macOS Sonoma: Everything Musicians Need to Know

With the release of Apple’s latest operating system, macOS Sonoma, numerous updates and add-ons have been introduced to improve the workflow and user experience of those of us using Mac laptops and desktops. What does it mean for you and every other musician? Sweetwater’s sound scholar, Mitch Gallagher, is here to give you a detailed breakdown of everything musicians need to know about working with macOS Sonoma. Check it out!  

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[adamstrachn]

We're getting my Pops an M2 Mac for Christmas so I can teach him to record and this was useful. Thanks so much Sweetwater ✌🏼

[dnalyen]

Running Bitwig and hundreds of vsts for 4 weeks, so far so good

[Rebbedude]

Really helpful. Thank you. I'm considering upgrading from Ventura to Sonoma too.

[michaeltrenier]

MITCH! I’m thinking of buying a new MacBook with Sonoma. I’m running Presonus Studio One MPC Native Instruments Maschine and Arturia Analog V collection mainly. Thanks for the video!

[blue_mountains]

Id love to upgrade my Mac but I upgraded to logic 10.8 and hit a major issue that turned out to be a compatibility issue with kontakt, but upgrading that fixed it but put me off upgrading my Mac for now

[thebrowns]

I have found that some of the programs in NI Komplete Kontrol do not work under OS Sonoma yet.

[BubbaSatori]

Nothing for audio, no need to “upgrade”. Wish Apple would go to a 2 year full point upgrade cycle. Yearly dot point updates are fine. Thanks for the info and the compatibility guides.

[BS-zchp]

If anyone uses Antares Auto-tune do not update it’s not available on Sonoma yet

[TheMysteriousOrgan]

This is all good but my M2 macbook updated to Sonoma on a restart without me intending it. Watch out for this.

[MrMorenoMusik]

Hi, my first time in ur channel, thks for sharing
I have a question, I has been trying to download a free trial from izotope ozone advanced 11
It look like it download, but it’s doesn’t open
It just keep telling me
To go to the same process
Over and over, my password nd then it looks it’s downloading but in the las window when’s it says finished after I click it, nothing happens. Is there any special settings that I need to do in my computer ? I hope u can help me. Thks 🙏🏻

[Ocho]

I used to use studio one on a daily basis but stopped for about two years or so, and now that I’m trying to use it again with my macOS Sonoma version I keep getting a yellow dot on the top right corner of the studio one interface that says microphone. Already check under privacy and security to make sure the button allowing access to studio one was on, and it is but still having issues with audio. 😢

[truckerray]

I was wondering if anybody would be able to help me. I have a MacBook Pro that I’d like to do some production and voiceover work with. Unfortunately, when I am monitoring my microphone over my headset, I am hearing not only the voice in my head but also a delay over the mic. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of that delay so I’m listening to my voice in real time?

[rickmalzyner]

Boss studio (software for rc5 looper) does not currently work :/

[PolymerJones]

LUNA gets sooo laggy on my fully spec'd M1 Macbook. I don't experience anything like it in Studio One, Logic or Ableton

[offthisworld]

Say that again.... Sonoma 14.4 and Ableton Live 12, what a disaster. Even Live 11 gives tons of crashes. I've stopped wasting time and uninstalled the Ableton world from my machines. Sonoma is running great! It's the daw that I mention here making life not any better at the moment.

[turtlefeet]

Yep, i did the mistake. My BBC orchestra from Spitfire crashes on me.

[adamwarren]

I'm about to update to Sonoma 14.6.1 but its not up on Avids Protools compatibility chart. Has anyone does this yet? Does it all work?

[hjorte.]

iZotope don't support Sonoma. Just a heads-up.

[ruddock]

I like mac but this is why i stuck to windows for music production, backwards compatibility!!

[adrianlara]

M1 Mac FL STUDIO keeps crashing. It’s been that way tho.