MacOS Big Sur Compatibility for Musicians
Published on: 7/29/2023
This will be an ever changing list that will hopefully help you decide when to update MacOS Big Sur. I mainly put this here for myself to keep track, but feel free to let me know what other music software statuses are since I obviously don't have them all :)
Updated: July 20 2021
Notes: It seems that most plugins are ready, but you need to check for yourself. Kontakt 6 is ready to go, so I didn't list companies that are Kontakt related. Kontakt 5x won't work as far as I can tell.
DAW's etc
| Studio One 4.6 | No |
| Studio One 5.x | Yes |
| Reaper 6.x | Yes, beta support for ARM |
| Logic | Yes, of course :) |
| Finale | Yes |
| Dorico | Yes |
| Notion | Yes |
| Sibelius | Yes |
DAW and Notation Software Compatibility with MacOS Big Sur
VST's etc.
| Overloud | All are compatible (click link for update instructions) |
| Native Instruments | Mostly (click link) Kontakt 6 works |
| D16 | Appears not. Even Catalina needs workarounds. |
| Steinberg | Not Sure, but they say some are but not with M1. Notable there are issues with interfaces, which I use (now appear to have security workarounds). |
| 8 Dio | Yes. https://8dio.com/2018/10/12/updating-to-mojave-downloader-not-opening/ |
| Melodyne 5.1 | Yes |
| EastWest | Yes, Intel only |
| Izotope | Partial, click here to check |
| Sonnox | Mostly |
| Plugin Alliance | Yes |
| Output | Kontakt plugins only, so yes. |
| Eventide | Yes (as of Dec 18, 2020) and now on ARM and Windows 11 |
| Waves | Yes (as of Nov 25, 2020) |
| Line 6 | No |
| Softube | No |
| Audiority | Mostly |
| Akai | No |
| Positive Grid | Yes |
| Fabfilter | Yes |
| Metric Halo | Yes |
| Universal Audio | Yes |
| Spectrasonics | Yes |
| Slate Digital | Yes |
| Reason Studios | Yes, with latest update |
| Arturia | Yes |
| TB Pro Audio | Yes |
| Initial Audio | Yes, but check each product. |
| XLN Audio | Yes (Except Addictive Trigger) |
| Cherry Audio | Yes |
| Audified | All our effects except AmpLion Pro are Big Sur compatible |
| SoundToys | Yes, Intel only |
| UJam | Yes, please read because updates may only work on Big Sur. https://www.ujam.com/virtual-guitarist-update/ |
| Applied Acoustics | Yes (Per email from support), also complete M1 compatibility |