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       So I'm sure nobody was surprised by this, since it's been a rumor for a while. 
    My big hope is that Vienna port the plug in to the new chips. It makes sense that the server would take forever, and no one should expect otherwise, but if we can run VEP plug ins in the coming Arm MacBook Pros that would solve a world of trouble this move could cause mac users. 

     I of course have my motives, my macbook pro is 2012 and some time in the next year or two I will probably end up with a new Arm MacBook Pro. I would love to use it as a DAW host with VEP plug ins running the plethora of plug ins that will take forever to to port. 
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    my advice is don't panic yet...wait.  Stay on your intel mac for a few more years.  this will all get worked out for everything eventually but its going to be a couple years before all the trick audio stuff we do will be running on ARM...and frankly for audio use would definitely not buy a first generation ARM mac...  be patient.  The intel stuff is going to keep working as solidly as ever for the next few years.  Take another look then.

    I'm completely confident VSL will do whatever they need to do to continue supporting the mac platform.
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    @Dewdman42 said:

    my advice is don't panic yet...wait.  Stay on your intel mac for a few more years.  this will all get worked out for everything eventually but its going to be a couple years before all the trick audio stuff we do will be running on ARM...and frankly for audio use would definitely not buy a first generation ARM mac...  be patient.  The intel stuff is going to keep working as solidly as ever for the next few years.  Take another look then.

    I'm completely confident VSL will do whatever they need to do to continue supporting the mac platform.

    Oh for sure. I'm just hoping VEP is an early adopter. I'm not selling this Mac Pro here, I will always have a decent backup hardware machine. VEP offers if they release an Arm compatible plug in, the ability to get a new MacBook pro in the next couple of years without much concern about other plug ins not making it to Arm chips. This is something I didn't do properly when I switched to OS X, being an early adopter etc. 

     In the end this will be fantastic, it's entirely possible to have a decently powerful master laptop or iMac with Arm chips that has no fans, running slaves in a closet or separate room. With VEP I'm not that worried about the power of the master, but zero fans, that's a plus.