Tl;DR there is no mixing architectures with in-process plug-in systems like VST. You will be running your entire DAW and all VST plug-ins under emulation (read: slower than on an older Intel machine) until you can get them *ALL* upgraded/replaced with ARM versions. Clean break.
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I fully expect a significant fraction of plug-in developers to do the ARM port as an upgrade or separate product, which means you will be re-buying some plug-ins. And plug-ins that are no longer being developed? Say goodbye to those once you switch to ARM mode.
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Apple is pushing their own Audio Unit plug-in system which runs out-of-process. They don't care about VSTs. You can only mix CPU architectures with AUv3 plug-ins.
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It *is* possible to wrap in-process plug-ins to be out-of-process (I do that on Linux to use Windows VSTs), but it is a finicky thing, reduces performance, and someone has to write the code, probably DAW authors if they want it to work *well* (it's meh on Linux)
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Got my Core i7 Mac Mini with 32 GB of memory and plenty of storage. Hope it'll get me a few years. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-3.2-late-2018-specs.html …
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Have you tried VSTs on the DTK? Curious what speeds are like... good thing I upgraded my main machine last year so it'll last till all this blows over (if it is as bad as you're assuming), I feel like it'd be a huge blow to their user base if this ends up being the case though.
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I'm not a macOS user (and I don't have a DTK). I'm just saying this because I have friends who are.
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What would you recommend? Currently debating to either extend my current workflow with a more recent Intel upgrade or take the plunge and cut Apple out before the AS clusterfuck starts. Either way it's gonna suck.
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That depends on your personal feelings towards Apple and the alternatives. I can't be the judge there, I do my DAW stuff on Linux.
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