. They disappeared when i changed the battery brand from a cheap one to duracell!
I initially thought the same of the Magic Mouse 2 when I had to pick one up. Turns out they last an incredibly long time on a single charge, like I'm talking 2 months + and thats with me using every single day 8 hours or more. It also charges very fast, so the very rare instance when I've had to charge it in the middle of the day, I can get 40% or more in like 15-20mins. I have had the connectivity thing on the new mouse though, never on the old one and i'm running a 2020 MBP.
Beach ball on first plug-in instance I’ve had that on all three of my m1 Mac mini’s and my last three Intel Mac’s. Pro tools only. I think it may be a pro tools bug.
Yeah that disk issue is probably Rosetta-related, I have the same SSD's and no problem at all using Logic in native mode with those. Definitely having to deal with other issues though, like projects taking forever to open, and massive CPU spikes/system overloads when hitting play or moving the playhead around in big sessions. For the fan, the noise can be lowered a bit by installing Macs Fan Control (free app), you can lower the base spinning speed to 1100 instead of the usual 1300+.
weird, since i'm using logic in native mode, the project loading times are ridiculously fast. 100-200 track projects loading up in 10 sec.. to be honest at this point for me the whole logic experience with a lot of third party plugins is more flawless than ever before on any intel machine.
@@mikloskovacs3734 are you on Logic 10.7.3? What happens for me is the plug-in loading window opens and the progress bar is stuck on klopfgeist (the metronome thing), and after waiting a while the project finally opens. Maybe it's due to some particular plug-ins causing issues. Those sessions have 100+ plug-ins, but still, it's taking at least as long as it did with my old iMac, which is really weird.
@@mikloskovacs3734 yeah I'm gonna do tests for sure, see if I can find the culprit(s) and replace them with something else. It's gonna take a while for all the software not to act as a bottleneck for the machine's actual capabilities.
@@davidbmixing plugins from these companies work without issue for me: UAD, Waves, plugin alliance, fabfilter, melodyne, izotope, soothe, sonnox, soundtoys, valhalla.. maybe this helps.
A lot of people seem to "hate" the magic mouse in general. I loved it since i first start using it! I have the second gen for awhile now. I'm happy with it. I have the Logitech MX Master 2 but it doesn't quite work for me. I don't know but i love the ease of use with the Magic Mouse. Also, for the charging, i mostly let it charge at night. It charges incredibly fast! It is absolutely stupid to have such a design that prevents you from using it while charging though. But if you are like me and you charge it over night, it doesn't really give much problems. Another option would be to buy a second one. So that you always have one charged and one in use... I think the Mac Studio is a great machine. But i'm still happy i made the purchase i did around 2-3 ago when i bought the 2019 Mac Pro. I have zero regrets. It's quiet, reliable, i have 96GB of RAM with 8TB and a 16-core CPU. Only thing lacking is my GPU which is only the AMD W5700XT with 16GB. The weird little quirky things that happen with the Mac Studio is one of the reasons why i don't want it right now. Though i must say, i work with Logic Pro X. So it might work a little better because its software from Apple. I don't know. Anyway, since the second gen of M1 has been revealed, i assume it won't be too long before we finally see that new Mac Pro as well. I'm pretty curious though i am completely fine with my Mac Pro for now.
I upgraded and had the exact same Mac Pro as you since 2015. I went with the Mac Studio M1 Ultra. Fantastic on large sessions in Logic Pro, where my CPU had been barely able to keep up. Now, the Mac Studio yawns, and says, "Is that all you got". So I do disagree a bit on the computing CPU gain. It's all about the core distribution and there is no comparison. Thanks.
My Mac Studio is having a problem with left-click renaming. In Music, left click just plays the song rather than renaming it. I can get it to rename about 10% of the time. Sometimes I can’t even move the tracks. If I try it will just play. I also can’t rename folders on the desktop…I’ve tried multiple mice & in system settings I’ve tried every level of double-click mouse speed. I have no problems on my wife’s Mac Mini. We’re both using Ventura, though I believe she has a slightly earlier version. Also, many times I’ll click an area up top to arrange by: artist or genre & it won’t do anything. I’ll have to click it 8 times or so for it to follow the command.
I wondered, I bought the M1 laptop as soon as it came out as well, but it wasn’t my daily driver for music production, so I didn’t have any of these issues with it. Thanks for the comment!
@@ColtCapperrune No problem man, seems like you kind of figured that out yourself tho. I had to deal with Rosetta for almost 2 years. Way too long if you ask me but that's how these things work. I work in Logic so thankfully I've been native for almost a year. Just wait till you can switch off Rosetta hahaha. It gets even faster. :)
The inability for protools to record to your external drive is likely a permission issue. Your external disk has open read permissions, but something is wonky with your write permissions. You either need to grant write permissions on the drive across the board, or grant protools permission to write to the external drive.
It could be a disk permissions problem. You may have to go to Mac OS settings to add that drive. Also I had an issue with my magic keyboard not connecting. I called AppleCare and tech support stepped me through deleting the preferences that solved my connection issues.
The SSD issue could be a result of a usb version (the whole usb 3.1/3.2 x1/2 is a MESS). The M1 chip supports usb 4.0/ thunderbolt 3 best, so I'd recommend making your own with an Intel certified thunderbolt 3/usb 4.0 enclosure. It should work better, allow for over double the speed of your current SanDisk drives, and will be upgradeable and reparable.
My little brother loves the Studio for Graphic design. He designed a Kambucha bottle. I have the M1 and the Studio is on my list but I gotta get a LYNX Interface. Time to upgrade from the Apollo.
First time watching one of your videos. Very well done, good vibe, and informative. Not sure a lot of your videos will be right up my alley since I work minimally with audio, but you got a new subscriber!
FYI, Mac Studio two front USB-C ports vary between the Mac Studio M1 Max and Mac Studio M1 Ultra. On the Max the two front ports are USB up to 10Gb/s while on the Ultra they are 40Gb/s transfer rate. Only the Ultra uses Thunderbolt4 on the two front USB-C ports. This appears to be a limitation of a single Max SoC processor while the Ultra has two Max SoC's on the same processor die therefore adding support for more Thunderbolt channels.
Just a tip for the gen 1 Magic Mouse. Getting rid of the battery cover made my connectivity issues and dropouts disappear almost completely (except of course when the batteries start getting low on power). Hope this helps.
I had issues getting Native Instruments, Spitfire, Spectrasonics, etc sound libraries to be stable and install..and Logic was not happy at all.. Discovered that my external SSD was formatted as Apple Journaled. Checked the docs at Spitfire & Spectrasonics and they strongly recommended reformatting the drives to APFS for Apple Silicon machines running Monterey. Once I did that...all of my issues with my Mac Studio vanished.
Just bought one of these SSD drives for my new Mac Studio... for external Samples & Sound Libraries drive. 24 hours later I'm thinking about returning it becasue it gets so dang hot just sitting there. Probably have to go back to the trusty OWC SSDs.
Fwiw, I use the same SSD SanDisk drives for work drives as well. I’m using an M1 Mac Mini with Pro Tools in Rosetta and haven’t had the same issue with recording or mixing. I have had the plug-in initiation issue and the 1st gen Magic Mouse connectivity issue. 🤷🏼♂️
I have the same issue especially with hardrives. If I have ANY thunderbolt 2 device connected there are tons of hardrive issues. If no thunderbolt 2 devices are connected it is fine.
Hi Colt really great video! Could you please make a video that explain how to work on external hard drive, and everything related to external hard drive for music production, recording, mixing, plugins, SSD etc... Thank you!
I agree that old mouse has become a nightmare i changed mouse! I agree the only good thing on it is the way with fingers to move from pages. Pro tools always had trouble forever .thank you for the feedback for the mac studio
Other problems with Mac Studio: -why is there no headphone jack up front? -why no USB A ports up front? -Every USB flash drive is USB A! -Boot Camp and 100% Windows software is gone
-Why is there no microphone...Can you name one other Apple product lacking a mic? It's called "Studio" yet has no mic. My Apple Watch has a mic. My Apple TV Remote has a mic...but not my Mac Studio....?
Bro … i can’t take this shit anymore First off : i am a mac book pro 15 inch mid 2014 owner and an Iphone XR owner and i love them ! BUT : Apple needs to be taught a lesson and that lesson needs to be taught soon !!! People need to stop buying demonic Apple products for 1 year or maybe 2. Straight , no macs , iphones , heck , no adapters nothing!!!! Let me Explain : i love using logic pro BUT!!! they soldered the SSD onto the motherboard ever since 2016. I recently went to an apple certified repair shop and asked them : what if i get an m1pro macbook pro and as soon as the warranty expires , the ssd fails me . How do u go about repairing it ? They said it’ll cost me a hefty sum cause they replace the whole board. I was like WhAT? Like dayum, replace 5-6-7 parts just cause one don’t work , there ain’t nuthin logical about that . Another point is : on windows : 1tb ssd --> roughly 110$/€ . 2 tb --> roughly 2x 110 $/€ . @demonic-apple --> 2tb costs 800$ …?!?! What ? And you can t even replace it. I have a dream : :” that for a few years, straight up nobody buys any apple products , not even an adapter . Let s see those execs shit their pants and start asking questions like : “FUCK?!?!?… what are we doing wrong? We used to make all those profits and now nothing ? I don’t understand. It’s fucking marketing , i knew those idiots would fuck it up …..” To me they seem like money hungry apes that can not quench their thirst for money . It walks along the lines of unethical . There s isn’t even any real advantage to having the ssd soldered. I ve heard people say that it s faster . No it s not . We have the internet . Anybody can check the numbers and the speeds of different ssd s out there. Oh and just to put the cherry on top : iphone 13 : amazing processor and hardware but it s rocking the lightning port 🤣 usb 2.0 speeds . Apple 🍎 i really hope u get yours and the EU puts you in place with regulations on ports and on right to repair . They got hundreds of billions offshore like liquidities …. This got outta pocket a long time ago … out of their consumers pockets to be exact. They answer to no one and lack moral discernment . Take care y’all 😃🙏🏻🤗. But the processors are amazing and I respect the integration of the cpu and gpu and RAM 🐏 . Cause that actually wields a big boost in performance. I hope somebody serves them good .. money hungry apes 🦧. And now they updated the look of the macbook air but haven’t done so for the the macbook pro 13 inch . If i buy the pro 13 inch i get the same old ass design … but the new chip … what ?! 😅😅 whass wrong with them ? They have such twisted marketing strategies to milk their consumers of money as much as possible . They did the same thing with iphones too. While others bring new design to the table , Apple holds on to the same design , probably because they don t want to invest the money yet. Eventho it s one of the few companies that has And now they ship different iPhones with different chips. oh my God bruh... let's start this movement ... i m begging y'all let us all stop buying their products for 1-2-3-4 years :)))))) it would be amazing.
I use Studio One 5 and I use an m.2 ssd with an enclosure as an external drive because I put all my plugins in there for portability (using pro max macbook). I have no issues with recording or mixing straight into it or out of it, but I do have the first instance beachball for a good minute thing as well. So I think it rules out the protools issue, hopefully everything becomes native and consistent soon!
Get the track pad! soooo tactile and you can leave it plugged in. It's the best ever once you get used to it. sounds like you would like it though since you like the scrolling feature on the Magic Mouse.
Colt, on your Magic Mouse. Make sure there isn't oxidation of the battery contacts. I've seen it cause drops and flaky behavior. Take a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol and clean the nickel colored internal battery contacts. Then hit it with a dry swab and make sure it's super shinny. You do that and you should be good to go. I use that mouse as my backup when I have to charge one belly up. 🙂
Magic Mouse 2 - WRONG!!!! Read Adam Gotheridge's post below. "If you run out of battery, you can charge it for a couple minutes and go for another hour." It's a brilliant design/wonderful mouse with REALLY BAD marketing by Apple not letting people know about this rather important fact!
I bought mine in March 2024. Nearly every single work day (about 10 hours) I will have a HARD FREEZE. Half the screen will turn bright green. Then a few seconds will pass. Then the other half will turn bright pink/magenta. Then it will IMMEDIATELY reset. The internal speaker sometimes pops. A second issue I have is it appears this machine just doesn't multitask very well. I mainly use Fusion 360, and if I am rendering in it and then switch over to safari to do some reading while I wait, the rendering in Fusion will slow to a crawl...not quite pause, but very slow. Same thing for Final Cut, Compressor, or any task.
I had a 2017 fully loaded iMac 24 inch. Would run a luna session with quite a bit going on and it would be running at 95 to 100%. Got the new Max studio 64g ram and it runs the same session at about 35%.
But can the Max Studio run Boot Camp with near 100% Windows compatibility? Also, many Photoshop and Premiere plug-ins don't work natively on M1, so you will have to run Rosetta.
The "First Instance" thing happens across Mac products... happens on Mac Mini as well... that is when we’re talking about audio apps... logic, garage band, audacity
The old Magic Mouse uses older Bluetooth 2 or 3. The new one is Bluetooth 4. Either way, go with a Magic Trackpad. Opens up access to more gestures and the charge plug is on the back of it. And now they are available in black without having to buy a Pro Mac desktop.
Same issue I am getting on my NVME drive on a chassis. All the other drives work on the Mac Studio, it gives me an error when I hit record. What's odd is, my NVME drive works well with my Mac Book Pro 2.5ghz i5 and at the studio's Mac Pro.
Thank you for this! I work in AVID Media Composer, so hearing that it runs AVID systems ok is good to know. I have a 2012 MacPro that I think I finally hit the "need to upgrade" wall lol... Side note I was an avid (pun intended) fan of the magic mouse for years too! when I noticed that my G1 wasn't connecting as well as it should I tried the LogiTech MX Master series and lawdy it was an incredible change over. If you're ever looking to make a change, I can't recommend that mouse enough, especially if you like the magic mouse. Cheers my friend!
What you were describing was exactly the same issue I had years ago with Avid Media Composer. Since PT is an Avid product, I wonder if this solution makes any sense: but I have zero PTs knowledge. The solution back then was to in-check a settings box within the application that reads: “Filter Drives based on resolution.” Is there anything remotely similar in the settings?
The sad issue can be fixed by fully formatting the drive. You then have to set up the drive in an pro tool menu where it has access to record onto it instead of just using it as a playback hard drive
Oh god, you said Rosetta. That kills EVERYTHING. Even your speed. Companies need to catch up. That’s a huge baddie bad bad with plugins and the Mac studio.
technical problems are a totally new level of hell for me as composer and mixer. It is hard one single week without any issues. Today is EastWest, tomorrow SanDisk, on Saturday is Kontakt, then comes Waves with soke license problem. And after everything works Logic Pro automatically reassigns all my cs to wrong buttons. In the days of peace you are updating your template with insane amount of disorganized samples, or organizing plugins. Happy producing!
Bummer….all of this makes me think i will sit on my 2012 Cheesegrater Protools HD Native rig just a little longer. M1 is very tempting but i think i will give it till the end of the year.
Thank you so much Colt, this video was very helpful to me. I really wanted to make the plunge yesterday to buy one, but I'll wait a bit before switching from my Windows PC i9 which still works fine. I have zero issues. I have two MacBook from 2012 and love the system and the audio aggregate thing that we don't have on Windows, at least natively. There are too many audio plugins that aren't still Silicon compatible for now, so I'll wait and save my money in theses difficult times and that's thanks to you 😄
Hey man! If i'm not mistaken, Gen 1 Magic Mice were supposed to quit working many operating systems back. So maybe snag a gen 2 used off ebay. Also, I've been on the 2nd one FOREVER, and the bottom charge is no biggie. I had the same worry you did about it! But, a 5 min charge is enough for a few hours. An overnight charge lasts a LONG time.
I have had issues with external SSD drives before on my old iMac before moving over to Mac Studio. The only thing I would say is to ensure that it is formatted for use on a Mac. Not for Windows or a mixture of the two. This fixed my issue as I was seeing terrible performance and lots of errors.
Cubase user here, similar issues. 1st plugin load slow, yup. The buzz from my bryston to the ns10's is about just as loud as the fan, which is sooo low. Automating UAD plugs will cause daw crash here and there. Overall though, really happy with it
I had almost the same problems with my Mac Studio. Almost because : it just killed my external SSD when i plugged it into the Mac Studio (there are tons of forum posts about it, even on Apple one). Samsung SSD in a Sabrent enclosure. Samsung said it's not supposed to be used in an enclosure, so it's not their problem. Sabrent said it wasn't their firmware. And Apple ignores this problem. So I bought another drive enclosure (OWC one) and now it works (just had to restore a backup I had). And about "old" keyboard/mouse, my problem was even more ridiculous than yours. On the final installation phase, the Mac Studio just could not detect my old apple bluetooth keyboard. Just NO WAY to detect it. I had to plug a USB PC keyboard into it to finish the installation. And after, I could add the keyboard from the OS. Just not from the installer. I had to reinstall the OS at some point, same problem : no keyboard again. I totally agree with you about the 2 major issues :)
I use a Trackball with Apple Track Pad. Try switching to Thunderbolt 3 or 4 cables as they cover all the standards of USB. Also, if your hard drives have special software check to see if there is a firmware update for it.
The placement of the charging port is terrible. However, you can get a month’s worth of heavy daily use on a full charge, and a week’s worth from charging for 15 minutes.
It isnt the studio with the old magic mouse. My sons iMac is a few years old and his gen one magic mouse kicks out a lot. Try it again and watch, happens when batteries are below about 60%.
Here’s a question: so of all the videos I have seen pushing these machines, there are a few things people mostly don’t approach: for one, stress tests with actual big orchestra templates using dsp-hungry plugins like SampleModeling or AudioModeling that use a lot of CC’s (as opposed to “here are 70 instances of a Logic marimba through an eq, a compressor, an amp sim and a reverb, none of which would be used by most pro users, playing the same notes in every track ”, which doesn’t really show anything useful; and for another, how the DAW performs at low latency with one of these sessions. The thing is, I disagree that computers have been great long enough for the difference not to be dramatic: I have a 2013 Mac Pro and I know what it can do, but it can’t do a whole lot at low latency because it’s just not fast enough. So what I want to know is: can the Studio do a heavy VI session of full orchestra with modeling instruments and great reverbs at a 128 buffer or better?
@@noway8233 well-spotted. I do this for a living, and I run a pretty stable system writing full-orchestra score. I know there are faster machines out there, and I have a great many SSD’s. I am looking for more demonstrations that correspond to real-world-use situations that are like mine. If ‘you’ know of any, post a link - I’m not finding any.
I can explain your issues :
1) the drive issue is a permission issue. You can fix it if you change the permissions of the main folder and folders underneath on your external drive to all users as read and write. Since external devices don’t work as a root folder permissions are necessary.
2) Plugin loading in Pro Tools… You probably work in Rosetta Mode and that’s why you have this long loading times. If you would try a native DAW, you will not see any issues like that.
3)Mouse issue: put some paper in it since the battery issue is an old one… the new Magic Mouse would be the better solution… one charge is enough for a month and you don’t have connection issues at all.
4) you can fix the fan „issue“ with an external tool and set the fan rpm to 1000-1100 without having issues under max load. You can use software like Macsfancontrol for it.
what the fu*k about having a new device then if you have to use it this way?
@@freaky425 probably because it is much faster then any Intel machine ?! Also the Pro Tools issue will be fixed as soon as Pro Tools release a native Apple silicon version. The write permission issue with the external device can be fixed in under 20 seconds. Aswell as the fan control story. I don’t regret switching to Apple silicon and I had the 28 core Mac Pro aswell so I can compare it quit good I would say. 90% of the VSTs are also Apple silicon native and I don’t have any issues working with Studio One.
@@prodby430 cool! I am still with 2018, 32 Ram touch bar, and just observing when to spend 5k$ again. I think that mixing skills helps a lot, since we use too much unnecessary fat and this affects performance as well. A simple panner and the Ozone Elements does wonders , for example , if the source sounds already good
@@prodby430 finally, someone on youtube talking sense 👏
@@prodby430 Is it fast? Yes. But ANY Intel machine is a stretch. Given the cost will be a bit high (though competitive to a $9,000 Studio), you can easily build a 32-core, 256GB RAM intel system that would crush an M1 Ultra Studio for about $12,000.
Here's the kicker: You can build an AMD 64-core Threadripper system that will absolutely obliterate ANYTHING the Studio can do. For $8,000.
I'm running both Logic and Studio One 5 and haven't had any issues with plugins loading or SSD drives. The Mac Studio blows away my previous Mac and it was a great machine.
Glad things are going smoothly for you!
@@ColtCapperrune I’m not in Rosetta, most of my plugs I use have been updated and work on monterey. Rosetta was giving me some trouble.
@@claymillsmusic Clay how are you liking Studio One?
I absolutely love it, there's no way I'm going back to Pro Tools!
@@watchtheskies I’m loving it. The workflow is incredible. Loving it more than Logic or Protools now.
Tip for the mouse problem: I used to have connectivity problems with my old Magic Mouse. It was a problem with the batteries having too much space in the battery compartment. A piece of paper folded a few times wrapped around the batteries resulted in a lot less connectivity problems for me.
I've heard this as well. The advice I got was to put small pieces of tin foil at the battery poles. I don't know how paper works, as it's generally not conductive!
@@svenisaksson3970 Great. I don't put the paper at the poles, but around the sides of the batteries. It more to hold them in place. So conductivity is not an issue in this case.
Same here, a piece of paper fixed it.
I was having the same hard drive issue on both my Mac Studio and Intel Mac Mini when I updated to the latest pro tools. I was prompted by PT to set my hard drive to “R” (which I think literally means record lol 😒) inside PT via the workspace (I think) to able to record to my drive. That solved it for me.
unrelated-but..... a few years ago I was working on a broadcast automation system where we replaced a VTR with a mini server, for tapeless delivery of commercials. the vendor promised us that the server would emulate a VTR in regard to its remote control protocol.... but being tapeless, when the automation tried to cue the clip in the server, the response was almost instantaneous- "I'm cued", which threw an exception in the automation because no VTR on earth ever cues instantly- it has to back up the tape to the right frame & that takes a finite time, often several seconds.
so..... maybe.... with the better buss speeds in the new mac, maybe protools is getting a 'write' acknowledgement back from the drive sooner than it is expecting.
just a thought. have yyou raised a ticket with PT?
Dump Pro Tools and get Reaper
@@garymorrison1009 is absolutely right.
1:35 if you open a workspace in reaper and then open volumes, you will see all your drives. For drives you want to write/record to, make sure to select the R in front of the mode column. R makes it so you can record to them!
I have 2 Mac Studios in use for different aspects of production. One of them had some issues out of the box, specifically with USB ports. Some devices would work on the front USB-C ports but not on one of the rear USB-A ports. Other devices would work on the USB-A ports, but not the front USB-C ports. The other Mac Studio did not have those problems and all devices have worked on all ports. I took the malfunctioning Mac in for service and they replaces practically everything: Logic Board (10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 32GB), USB-C Ports (front), and
I just bought a mac studio, the basic 32 memory 500 gb and a samsung solid 1tb external harddrive and I have never been so happy, I use logic, luna, melodyne studio and I have no problem recording everything on the external harddrive.
Hey Colt, long-time ProTools user here and also an Avid Certified Instructor for ProTools. You might want to check the Disk Permissions IN Protools. Navigate to Window -> New Workspace -> Default and open the Workspace browser. Check if your SSD drive you are using to record on has the permissions set to "R" and not "P". Occasionally, PT might glitch out and change the permissions for whatever reasons. I've experienced it once even though my settings were all the same and I didn't change anything in PT. I hope this eliminates the possibility of that setting in PT itself. This will prevent anything from recording onto the disk itself in PT if the permissions are changed from "R" to "P".
You should get the rechargeable mouse Magic Mouse 2, it takes few minutes to charge if you are in a hurry, when Magic Mouse is fully charged it can run for about a month or more between charges. I was thinking the same way, but when I got it few years ago it proved it wasn’t a big issue. Thanks for your video.
Hard drive issue: There is the possibility for some users (although I’m sure you checked this) that they simply need to define the drives in ProTools as record drives. PT doesn’t automatically record to all drives. This would be evident to someone who finds that recording works on the internal drive but not an external drive.
I had that problem at first too, but my drive kept disconnecting, I tried replacing the USB-C read cable and it worked for a week then started happening again, replaced it again and it just started happening. IDK what the hell is going on or if I have a bad dock but this seems like rosetta SoC thing. Somethings fucky
I've recorded with an M1 Max laptop to that exact Sandisk drive
I am running Luna and it’s been flawless so far. Loving mac studio. All my programs and samples are on the onboard drive 2G and then I have a fast SSD outboard drive for song/music files. Also got 64 gigs or Ram. I’m unstoppable. Lol
ProTools is definitely janky running on M1 because it's in Rosetta. Some plugins, won't work properly at all (e.g. Acustica). Who knows when Avid will get their sh*t together... they're already way behind by not being M1 native and I don't even know if it will happen this year, all this for the annual price of having access to updates, but not this, the most important thing they should be focusing on.
Man, I guess I was childishly assuming Pro Tools would be/was straight M1 (non-Rosetta) ready by now. That's disappointing as hell lol
Wasn't Rosetta supposed to work seamlessly? I would blame Apple for this, as not every developer can keep up with major breaking changes in the OS every year. For example, some controllers that require drivers still use the same driver for Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 (that's 10 years of compatibility!), meanwhile on MacOS it needs 4 different versions for Mojave/Catalina/Big Sur/Monterey. Yes, Apple changed the processor architecture, but it is their job to ease the transition while 3rd party developers catch up.
I have the mac mini m1 with 8gb or ram and Pro tools Runs amazing on it with all kind of plug-ins and I also have an external solid state 1tb drive where I have all my projects and I’ve never had any issues
@@lumer2b It does work seamlessly but there can still be some randomness from the program itself. Apple also did make it very easy for developers to migrate over. Many moved pretty quick, some took longer, like Ableton just became M1 native earlier this year. They have for sure made it easy for developers. What controllers are you talking about? If it is usb class compliant there is not driver at all.
@@seancca Roland synths aren't class compliant and need drivers, one new driver every year for MacOS, same driver forever for Windows. Yamaha needs driver for full functionality, same thing. Class compliant devices were even worse: Native Instruments Traktor DJ could get the hardware damaged by just connecting to a Big Sur machine (M1 or not) back when Big Sur was released, and Komplete Audio interfaces misbehaved. They are all class-compliant and the problem took a few months before Apple fixed it. Some docks could brick MacBooks because of a macOS bug. Apple keeps pushing a new version every year and releases a product that is not even pre-beta quality and has all kind of issues with software that worked fine before, that's not being developer friendly. I'm still running Catalina on my Mac, meanwhile Windows 10 which was supposed to be shit never had this kind of issues with my hardware.
Running a 2014 Mini, the Magic Mouse gives me the same disconnecting issues you’re having. Thankfully it’s not my studio machine, and it’s good to know it’s a widespread issue instead of isolated.
What I've discovered on my Mac Studio is that the rear Thunderbolt/UBS ports are defective. They cause consistent drop out, freezes, crashes and more fun stuff. The front ports are All Good, but the rear ports are a disaster. And I need those ports to work perfectly. This is my first new Mac in many years (I have so so so many Macs but in the last few years Apple appeared to lose their way and I ended up building my own Hacks instead to great effect), but have been wanting a reason to move back to their hardware - and the M chip was it. Unfortunately, after many dozens hours of tests and searches, I've concluded this is a very common issue, not likely related to software and despite how much I want to love it and boy do I ever love the M chip and GPU engines, my Studio is ...well much more a Lemon than an Apple.
I would check to see what you have them formatted as. APFS is the best formatting for the newer Macs and M1. I have the Samsung f5 thunderbolt 3 no issues.
the plugin loading up delay is rosetta. once its in it loads instant each time. That should go away once PT is native.
I have both Magic Mouse generations, and two Mac Studios, one at home and one at work. I have connectivity problems ONLY when using the new Magic Mouse at work. I never understood why!
Returned mine, I run logic and it didn’t seem any faster than my I7 mini. I couldn’t get any session to play without glitches. Never had a hard drive issue, I’m running vectotech ssds.
Try the new Magic Mouse. Using all day, battery lasts about a month. If you run out of battery, you can charge it for a couple minutes and go for another hour. Maybe completely charges in an hour. The old one like you have, it used to feel like the batteries were always going dead. Also the pairing, plug it into the usb cable and it's paired. Want to use it on another Mac, same thing and it only takes a couple seconds.
Magic mouse is the most unergonomical mouse ever made.
@@soulscape5083 Stated as fact! I think the point was that he already used the Magic Mouse and I just suggested the rechargeable version.
Guarantee you that beachball issue on the plug-in initial instance is a graphics issue. Could be Rosetta related but Try changing your display color settings to sRGB. That’s what PT likes best.
Weird. Been recording to and mixing from that exact drive in Pro Tools since day one with my Mac Studio (about 5 months now), and I’ve never had an issue. Maybe it’s a disk permissions setting in Pro Tools?
I purchased the apple Mac Studio M1 last summer and since the Sonoma updates I have had nothing but trouble in pro tools studio. Now following the latest pro tools update I am unable to record anything without it crashing on me telling me I’ve run out of CPU power. It’s so frustrating because my recording has ground to a halt. You mentioned the external drive I was wondering if I should unplug it when recording? I notice that the computer is storing songs weird. By default it stored to documents and another strange thing is that it is storing some bass guitar waveform parts for instance outside the folder for the song it should be in. I’m new to a Mac. I assumed that switching to a Mac would solve all my problems but I was wrong I’m back to square one! I have done everything from backing up my mixes to deleting the things I’m not working on and emptying my bin but to no avail. Depressed and frustrated 😭
I switched to a Logitech MX Master 3 mouse on my M1. Includes a horizontal scroll wheel as well as the good old vertical scroll. You can also program for example a few favo shortcuts, and assign them to one of the buttons. Best feature i like actually is the thumb-rest, which i didnt see coming to be honest. Not dragging your thumb over the desk does make a difference, really. Might want to give it a try. Oh and it is rechargeable with a usb-c cord, while you still continue to use it. The only downside i found is to use it with another machine (you can switch between 3 macs for example) you need to press the button on the - drum roll - bottom. Duh! But if you're not a frequent switcher, you should be fine.
I have the same mouse and absolutely love it!
Same and it’s great! Only downside I experience is that the Logitech app is not m1 compatible yet so the mouse has an ever so slight delay….
I’ve been using an MX Master 3 for 3-4 years now (previously using MX Master 2) and took delivery of a Studio Max a few weeks ago (Trashcan MacPro previously). No mouse issues that I can see and I use it 10+ hours a day. The Studio has a few minor quirks that I’m sure will be rectified once Adobe and Apple get in sync. After waking the Studio from sleep mode, my Adobe programs will have the tops of the windows in the center of the screen and it’s tool panels splashed across my second monitor. I don’t know if that is a Studio thing or just an M-chip thing but it’s only the Adobe programs. Also having fun tuning in the sleep/wake settings.
I have a Mac Studio with M1 Max. I'm using a Magic Mouse 2 that I used for 5 years without issue with my old iMac. I'm also using a non-Apple Bluetooth keyboard. A couple of times in the last week, I've had both the keyboard and the mouse disconnect at the same time, and them seconds later, reconnect. Seems to me it's a Bluetooth hardware or driver issue with the Mac Studio. It's not a show-stopper, overall I love this machine, but it's getting annoying. And puzzling to me is it didn't start happening until I'd had the machine for over 3 months.
I have the exact same issues. I noticed the Apple Touch ID Keyboard was particularly laggy when reading a fingerprint. I've been working with the Apple Support team for over a year now and they're unable to figure it out. Maddening...
@@SoundStudio412 Well it's been at least 2 years now, and it's been quite a while since I've had the same issue, so maybe they fixed mine in a patch, yours sounds like it might be different. My experience with Apple support has been pretty dang good over the years, and while they aren't perfect, it's better than Microsoft, I feel for those poor victims of Bill Gates...
@@keithbrown9198 Yeah, I wish they'd been able to help me. I've sent more "DataCapture"'s to Engineering than I can count, and they've never once been able to help me figure out why a crash happened, or what's wrong with their Touch ID keyboard/Trackpad.
Thanks for the reply!
I do have the same things with some plugins, I guess these are the ones that are not M1 native, Rosetta is a bit of a pain imo. Except that, it runs very very well to me! The fan is not a problem in my case, my room is not so quiet, I can't barely hear the fan on day, on evening that is sometimes different (according to my fatigue and so). But yeah, I'm so glad I switched from an old mac mini to this M1 pro.
I think that is the problem. When the plugin with x86 instructions is loaded for the first time, Rosetta wil convert it to arm instructions, this wil take a few seconds. After that is is cached.
I agree with some of the comments below - PT could be the problem here. I have my Mac Studio using Logic, and a few external SSDs - SanDisk, Samsung, and G-Drive and no issues reading and recording to them. I think all my plugins (a lot of different brands) work in Logic Pro - no issues. After about a week of using I switch off Rosetta, and things run even smoother. I expected some plugins will not load but so far so good. I've heard issues with ProTools and M1 Macs so likely not a Mac Studio issue. The only issue I had was Bluetooth strength. Where I put the Mac Studio now is not a direct path to my MS BT mouse, and I found it "jerky" a lot of times. Never had this issue with my old iMac Pro.
⚠️ WARNING ABOUT MAC STUDIO
There are more then a couple problems. I own a Mac Studio and 64 gig ram system. It is full of bugs for music software, including video editing. It has turned into an absolute nightmare on various levels. Play back glitching and Looping when it’s not supposed to be Looping. System crashes that are never ending. Despite I have sent seven or eight system crashes now to Apple nothing has ever been resolved why my system keeps crashing. They’ve had a half a year to resolve this issue‼️
And the processor is easily overloaded once you start adding video software such as final cut pro. Even when you start a brand new music project that’s only one track, I get a message saying that the internal SSD is too slow. I receive that message frequently as it’s a real headache because then you’re music software no longer works. You have to close and reboot and hope for the best.
I use my Mac Studio about 50 to 70 hours a week. Had anyone done a genuine review of the problems that I have listed which are far more than listed here, as I actually use the Mac Studio nearly every day… I would’ve never bought one.
DO NOT BUY A MAC STUDIO UNTIL THE NEXT GENERATION COMES OUT IN EARLY 2023? I will be selling my current first generation when the next one comes out. Again do not buy this if you’re going to be using it for professional projects. Mac Studio cannot handle professional use. The problem is so bad that twin processors would never resolve all these issues.
DO NOT BUY A MAC STUDIO UNTIL THE NEXT GENERATION‼️
Consider yourself warned.
Upgrade your mouse to the Logi MX MASTER 3 FOR MAC. It has a scroll wheel by the thumb that you can make scroll left and right. Then up and down with the top scroll wheel. It also has 3 other buttons that I programmed to do a few other things.
For a VERY expensive bit of kit the Mac Studio is disappointing. I totally agree - the mouse charge port on the bottom is like having your fuel cap inside your exhaust pipe.
Video connector is so close to the USB cables I find I can't help but accidentally dislodge it when I'm pulling cables. Mouse connectivity is irritating - why Apple? WHY???
I see now why the call it the "Magic Mouse" - because it keeps disappearing!!!. :o(
Gotta be very careful to 'eject' any memory devices, like direct connect to my camera or when I take the chip and insert it directly to the Mac - it is just invisible - took me ages to figure you have to 'eject' it every time and then probably use Disk Utilities to "re-mount" it - and perhaps use the First Aid option first to access it at all. Then I had to rename the camera memory chip to avoid confusion with some volume called "untitled" that turned out to be what I think was the Mac's internal hard drive - which caused major confusion and darn nearly got itself erased in an attempt to get rid of the ghost.
I dunno what mac does to my android phone, but I had a heck of a job getting it to work normally on my PC after plugging it into the mac and then having to use Android File Transfer, though I realised years ago Apple wants to lock you in to their proprietary systems, like iPhone and hates talking to android devices. (They're only filing systems, for pity's sake) The more I notice this the less inclined I am to line Apple's bank accounts. I'd actually be more inclined to buy more apple products if they'd let me migrate progressively out of choice - not because I'm being extorted.
Admittedly, I am switching back to Mac after a long break, but it is an infuriating system after Windows. (truth be told they BOTH irritate me)
Take, for example, trying to sift out several sorts of files (from my insta 360 camera) there are jpgs and raw and insta's own standards but Mac seems to think if I want these sorted by 'type' that I am expecting to find that any picture is the same as any other - that's not what I wanted, so I had to use some control feature to sort by 'kind' ... even then it had like 2,000 files mixed up - luckily I realised there was a massive size difference, so I sorted by size and was able to separate the ones I wanted that way. For pete's sake - I can do this from DOS on a PC with "Dir *.jpg"
What I really miss is the simplicity of the bare filing system in Windows (or DOS / Command line) instead of having the bottleneck of having to go through iTunes and use 'Photos' to import videos from my iPad. or this "Synchronise" thing that I just don't want at all. I just don't work that way at all. Most of my tasks are unique and simply involve copying a batch of files - I'm not updating my music or calendar across several devices.
Also the constant pressure to sign up for iCloud is getting on my nerves. I don't actually do my computing on the move - so I don't need web storage (at a fee) I have a stack of external drives and anyway you can get a terrabyte or more on a memory chip these days - so why pay and have the bottleneck of uploading and downloading files that, potentially, could be hacked. I don't want my data all over the planet. Furthermore we 'normal' humans might not have unlimited broadband on tap, due to budget or living in the sticks - so it is not like being based in Apple HQ and treating the cloud as if it was bolted onto the back of your phone, ipad and mac. Anyways, I have free cloud storage already and rarely ever use it.
Then, because I bought an Apple they gave me 3 months Apple TV for Free... okay, I don't watch TV at all, (I don't even have a TV Licence) but I might have tried it - until I realised they want my Apple ID or Credit card to pay for something that is "free" - umm.. no thanks Apple.
I used to like Apple for loads of reasons and I go right back to the 6502-based Apple ][europlus - pre Lisa, pre Macintosh.. .but I don't know what drugs these computer designers are on these days - they've lost the plot.
Honestly? had I thought of it two days earlier I seriously was making enquiries about returning the system to get my money back. I've lost hours and hours researching to find "work-arounds" for simple, simple basic every day tasks.
Annoyingly I bought the Final Cut Pro licence when I purchased the Mac and I also used up my one remaining licence for Camtasia to migrate to my new Mac - so by the time I had sourced a few extra software tools there is a considerable investment I'd hate to lose by getting rid of it. I don't think I could live with the decision to lose hundreds of pounds by re-selling it so early, but it came down to a close call. I'm going to give it a bit longer - but I'm not happy.
Sure, it is powerful and fast - I'm already finding a 7x difference from my old i7 PC for doing photo & video processing and I love that, but day to day housekeeping is SO incredibly awkward it is extremely frustrating. Just about everything I try - it fights me. I spent more time trying to outwit it than I do getting on with my work. Thankfully, I'm retired now - or it would have gone through the window long ago, but what a massive cock up. I really do regret buying one now. I don't trust it any more and am compiling a growing list of little hacks and work-arounds. Its nuts.
Get a Time & Motion expert in amongst it and sort your lives out.
Oh yeah and only 2 remaining Apple stores in Scotland - bad news. That was nearly a show stopper for me.
Quick comment on the mouse. I have two mouses with the rechargeable USB. That way when one needs to be charged, the other one is already charged and I just connect it until my main mouse is good to go. It’s a pain. But there are no issues with it disconnecting. Keep in mind I am on an Intel processor with the iMac Pro
My fan speed runs at about 1300 rpm’s and I downloaded the free fan speed app and lower it to 1100rpm when I record. The fan is totally silent then and the temp never raises. I absolutely love my Mac studio.
Hey pal. I believe the plug-in issue is strictly PT related as I started having the same issues since upgrading to the newest version. Lag when loading up the first instance of a plug-in and then PA console strip plugins trigger the compression metering in PT without actually doing anything. Same issues with the mouse as I was using a v1 Magic Mouse. The Bluetooth in those older units just go downhill. Same thing happened to my v1 Magic Trackpad and I had to replace that.
Nah, happens on all daws
I have my Mac Studio running entirely on M.2 SSDs, aside from a HDD dock to access old PT sessions and fortunately had no such issue. That said, moving from a 2011 Mac Pro to the Mac Studio was not without some teeth grinding and second guessing my life choices. Most of my issues were random plugins sparking the pinwheel of death.
The first instance beachball is the Rosetta working to translate, once its translations done, it runs as native
Bought an M1 mini in April 2021 and it has issues when loading from SD cards I have to restart the mini before it recognises the card, the reader worked fine with my intel mini. Over 30 years using Mac’s and the M1 has had more issues in 15 months than the rest combined. Went through a period where the mini would freeze and shut down with out any warning
Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm going to show your post to the IT Manager at work. We were considering getting a few m1 minis for the art department, but it's just not worth all the headaches and compromises and frustration.
Ryzen or Alder Lake are super-fast, and everything works there without any issues.
I‘ve had massive disconnection problems with my magic mouse with my old 2014 mbp.
They disappeared when i changed the battery brand from a cheap one to duracell!
I have similar random disconnect that seem to be a battery with contactor issue.
I initially thought the same of the Magic Mouse 2 when I had to pick one up. Turns out they last an incredibly long time on a single charge, like I'm talking 2 months + and thats with me using every single day 8 hours or more. It also charges very fast, so the very rare instance when I've had to charge it in the middle of the day, I can get 40% or more in like 15-20mins. I have had the connectivity thing on the new mouse though, never on the old one and i'm running a 2020 MBP.
That actually sounds fine, thank you!
I still feel like practicality should come before looks when it comes to everyday hardware...
Beach ball on first plug-in instance I’ve had that on all three of my m1 Mac mini’s and my last three Intel Mac’s. Pro tools only. I think it may be a pro tools bug.
Yeah that disk issue is probably Rosetta-related, I have the same SSD's and no problem at all using Logic in native mode with those. Definitely having to deal with other issues though, like projects taking forever to open, and massive CPU spikes/system overloads when hitting play or moving the playhead around in big sessions. For the fan, the noise can be lowered a bit by installing Macs Fan Control (free app), you can lower the base spinning speed to 1100 instead of the usual 1300+.
weird, since i'm using logic in native mode, the project loading times are ridiculously fast. 100-200 track projects loading up in 10 sec.. to be honest at this point for me the whole logic experience with a lot of third party plugins is more flawless than ever before on any intel machine.
@@mikloskovacs3734 are you on Logic 10.7.3? What happens for me is the plug-in loading window opens and the progress bar is stuck on klopfgeist (the metronome thing), and after waiting a while the project finally opens. Maybe it's due to some particular plug-ins causing issues. Those sessions have 100+ plug-ins, but still, it's taking at least as long as it did with my old iMac, which is really weird.
@@davidbmixing yea i'm on 10.7.3. weird.. my guess would be that it's a particular third party plugin causing this
@@mikloskovacs3734 yeah I'm gonna do tests for sure, see if I can find the culprit(s) and replace them with something else. It's gonna take a while for all the software not to act as a bottleneck for the machine's actual capabilities.
@@davidbmixing plugins from these companies work without issue for me: UAD, Waves, plugin alliance, fabfilter, melodyne, izotope, soothe, sonnox, soundtoys, valhalla.. maybe this helps.
I have been getting the same issue with brainworks SSL plugins ever since I updated my iMac Pro to the OS Monterey 12.4.
A lot of people seem to "hate" the magic mouse in general. I loved it since i first start using it! I have the second gen for awhile now. I'm happy with it.
I have the Logitech MX Master 2 but it doesn't quite work for me. I don't know but i love the ease of use with the Magic Mouse. Also, for the charging, i mostly let it charge at night. It charges incredibly fast! It is absolutely stupid to have such a design that prevents you from using it while charging though. But if you are like me and you charge it over night, it doesn't really give much problems. Another option would be to buy a second one. So that you always have one charged and one in use...
I think the Mac Studio is a great machine. But i'm still happy i made the purchase i did around 2-3 ago when i bought the 2019 Mac Pro. I have zero regrets. It's quiet, reliable, i have 96GB of RAM with 8TB and a 16-core CPU. Only thing lacking is my GPU which is only the AMD W5700XT with 16GB.
The weird little quirky things that happen with the Mac Studio is one of the reasons why i don't want it right now. Though i must say, i work with Logic Pro X. So it might work a little better because its software from Apple. I don't know. Anyway, since the second gen of M1 has been revealed, i assume it won't be too long before we finally see that new Mac Pro as well. I'm pretty curious though i am completely fine with my Mac Pro for now.
I upgraded and had the exact same Mac Pro as you since 2015. I went with the Mac Studio M1 Ultra. Fantastic on large sessions in Logic Pro, where my CPU had been barely able to keep up. Now, the Mac Studio yawns, and says, "Is that all you got". So I do disagree a bit on the computing CPU gain. It's all about the core distribution and there is no comparison. Thanks.
My Mac Studio is having a problem with left-click renaming. In Music, left click just plays the song rather than renaming it. I can get it to rename about 10% of the time. Sometimes I can’t even move the tracks. If I try it will just play. I also can’t rename folders on the desktop…I’ve tried multiple mice & in system settings I’ve tried every level of double-click mouse speed. I have no problems on my wife’s Mac Mini. We’re both using Ventura, though I believe she has a slightly earlier version. Also, many times I’ll click an area up top to arrange by: artist or genre & it won’t do anything. I’ll have to click it 8 times or so for it to follow the command.
The studio was going to be my way back to Mac again but hearing many having these issues makes me scared.
Hey Colt! I've been on an M1 since they came out. A majority of what you are having issues with is due to Rosetta. At least the problems in ProTools.
I wondered, I bought the M1 laptop as soon as it came out as well, but it wasn’t my daily driver for music production, so I didn’t have any of these issues with it. Thanks for the comment!
@@ColtCapperrune No problem man, seems like you kind of figured that out yourself tho. I had to deal with Rosetta for almost 2 years. Way too long if you ask me but that's how these things work. I work in Logic so thankfully I've been native for almost a year. Just wait till you can switch off Rosetta hahaha. It gets even faster. :)
On the edge about a Mac upgrade from my iMac 2014 so this was very informative. Thanks!!!
The inability for protools to record to your external drive is likely a permission issue. Your external disk has open read permissions, but something is wonky with your write permissions. You either need to grant write permissions on the drive across the board, or grant protools permission to write to the external drive.
It could be a disk permissions problem. You may have to go to Mac OS settings to add that drive.
Also I had an issue with my magic keyboard not connecting. I called AppleCare and tech support stepped me through deleting the preferences that solved my connection issues.
On the SSD issue. Have you tried the front ports vs the back ports? The back are tb3 or 4 while the front is just usb-c.
The SSD issue could be a result of a usb version (the whole usb 3.1/3.2 x1/2 is a MESS). The M1 chip supports usb 4.0/ thunderbolt 3 best, so I'd recommend making your own with an Intel certified thunderbolt 3/usb 4.0 enclosure. It should work better, allow for over double the speed of your current SanDisk drives, and will be upgradeable and reparable.
Thanks!
@@ColtCapperrune no problem!
My little brother loves the Studio for Graphic design. He designed a Kambucha bottle. I have the M1 and the Studio is on my list but I gotta get a LYNX Interface. Time to upgrade from the Apollo.
First time watching one of your videos. Very well done, good vibe, and informative. Not sure a lot of your videos will be right up my alley since I work minimally with audio, but you got a new subscriber!
FYI, Mac Studio two front USB-C ports vary between the Mac Studio M1 Max and Mac Studio M1 Ultra. On the Max the two front ports are USB up to 10Gb/s while on the Ultra they are 40Gb/s transfer rate. Only the Ultra uses Thunderbolt4 on the two front USB-C ports. This appears to be a limitation of a single Max SoC processor while the Ultra has two Max SoC's on the same processor die therefore adding support for more Thunderbolt channels.
Just a tip for the gen 1 Magic Mouse. Getting rid of the battery cover made my connectivity issues and dropouts disappear almost completely (except of course when the batteries start getting low on power). Hope this helps.
I had issues getting Native Instruments, Spitfire, Spectrasonics, etc sound libraries to be stable and install..and Logic was not happy at all.. Discovered that my external SSD was formatted as Apple Journaled. Checked the docs at Spitfire & Spectrasonics and they strongly recommended reformatting the drives to APFS for Apple Silicon machines running Monterey. Once I did that...all of my issues with my Mac Studio vanished.
Just bought one of these SSD drives for my new Mac Studio... for external Samples & Sound Libraries drive. 24 hours later I'm thinking about returning it becasue it gets so dang hot just sitting there. Probably have to go back to the trusty OWC SSDs.
Fwiw, I use the same SSD SanDisk drives for work drives as well. I’m using an M1 Mac Mini with Pro Tools in Rosetta and haven’t had the same issue with recording or mixing. I have had the plug-in initiation issue and the 1st gen Magic Mouse connectivity issue. 🤷🏼♂️
I have the same issue especially with hardrives. If I have ANY thunderbolt 2 device connected there are tons of hardrive issues. If no thunderbolt 2 devices are connected it is fine.
Hi Colt really great video! Could you please make a video that explain how to work on external hard drive, and everything related to external hard drive for music production, recording, mixing, plugins, SSD etc... Thank you!
I agree that old mouse has become a nightmare i changed mouse! I agree the only good thing on it is the way with fingers to move from pages. Pro tools always had trouble forever .thank you for the feedback for the mac studio
Other problems with Mac Studio:
-why is there no headphone jack up front?
-why no USB A ports up front?
-Every USB flash drive is USB A!
-Boot Camp and 100% Windows software is gone
-Why is there no microphone...Can you name one other Apple product lacking a mic? It's called "Studio" yet has no mic. My Apple Watch has a mic. My Apple TV Remote has a mic...but not my Mac Studio....?
Bro … i can’t take this shit anymore
First off : i am a mac book pro 15 inch mid 2014 owner and an Iphone XR owner and i love them ! BUT :
Apple needs to be taught a lesson and that lesson needs to be taught soon !!!
People need to stop buying demonic Apple products for 1 year or maybe 2. Straight , no macs , iphones , heck , no adapters nothing!!!!
Let me Explain :
i love using logic pro BUT!!! they soldered the SSD onto the motherboard ever since 2016. I recently went to an apple certified repair shop and asked them : what if i get an m1pro macbook pro and as soon as the warranty expires , the ssd fails me . How do u go about repairing it ? They said it’ll cost me a hefty sum cause they replace the whole board. I was like WhAT? Like dayum, replace 5-6-7 parts just cause one don’t work , there ain’t nuthin logical about that . Another point is : on windows : 1tb ssd --> roughly 110$/€ . 2 tb --> roughly 2x 110 $/€ . @demonic-apple --> 2tb costs 800$ …?!?! What ? And you can t even replace it. I have a dream : :” that for a few years, straight up nobody buys any apple products , not even an adapter . Let s see those execs shit their pants and start asking questions like : “FUCK?!?!?… what are we doing wrong? We used to make all those profits and now nothing ? I don’t understand. It’s fucking marketing , i knew those idiots would fuck it up …..” To me they seem like money hungry apes that can not quench their thirst for money . It walks along the lines of unethical . There s isn’t even any real advantage to having the ssd soldered. I ve heard people say that it s faster . No it s not . We have the internet . Anybody can check the numbers and the speeds of different ssd s out there. Oh and just to put the cherry on top : iphone 13 : amazing processor and hardware but it s rocking the lightning port 🤣 usb 2.0 speeds . Apple 🍎 i really hope u get yours and the EU puts you in place with regulations on ports and on right to repair . They got hundreds of billions offshore like liquidities …. This got outta pocket a long time ago … out of their consumers pockets to be exact. They answer to no one and lack moral discernment . Take care y’all 😃🙏🏻🤗. But the processors are amazing and I respect the integration of the cpu and gpu and RAM 🐏 . Cause that actually wields a big boost in performance. I hope somebody serves them good .. money hungry apes 🦧. And now they updated the look of the macbook air but haven’t done so for the the macbook pro 13 inch . If i buy the pro 13 inch i get the same old ass design … but the new chip … what ?! 😅😅 whass wrong with them ? They have such twisted marketing strategies to milk their consumers of money as much as possible . They did the same thing with iphones too. While others bring new design to the table , Apple holds on to the same design , probably because they don t want to invest the money yet. Eventho it s one of the few companies that has
And now they ship different iPhones with different chips. oh my God bruh... let's start this movement ... i m begging y'all let us all stop buying their products for 1-2-3-4 years :)))))) it would be amazing.
I use Studio One 5 and I use an m.2 ssd with an enclosure as an external drive because I put all my plugins in there for portability (using pro max macbook). I have no issues with recording or mixing straight into it or out of it, but I do have the first instance beachball for a good minute thing as well. So I think it rules out the protools issue, hopefully everything becomes native and consistent soon!
Get the track pad! soooo tactile and you can leave it plugged in. It's the best ever once you get used to it. sounds like you would like it though since you like the scrolling feature on the Magic Mouse.
I had that problem with the drives as well in the studio. We had to format them to some mac format.
Colt, on your Magic Mouse. Make sure there isn't oxidation of the battery contacts. I've seen it cause drops and flaky behavior. Take a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol and clean the nickel colored internal battery contacts. Then hit it with a dry swab and make sure it's super shinny. You do that and you should be good to go. I use that mouse as my backup when I have to charge one belly up. 🙂
Magic Mouse 2 - WRONG!!!! Read Adam Gotheridge's post below. "If you run out of battery, you can charge it for a couple minutes and go for another hour." It's a brilliant design/wonderful mouse with REALLY BAD marketing by Apple not letting people know about this rather important fact!
I bought mine in March 2024. Nearly every single work day (about 10 hours) I will have a HARD FREEZE. Half the screen will turn bright green. Then a few seconds will pass. Then the other half will turn bright pink/magenta. Then it will IMMEDIATELY reset. The internal speaker sometimes pops. A second issue I have is it appears this machine just doesn't multitask very well. I mainly use Fusion 360, and if I am rendering in it and then switch over to safari to do some reading while I wait, the rendering in Fusion will slow to a crawl...not quite pause, but very slow. Same thing for Final Cut, Compressor, or any task.
In my opinion, the best mouse for creative works, design, music, is the Logitect MX Master 3.
I had a 2017 fully loaded iMac 24 inch. Would run a luna session with quite a bit going on and it would be running at 95 to 100%. Got the new Max studio 64g ram and it runs the same session at about 35%.
But can the Max Studio run Boot Camp with near 100% Windows compatibility?
Also, many Photoshop and Premiere plug-ins don't work natively on M1, so you will have to run Rosetta.
The "First Instance" thing happens across Mac products... happens on Mac Mini as well... that is when we’re talking about audio apps... logic, garage band, audacity
The old Magic Mouse uses older Bluetooth 2 or 3. The new one is Bluetooth 4. Either way, go with a Magic Trackpad. Opens up access to more gestures and the charge plug is on the back of it. And now they are available in black without having to buy a Pro Mac desktop.
Same issue I am getting on my NVME drive on a chassis. All the other drives work on the Mac Studio, it gives me an error when I hit record. What's odd is, my NVME drive works well with my Mac Book Pro 2.5ghz i5 and at the studio's Mac Pro.
Thank you for this! I work in AVID Media Composer, so hearing that it runs AVID systems ok is good to know. I have a 2012 MacPro that I think I finally hit the "need to upgrade" wall lol... Side note I was an avid (pun intended) fan of the magic mouse for years too! when I noticed that my G1 wasn't connecting as well as it should I tried the LogiTech MX Master series and lawdy it was an incredible change over. If you're ever looking to make a change, I can't recommend that mouse enough, especially if you like the magic mouse. Cheers my friend!
the problem with the hard drive that could not write data from ProTools is I guess the "access rights" for the specific external drive.
What you were describing was exactly the same issue I had years ago with Avid Media Composer. Since PT is an Avid product, I wonder if this solution makes any sense: but I have zero PTs knowledge.
The solution back then was to in-check a settings box within the application that reads: “Filter Drives based on resolution.”
Is there anything remotely similar in the settings?
The sad issue can be fixed by fully formatting the drive. You then have to set up the drive in an pro tool menu where it has access to record onto it instead of just using it as a playback hard drive
Mine is utterly useless now , Mac Studio stopped communicating with thunderbolt hardware
Oh god, you said Rosetta. That kills EVERYTHING. Even your speed. Companies need to catch up. That’s a huge baddie bad bad with plugins and the Mac studio.
Thanks - good stuff to know. This machine is on my list to upgrade to. Coming from a 2012 MacBook Pro, so yeah, it’s definitely time.
technical problems are a totally new level of hell for me as composer and mixer. It is hard one single week without any issues. Today is EastWest, tomorrow SanDisk, on Saturday is Kontakt, then comes Waves with soke license problem. And after everything works Logic Pro automatically reassigns all my cs to wrong buttons. In the days of peace you are updating your template with insane amount of disorganized samples, or organizing plugins. Happy producing!
Plug ins
I believe that Roseta is cross compiling the plug in. Inc rite compile it will catch the result and run it “semi native “
I’m waiting till things settle before I get a Mac Studio for now I’ll stick with my scooped up 2018 Mac Mini
Love the beach ball description ❤😂
Bummer….all of this makes me think i will sit on my 2012 Cheesegrater Protools HD Native rig just a little longer. M1 is very tempting but i think i will give it till the end of the year.
Have the same recording volume drive problem with 2013 Trash Can and Pro Tools
Thank you so much Colt, this video was very helpful to me. I really wanted to make the plunge yesterday to buy one, but I'll wait a bit before switching from my Windows PC i9 which still works fine. I have zero issues. I have two MacBook from 2012 and love the system and the audio aggregate thing that we don't have on Windows, at least natively. There are too many audio plugins that aren't still Silicon compatible for now, so I'll wait and save my money in theses difficult times and that's thanks to you 😄
Thanks for that update mate, good to hear about this topics. Props for the TH AR GMT, its a nice piece.
Apple’s mouses are a joke compared to the rest of their products. Logitech’s MX 3 mouse will change your life with Pro Tools
Have you considered the magic track pad? I love it for music and video production
Hey man! If i'm not mistaken, Gen 1 Magic Mice were supposed to quit working many operating systems back. So maybe snag a gen 2 used off ebay. Also, I've been on the 2nd one FOREVER, and the bottom charge is no biggie. I had the same worry you did about it! But, a 5 min charge is enough for a few hours. An overnight charge lasts a LONG time.
I have had issues with external SSD drives before on my old iMac before moving over to Mac Studio. The only thing I would say is to ensure that it is formatted for use on a Mac. Not for Windows or a mixture of the two. This fixed my issue as I was seeing terrible performance and lots of errors.
Cubase user here, similar issues. 1st plugin load slow, yup. The buzz from my bryston to the ns10's is about just as loud as the fan, which is sooo low. Automating UAD plugs will cause daw crash here and there. Overall though, really happy with it
I couldn’t get Sandisk formatted on M1 Max MacBook. Got crucial ssd instead.
Btw, people still use ProTools in 2022 ?
i've noticed all mac studio review videos are uploaded in 4K. lol! that's nice
I had almost the same problems with my Mac Studio. Almost because : it just killed my external SSD when i plugged it into the Mac Studio (there are tons of forum posts about it, even on Apple one). Samsung SSD in a Sabrent enclosure. Samsung said it's not supposed to be used in an enclosure, so it's not their problem. Sabrent said it wasn't their firmware. And Apple ignores this problem. So I bought another drive enclosure (OWC one) and now it works (just had to restore a backup I had). And about "old" keyboard/mouse, my problem was even more ridiculous than yours. On the final installation phase, the Mac Studio just could not detect my old apple bluetooth keyboard. Just NO WAY to detect it. I had to plug a USB PC keyboard into it to finish the installation. And after, I could add the keyboard from the OS. Just not from the installer. I had to reinstall the OS at some point, same problem : no keyboard again. I totally agree with you about the 2 major issues :)
I use a Trackball with Apple Track Pad. Try switching to Thunderbolt 3 or 4 cables as they cover all the standards of USB. Also, if your hard drives have special software check to see if there is a firmware update for it.
The placement of the charging port is terrible. However, you can get a month’s worth of heavy daily use on a full charge, and a week’s worth from charging for 15 minutes.
It isnt the studio with the old magic mouse. My sons iMac is a few years old and his gen one magic mouse kicks out a lot. Try it again and watch, happens when batteries are below about 60%.
Here’s a question: so of all the videos I have seen pushing these machines, there are a few things people mostly don’t approach: for one, stress tests with actual big orchestra templates using dsp-hungry plugins like SampleModeling or AudioModeling that use a lot of CC’s (as opposed to “here are 70 instances of a Logic marimba through an eq, a compressor, an amp sim and a reverb, none of which would be used by most pro users, playing the same notes in every track ”, which doesn’t really show anything useful; and for another, how the DAW performs at low latency with one of these sessions. The thing is, I disagree that computers have been great long enough for the difference not to be dramatic: I have a 2013 Mac Pro and I know what it can do, but it can’t do a whole lot at low latency because it’s just not fast enough. So what I want to know is: can the Studio do a heavy VI session of full orchestra with modeling instruments and great reverbs at a 128 buffer or better?
What? Yuo have a 2013 computer?? Any modern Computer (now 2021) will be better, just for the ssd (yuo have a harddrive),
@@noway8233 well-spotted. I do this for a living, and I run a pretty stable system writing full-orchestra score. I know there are faster machines out there, and I have a great many SSD’s. I am looking for more demonstrations that correspond to real-world-use situations that are like mine. If ‘you’ know of any, post a link - I’m not finding any.
And no, it’s not a hard drive on my Mac - it’s always been an ssd.