Hi, i'm on Sierra and i'm considering updating to Monterey. Can i expect that most of my audio plugins will work? They are from sister site if you know what i mean

 

Well, the older they are, the less likely they will be to work. Newer plugs shouldn't be an issue, but you might lose some older ones.
If you want to be on the safe side, maintain a partition with your current setup, and install on the fresh partition. That way you can answer the question for yourself.

 

all 32bit plugins, applications and drivers will stop working,
all plugins which require legacy OpenGL may not work

 

Last edited: Jan 20, 2023

is there a list somewhere which plugins doesnt work on newer osx versions? i searched but couldnt find anything

 

What plugins do you use on High Sierra that you have to bridge somehow, with J-Bridge or another wrapper? Most of the stuff that won't work are the ones that would already have given you a hard time to run. I would just upgrade, personally. Anything you can't get running you can just as easily replace (in almost all cases).

 

vast majority of plugins was updated to be compatible with newer MacOS versions, so it's mostly about making a list of stuff you have and check respective manufacturers websites for up-to-date system requirements and compatibility notices

 

yes but i use plugins from sister's site will update in coming days and we will see. should i install over existing sierra installation or backup to separate disk and then transfer files with time machine? i would like to avoid reinstalling all plugins if possible

 

you should backup anything important, just like always. My biggest concern would be any external hardware having drivers in the new OS, because I just ran into that with Ventura and my Motu. As an example.

But I would definitely Migrate to the new OS, and I would just expect a few tiny things to be small issues like always. Maybe some old plugins do not work; even if it is an odd plugin you can google "plugin name, alternatives" and usually get a very good quick list.

I would force things past Gatekeeper and re-Codesign them again. Run this in terminal, it will do all of them aside from AAX:

#!/bin/bash

cd /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/

find . -name "*.bundle" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.VST" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.vst3" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.component" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;
find . -name "*.dpm" -execdir sudo xattr -cr \;

find . -name "*.bundle" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;
find . -name "*.VST" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;
find . -name "*.vst3" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;
find . -name "*.component" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;
find . -name "*.dpm" -execdir sudo codesign -f -s - {} \;

 

so far i have found problems with openssh plugins and with roland srx, system 1 and system 8

i'm on lpx 10.7.5 and monterey 12.6.2

 

that's not that bad a big migration, if everything else works so far. Every time, there is always something....

 

yea, i know. i have solved roland stuff, didnt have the newest trazor releases, now roland stuff works. dont know what happened with openssh stuff but i know that its very old stuff