grrrz wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:14 pm
you're right; and usually I don't really want to get the beta because I don't want to deal with the potential problems and also couldn't care less about new features (I still don't know or use most of live 11 features). But what's different this time is this beta add native support for M1 users; which is a huge deal; because it probably means a rather substantial performance boost and stability for those. But apparently it's on top of a lot of new features also. I mean I based my purchase of a M1 mac on the release of this beta version; and live is probably the latest DAW to get native support so I want to cut them some slack; but also it's getting long overdue.
I feel for you, but you're being unrealistic. It's not long overdue, betas can go on for months, and like I mentioned you really don't want something released early, typically if that happens it will take forever to release a bug fix for the problems they didn't catch, because obviously they do not want to get it wrong a second time and they go overboard a bit.
So without trying to be mean for no reason I would say you're basing your impatience on your desire to use the M1 Macs, not on the typical time it takes to roll out a new version or a typical beta time frame.
My experience with the rosetta version has been ok so far; but I have the occasional CPU spike (like for 4 seconds once in a while); and it also crashes a lot; but mostly when I close the program. The RAM usage is quite bigger than on my previous machine; not sure it's linked to rosetta though.
I bought the M1 MacBook Air a while ago and it's pretty cool, I've been super modest with Rosetta plug ins, only using Amplitube 5 and the Vienna Ensemble Pro plug in really. NI are a PITA with this sort of transition, so I haven't bothered. I love Kontakt, Reaktor etc. but they're terrible this way, if you were around for the PPC to x86 transition they flatly lied about being blindsided by Apple when Apple warned everyone for months. Personally I never even considered running Live as a Rosetta app, that completely kills most of the advantage of the M1, and I'm wary of completely having to replace every plug in in a song with native versions when they roll out.
In general M1 is bleeding edge, buying it means using products that are updated for it or dealing with spikes and other anomalies that a new architecture emulating an old one will bring.