Pete OrrallSo I am in a jam with forced upgrades for my #music #studio. Painful, really. My main workhorse is a #Yamaha #Montage 8. Since the release of the new Montage M, Yamaha has dropped support entirely for the first gen model. Its audio interface driver only supports up to #MacOS 14, but still works under 15.0. I receive daily warning messages that further OS updates will break it. Yamaha has stopped development on the driver.
To complicate things, I have an Intel #MacPro for which #Apple will be dropping support in the near future. It was and is only a matter of time. Due to the driver support issue I am forced to keep my Mac at OS 15.0.1. But wait, there's more...
If I upgrade my OS, then I risk breaking the driver and thus lose the capability o 32 channels of #audio and #MIDI over #USB. I use both the analog outputs and the USB, including feeding DAW tracks back into the #synthesizer for additional real time processing. My entire workflow, which I have developed since investing in the MacPro, *will* break and projects which I have started will not be completed. Period.
if that isn't painful enough, the New Yamaha Montage M8X is $5,000. While this is an amazing machine and does include a wealth of new features I'd immediately use (including a faster and more robust #machinelearning engine), these costs of both a new #workstation and new #computer are staggeringly high.
If Yamaha hadn't dropped support for its driver, I'd be fine continuing to use a last generation instrument.
And no, switch to a different workstation, ie #Roland or #Korg is simply not an option. Switching to #Windows also isn't an option for specifically ASIO vs CoreAudio reasons. In short, MacOS allows aggregation of audio devices. I have combined my two separate interfaces (Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 + OctoPre Dynamic via #ADAT *and* the Montage interface) for a seamless massive 50 inputs and 26 outputs. Windows uses ASIO, which can only use one interface at a time. #Windows11 still does not offer this feature. Switching to #Linux also isn't an option because neither Yamaha nor Focusrite support Linux and neither does my software.
Ugh....
#pain #musictechnology #musictech #tech #technology #musicproduction
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