Originally Posted by pmills
I'm about to move my music production from an Intel Mac to a new Mac.

Assuming I will be running my DAW (Reaper) as a native application, will the Band-in-a-Box plug-in still work with it?
Or am I back in the world of MIDI export/import, using the BiaB app under Rosetta?
For the next couple years, BIAB for the Mac will continue to require Rosetta 2 on AS Macs. Apple has said, that Rosetta will not be a part of macOS 2028 so BIAB will have to become a Native app in mid 2027. We went through this last time when BIAB had to become 64 bit in 2018 so that it could run over Catalina.

As for your question, it depends. Not be a Reaper user, I can’t speak to that.

I can tell you that Finale doesn’t play well with BIAB unless I run Finale 27 over Rosetta 2–then it does. While BIAB runs great over Rosetta, Finale lags a bit so I don’t.

Although I understand the reasons why, 2027 can’t come fast enough for me.

The BIAB plug-in runs fine in Digital Performer, however. There are many threads about it how it works in Reaper in the Plug-in section.


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