Apple M1 - A Logic Pro User's Upgrade Guide

On the fence about upgrading from your Intel Mac to one of the new Apple Silicon Macs? Here's my journey and impressions of the new M1s.

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00:00 - Intro
1:27 - Apple's Migration Assistant
2:30 - Why I Chose Not to Use Apple's Migration Assistant
3:26 - How to Redownload Logic Pro From App Store
3:54 - How to Transfer Your Templates & Presets
4:59 - M1 First Impressions
6:30 - Opening Logic Pro in Native Mode
7:44 - How to Enable Rosetta 2
8:18 - Trying Open Projects with non-Native plugins in Native Mode
9:08 - Opening Projects with non-Native plugins using Rosetta 2
10:50 - Trade-offs of Native vs Rosetta 2
11:27 - Opening Native & non-Native plugins in Logic without Rosetta
12:26 - Any issues or problems with M1?
13:26 - Optimizing Logic Pro's performance on M1

[hansigutten]

I would love to see an updated video for this subject. How far have we got in the M1 transition?

[petrikaivanto]

I took the leap from an old MBP to Mac mini M1 in March and decided to install everything from scratch. I am very happy of the performance and can live with some plug-ins still not working native. Surprisingly many do, much more than I expected. I decided to get Antelope Audios Zen Go interface and it's really good, too.

[harwin]

Just found your channel from my recommendations. Bought my first mac a few weeks ago (M1 Air) and have been dabbling around with Logic Pro since I can now. Been using Ableton for about a year now, but I might switch to Logic if I like it enough. Your channels been super helpful learning all the ins and outs.

[teganmora]

waiting for the m1x dropping this fall!

[budgetkeyboardist]

Great tip about the processing threads! I was wondering about that. Thanks!

[Mark-vfop]

5:46 was that an overrun the crackling ont the bass sound

[DavidRojoCancun]

I find your mindset and point of view VERY useful. Thanks for this video. I'm about to transition to this MacMini from an 2013 iMac :D

[wglennhowells]

I bought an M1 mini the day THU Overloud (which I use in logic) had Native support. Absolutely love the M1 mini.

[Theusone]

Not all heroes wear capes, thanks for the in-depth knowledge and experience

[Keziapurrs]

I recently replaced my MBP '17 b/c it needed a new battery which was going to cost me $250 at the least. This, to me, justified purchasing the new Mac Mini M1. I specced it with 16Gb of Ram and a 512Gb SSD Drive. Unlike you, i used the Migration Assistant to expedite the transfer of information from the MBP to the Mini. I probably should've gone the route you took, but i didn't have any issues, and haven't experienced any problems that may have originated from the MBP. Reactivating my plugins was a pain in the butt and took about an hour, but it was well worth it. I'm loving my M1 Mac Mini and have no regrets about my transition from the MBP. Thanks for the video. Very informative and makes me feel even better about my purchase.

[customjohnny]

This is a fantastic video. I greatly appreciate your work man, keep it up! Thank you.

[CRASS]

Finally upgrading. Got a 16” MacBook Pro with M1 max. Going back and rewatching all the M1 videos. Just worried my old projects won’t open correctly in the M1 system

[dougsteel]

Been using Logic on an M1 MacBook air, tons of soft synths, complex reverbs, analogue modelling compression, saturation, about 20 tracks. No fan to annoy me, and it flies through it! Some plugins are causing problems, that's always been the issue with such a third party integrated application. Waiting for them to issue ARM native versions.

[kelvynification]

I’m using everything in Rosetta - 1500 plugins - took a while to install, re install, troubleshoot but after that all good. I would suggest waiting to work exclusively native until all plugins you own are ready for ARM.

[jeffagoddard]

Like you, I’ve got a lot of Novation devices and my projects incl a variety of 3rd party plugins. I’m glad your up and running, but I’m going to wait a while longer.

[timothyporr]

Wow, you did it again. I've been thinking about upgrading my Mac Mini, which will not run the latest version of Logic or Mac OS. Decision made, thanks!

[savvyeyemedia]

Hey Chris, Thanks so much for the info, you are just the best period!!!

[martinjmusic]

Thanks for this video!
Thought a few times about a cheap M1 Mac mini as my new main computer... but now I now that most of my Synths would require me to use always MainStage / Logic in Rosetta, it really makes now sense (for now) :)

[madzthomas]

Wow i needed this video, thanks alot! 🙏🏾

[doug]

I've also only need run 64 for I/0 Buffer! Amazing!!