I noticed quite a bad thing: before the "upgrade", the battery life on my M3 Max MBP was always 12-13 hours, now 6-7 hours. And I saw quite few reports about Sequoia big battery drainage. So it seems it was quite a bad idea to try the "upgrade". Getting just a new wallpaper and losing half of battery life :(

It might have been spotlight indexing when you checked, which uses a fair bit of CPU. I can't imagine Apple would knowingly half the battery life on their machines in an update

2 things:

1. Always give a couple of days for background cleanup and indexing to finish before deciding and

2. You are all very brave, if you’re upgrading production machines to a new OS the day of release.

For major releases (not just MacOS), my usual advice is wait 6 months, ideally be 1 year behind if you can.

Unless you know the new version has something very specific that helps.

For example - Sonoma made CoreAudio much better for USB interfaces (including ones with custom drivers).

THAT is a major cool thing.

Not sure yet what is the cool thing in Sequoia for audio. Maybe there is some optimisation. Apple didn’t really advertise the improved USB performance for example in Sonoma as a major thing. But word got out.

I connect my MOTU 828ES to my M1 mac using AVB rather than via thunderbolt or USB. I do this partly so that I can connect the MOTU to a 2nd computing device at the same time, via one of the traditional connections.

I have managed to get this setup working in Sequoia properly, in the same way that it worked in Sonoma. I did have to manually reenable this connection after installation of the new OS, but everything went smoothly.

You did in a day what I've never been able to finish in years

Ha just have to get it done. I took a break from it for about 5 months but just couldn't wait any longer.

I went ahead and updated a M1 Macbook Pro.

Everything so far (knock on wood) is working fine. This is a dual audio system which uses an Avid / Pro Tools HDX system via Thunderbolt AND a Dante native network via a RME Digiface Dante.

Logic and Pro Tools appear to be working as intended, and I haven't reached a problem with any plugins YET. I have not tried every plugin on native / HDX yet so there could still be a few problem children hanging out in the shadows.

I also have the system connected wirelessly to a Synology NAS which I use for secondary backup (primary backup is a TB drive attached to the computer). NAS working well also.

I wasn't going to upgrade but saw folks on the DUC were good to go so I took a chance. Smooth so far

Ok, so the battery life is now back normal... I read that Macbooks CPU work faster now (somebody even measured and found the speed boost is 14%) that is good

I usually wait a good 3 months before a major OS upgrade but after reading all the good experiences here (and two time machine backups ), I decided to update my M1 Max Mac Studio.

SSL 12 interface and SSL 360 working with no problems. Ableton Live 12 runs flawlessly here and I tried a bunch of plugins I usually use (some iLok stuff included) and again, not a single issue.

Thankfully everything seems to be working fine. I'm quite happy with this year's update process.

Honestly, I would almost expect that. I think they break (or at least made more ineffectual) power management in every .0 release, including iOS and its children.

I'd expect a .1 release pretty quick like normal, where they fix the issues.

It seems the battery life issue almost always comes from the fact a new OS needs some huge new indexing, and this sucks the battery life. But as soon as it's finished, it's back to normal...

At least, it seems to be the @ ISedlacek experience...

Anyway, happy to hear so much good experiences...
Even if I stay on Sonoma for now...

Funny you were adamant a couple days ago that updates were just fancy new icons and gimmicks..

Who would've thought they actually optimize shit here and there??

I've updated to Sequoia two days ago. Since then, I've tested it extensively on a project that I'm working on Logic at the moment. My mac is an M1 Pro Macbook Pro running LP11 with an Audient iD44 mkII.

The only issue I've encountered so far is that maybe three times yesterday Logic would display the beach ball for about 20 seconds, clearly trying to process something, and then becoming responsive again, so no freezes.

Plugins tested so far are from developers such as Softube, Soundtoys, UADx (native), u-he, Kazrog, UVI, Plugin Alliance, Slate, Sonarworks, Soothe2, Gulfoss, Waves, TDR and Mastering The Mix. I didn't have time to test every single plugin and there are plugs from other developers that I'm yet to test/open, but so far I'd say it's all good, minor those three brief beach balls.

Hope this helps.

I had issues with Softube Central and its connection to iLok but that problem which happened twice now seems to have gone away despite no updates to either. *shrug*

Everything is working well so far, but I’m running into issues with Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource. For some reason, it’s not routing app audio to totalmix with my RME UFX III. It works fine with built-in audio and monitor speakers, though. Had no problem with the same configuration in Sonoma.

Rogue Amoeba claims compatibility with Sequoia, so I might try opening a support ticket with them. I’ll also post about this issue on the RME forums to see if anyone else has experienced it.

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Avenger users, be careful. In MacOS Sequoia, every time after changing the WiFi connection to another connection, the computer ID is reset and the plugin is deactivated. This is fraught with a license ban.
The problem is observed specifically in MacOS Sequoia. There is no such problem in Sonoma. I could not find the source of the problem for 3 days and only today I finally figured out what was going on. I had to roll back to Sonoma.

Strong DRM is benefitting the honest users, as usual.

Sequoia may have decided to turn on the 'Private Wifi Address' by default. If the license is tied to the MAC address, turn it off. ViewSonic has some software that runs in our ViewBoards where the license is tied to the MAC address, and preactivated when the units are put together so out of the box it works as soon as it has an internet connection to unlock. If we service one of the larger boards and have to replace the mainboard, we have to give the customer a 'service key' to unlock it because new main board=new ethernet port, and since its a 'service part' its not pre-activated like an assembled unit is.

As soon as we updated everything in the house to Sequoia/iOS/iPadOS/TVOS 18 some stuff started messing with my routers DHCP reservations and access controls and got blocked. Not everything did it, but my iPad and Mac both switched it on for some reason, and the misses Mac did it as well. My iPad somehow got 'stuck' and despite the setting being turned off was still coming up as the fake MAC on my router, had to reboot it to get everything to play nicely.

What?
What are you talking about?

I'm being sarcastic.

Even on iOS 17, private WiFi address is on by default. Haven’t checked on Sonoma but I guess not from what you’re saying.

Which begs the question, what was the issue with iOS 18 if that setting is also on in 17?

Another reason to not be on the bleeding edge unless you have a truly spare machine.

I've had it turned off since the day the feature was added, as I use the access controls on our router here, new MAC address=no access, on top of having DHCP reservations to organize all the crap on our home network (that's what happens when you also do network/security stuff for a living haha). For whatever reason the Sequoia update turned it back on for both of our Mac's and iPadOS 18 did it to my iPad Pro as well. My iPhone never budged and kept working as usual, setting is still disabled.

Audient, according to their website today (Sept. 22), advises against updating as they're still testing. They don't mention any issues, though. So…I guess we may or may not see a firmware update.

Your post is good to hear, though.

https://support.audient.com/hc/en-us...ty-Information

Where can I disable it in the settings?

I had a brief bit of GUI glitching on Focusrite Control (3.18) but it hasn't recurred so far.

Also tried Eventide Split EQ (they still advise to wait, but I only use it occasionally) and it seemed fine, tried a few presets, tweaked for a minute and no issues.

The Private Wi-Fi Address feature has existed in iOS (and its variants) for several years now, but was just introduced on the Mac in Sequoia. It's not an on/off setting; the options are "Off", "Fixed", and "Rotating". In most cases, the default is "Fixed" — your Wi-Fi interface has a fixed, unchanging MAC address for each network you join, but it's different for each network (according to Apple, "your device chooses Fixed by default when joining a new network that uses WPA2 or stronger security").

Evidently some software uses your Wi-Fi MAC address* to decide whether it's still running on the same machine (as an anti-piracy measure). I don't think this was ever a good idea, but it's definitely going to be a problem for users who join different Wi-Fi networks, since macOS uses a different MAC address for each network you join. If you have software like this, you'll have to set Private Wi-Fi Address to "Off" for each network you regularly join (at least the ones where you use that software). But you should also contact the company and tell them to stop doing this. MAC addresses are an easy way to track your physical location as you join different networks, so software should no longer rely on them for authorization.

Here's an Apple support document with details on how the Private Wi-Fi Address feature works:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102509

* For those who don't know, a MAC address is a "media access control" ID that every network interface has; it's not a "Mac" thing.

For Sonoma users - you can update to Safari 18 via the System Settings without needing to update to Sequoia. This means that you can have the 'distraction control' thing to hide ads etc without risking an OS update. This seems like the most interesting addition to me!

Interested in any audio/DAW or performance specific updates...

I’m in the Apple developer program snd been using Sequoia for quite some time now - Roland cloud had a login problem …however it seems to be resolved with the latest rolling cloud update just heads up

I’ve been having a problem with the ilok help agent install for quite some time. Have to use a separate install every time ST central updates.

If this is the error that there is no connection... Softtube must be activated in the "Apple menu > System Settings > login items & extensions > Softube AB ". after restarting it worked for me.