Director on m1 Macs

[borderline]

I am upgrading our FOH and am considering the CDM 32. Can anyone comment on whether Director is or will be made compatible with OsX Monterey? I searched the forum and googled but didn’t turn anything up. My apologies if the answer is out there, I just can’t seem to find it.

[Matt S]

Nothing really to add except I have an M1 Mac and it for sure does not work yet. I use my old Mac for Director purposes. Surely a compatibility update will come.

[SoundGuyVienna]

I have a Macbook Air M1 with Big Sur, running Director 1.90 and 1.91 without any problems.

[Dave]

Director 1.91 (as well as 1.9 and 1.8x, IIRC) works fine on our M1 Mac Mini running macOS 11.6.1. I don’t know if it’s a “native” app or not, but it works regardless.

There was an issue a while ago where if Director was connected when we recalled a show from our surface, it’d hang and the surface would lose its connection to the MixRack, but I’m pretty sure that got fixed in firmware 1.9 or 1.91.

[borderline]

Ok that matches my experience. I downloaded it on my Monterey pro and it was crazy glitchy. I guess I’ll just wait. I was hoping maybe someone came up with a workaround.

[Joe G]

Hi all, nobody has heard any news on this yet have they?

[Dave]

@Joe G, I keep our M1 Mac mini at FOH on whatever the latest major supported OS version is (currently 11.7.4), but I keep my personal laptop running the latest OS release (13.3.something, I don’t remember) and Director runs fine on it. Hasn’t had a glitch in years, and I don’t remember it ever just not working at all.

(That said, I recommend not running ahead of the supported OS releases unless you have a really good reason.)

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