Will the plugins work in ARM - Macintosh computers?
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As you might know, Apple is switching to ARM cpu's and intel processors won't be supported anymore in near future. Also on the last July, Steinberg released their vst sdk 3.7 that has arm cpu support.
Does anyone know that current Hise exported plugins will work in new arm macintosh computers or not?
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You can compile iOS apps with HISE which use the same CPU architecture, so ARM is not the problem. I can't guarantee that everything is 100% smooth though.
Also the upcoming SNEX JIT compiler makes heavy use of x86 assembly, so it will be a massive effort to port this to ARM, but that's future music anyway...
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@Christoph-Hart said in Will the plugins work in ARM - Macintosh computers?:
You can compile iOS apps with HISE which use the same CPU architecture, so ARM is not the problem. I can't guarantee that everything is 100% smooth though.
Ok, it is good to hear that.
Also the upcoming SNEX JIT compiler makes heavy use of x86 assembly, so it will be a massive effort to port this to ARM, but that's future music anyway...
I'm looking forward to SNEX JIT much more than arm macs :) Thank you!
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In the WWDC, Apple declared that to get the software to run on Apple Silicon (new ARM cpu based systems), developers will need to recompile their existing Intel-based source code for the new architecture. However in short term, of course there will be a transition from intel to arm cpus.
You should read this article: https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/6/25/apple-silicon-a-developer-helps-to-unpack-what-we-know
By the way, Apple announced an ARM based Mac Mini for developers a couple of months ago (Developer Transition Kit). So the developers can test their software on the new system from now. It has beta versions of macOS Big Sur and XCode.
