I recently switched to a M1 (Ultra) machine running on Monterey. I noticed that the SoundFlow shortcuts are much less responsive. It looks like it's only within the Pro Tools app. Jumping to markers and anything that works with track functions (open pan or inserts). These are just examples where I noticed it. Are there any known issues on this? Or is it the Rosetta conversion that Pro Tools need to run?
System Information
SoundFlow 5.1.5
OS: darwin 21.5.0
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 12.4
BuildVersion: 21F79
Steps to Reproduce
- On medium/large mix session press 1 to open insert or q for output of a track.
- Any macro that needs to scan the tracks(names).
Expected Result
Reaction should be more snappy.
Actual Result
System is sluggy. Generally noticable in Pro Tools. This might be infecting SoundFlow.
Workaround
Be patience.
Other Notes
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Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2022-06-01 10:35:02.524ZHi Danny,
Thanks for reporting this. We have heard other reports that for some users, Pro Tools in general is sluggish on Monterey 12.4 with M1 (Ultra) chips. One of the things this has as a result is that SoundFlow's interaction with Pro Tools is also made slower, but as far as we know right now, this is a performance degradation in Pro Tools, not in SoundFlow.
I am running Pro Tools on 12.3 here on a Macbook Air with the first gen M1 chip and I'm not noticing any slowness, so this may be related to some more Mac Studio specific issues (are you on Mac Studio?)
Danny @Danny_van_SpreuwelThanks for your reply Christian. I would have guessed that if Pro Tools is slow that SoundFlow is depending on that. Pro Tools itself isn't that responsive as well as it used to be. Might be that it's running under Rosetta. Will have to see what an Apple Silicon version of Pro Tools will bring us. Indeed a Mac Studio here.
- Danny @Danny_van_Spreuwel
FYI
I noticed that the sluggyness has to do with my super session. When Pro Tools has a lot of clips on his timeline and in the clip list it's somehow busy with updating that ones in a while. Like it needs time to empty a buffer organizing that database of clips. It also happens when moving and relinking clips in this session. That takes a very very long time while in a much smaller session this is much faster. The super session has 8 episodes of 50 minutes drama.