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Wondering how the Apple ARM transition is going to affect huge plug-in ecosystems, like DAWs and VSTs. This could go very poorly, with the effective loss of anything that isn't being actively developed and/or having to re-buy everything for ARM...
I just watched the Rosetta part of the Platforms State of the Union video, and everything hints at the Rosetta boundary being the process boundary. There was nothing at all mentioned or hinted at that would imply mixing arches within a process, not even with explicit shims.
So it sounds like any developers of in-process plug-in based software like VSTs are going to have to develop full out-of-process wrapper layers if they want any cross-arch compatibility at all, and I'm telling you right now that is neither free nor easy to make work well.
(it *can* work, I use LinVST which does that with wine on Linux for running Windows VSTs, but it's very dodgy and definitely has limitations and overhead and compatibility problems)
Wouldn't Rosetta take care of that?
I doubt Rosetta lets you mix native and emulated plug-ins in the same process. That is a generally unsolvable problem, especially if the ABIs aren't almost identical save for the instruction stream. And you wouldn't want to be using Rosetta on high performance DSP code anyway.
Yeah, I'm feeling that old PowerPC arch change from yore. That one HURT
This. Back then almost every DAW and plugin author bumped the major version number so that even existing ppc customers had to pay almost full price for the x86 version. It was a nightmare.
I'm wondering about the GPUs, personally. Is Apple going to use AMD GPUs with their new CPUs in next year's Mac Pro? Seems unlikely they'll ever bury the hatchet with NVIDIA.
I was wondering about egpu support...
Its the final thing that will kill off the Mac ecosystem.
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