Reminder: if you're a Mac user and you do music production and are due for an upgrade, you'd better do that now. The Apple Silicon transition is *guaranteed* to be a complete clusterfuck for the DAW ecosystem.
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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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