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Vaultnaemsae · Post by **Vaultnaemsae** » Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:02 pm

Any Opencore Legacy Patcher users here?

I’m interested in hearing about/discussing people’s experience with OCLP specifically in a music production environment.

I’m having a good experience with OCLP v1.0.1 on a mid-2015 MacBook Pro Retina 15” running Ventura (macOS 13.6). It’s very stable but when I gave Sonoma a try I ran into a few problems with some Native Instruments plugins/apps not working: Kontakt 7, Guitar Rig 6 and Maschine 2.

What have your experiences been with OCLP?

waltercruz · Post by **waltercruz** » Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:14 pm

I've a macbook pro early 2013 that I have upgraded to Monterey using Open Core Legacy Patcher (0.6.x).

These days I use this mac almost to just live performance - I run Mainstage, a lot of plugins, and everything works fine.

Sonoma is pretty new don't? NI software are not currently officially supported on Sonoma (https://support.native-instruments.com/ ... s-on-macOS)

funktional · Post by **funktional** » Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:50 pm

iMac 12,1 mid 2011 running Monterey with OCLP 1.0 Amd non metal
blank screen with latest waves.
No cursor in Logic
Other than these everything is smooth.I wouldn’t go for Sonoma yet.
Peace

Calagan · Post by **Calagan** » Mon Oct 09, 2023 7:10 pm

Interested also, for a mid-2012 macbook pro.
Is it as stable as some of the guys here say ? It seems amazing to me...

Vaultnaemsae · Post by **Vaultnaemsae** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:40 am

waltercruz wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:14 pm NI software are not currently officially supported on Sonoma (https://support.native-instruments.com/ ... s-on-macOS)

Not officially but all the apps I mentioned worked fine on a MacBook Air M1 when I tested them under Sonoma.

Vaultnaemsae · Post by **Vaultnaemsae** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:41 am

funktional wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:50 pm iMac 12,1 mid 2011 running Monterey with OCLP 1.0 Amd non metal
blank screen with latest waves.
No cursor in Logic
Other than these everything is smooth.I wouldn’t go for Sonoma yet.
Peace

Maybe try v. 1.0.1?

Vaultnaemsae · Post by **Vaultnaemsae** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:45 am

Calagan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 7:10 pm Interested also, for a mid-2012 macbook pro.
Is it as stable as some of the guys here say ? It seems amazing to me...

I’ve got Ventura running fine on a 2011 MacBook Pro and the other 2015 model that I mentioned. Completely solid and reliable. The performance of the 2011 isn’t notable but it’s usable. The 2015 runs just fine. Even universal control and continuity camera functions work fine, which is not really relevant for music creation but they’re nice bonuses.

Calagan · Post by **Calagan** » Mon May 06, 2024 8:39 pm

I finally took the plunge and installed Sonoma on my Macbook pro mid-2012 that was stuck on Catalina, thanks to Opencore Legacy patcher (I did a fresh install from a formatted SSD).
I wanted to be able to install the last version of Ableton Live 12 on it and share some sessions with my M1 pro...

So far, it seems everything runs fine, but I noticed the mac is hotter than before, and the fans are all the time on.
It may be because of the Spotlight indexing, or it may just be that Sonoma is too GPU intensive for this poor old fellow (I'm pretty sure it's a GPu issue, because it's hot on the top left corner).

I'm afraid it's the second option and Sonoma is not a good idea for this old laptop, because at the beginning the macbook was very hot and the fans were running quick, but now it seems indexing is finished, and the laptop is still hotter than before and the fans never stop (even if they are quite low), even if nothing happens.

I wonder if it will stand some hardcore Ableton live abuse like before, being already exhausted when idle...

Anyone in the same situation ?
Anyone did find a fix ?