Dorico Pro 5 compatibility with M4 MacBook Pro?

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Hi all! I just upgraded my laptop to a 14" MacBook Pro with the M4 Pro chip. And after working with Sibelius for many years, I’m taking Dorico for a test-run. One motivation for my switch is that I understood Dorico 5 to be compatible with Apple Silicon and MacOS Sequoia. But when I try to install a trial version of Dorico Pro 5 on my machine, I keep getting prompted to install Rosetta, which I’d like to avoid if possible. Is there something I’m missing here? Is it the case that Dorico might be compatible with M1, M2, and M3 … but not yet M4?

I can’t seem to find any specific discussions of Dorico compatibility with M4 chips, so I appreciate any guidance you can provide.

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I think Rosetta is needed for the activation manager.

Jesper

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I saw someone mention a way to potentially get around this problem, but I haven’t been able to figure it out. Does this mean I’m stuck installing Rosetta?

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I believe you are but could be mistaken.
Is it really a big deal?

Jesper

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I suppose it isn’t. I’m mostly bothered by the fact that there’s no official way to uninstall Rosetta, and I’d love for things to run as clean as possible a new machine. And it bugs me that apps which claim to be universally compatible aren’t so compatible in actuality.

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From what I know, it’s a very small installation.
But I get your point since that’s what I always try to achieve.

Jesper

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Dorico is native, but some of the Steinberg support apps are not – the download Assistant and the Library Manager. (The Activation Manager is now Universal!)

Chances are that something is still going to need Rosetta for the time being; and it’s better to be able to be able to run it, until such time as Apple removes it from the OS altogether.

There’s nothing dirty about it! It doesn’t make your native apps, or your OS, any less performant.

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Thanks for allaying my concerns! I realize they’re perhaps a bit silly. Just want to be sure I’m doing right by my new machine. I’m grateful to have such a supportive and responsive user community here.

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Avid Link is also still an Intel app, so if you want to run Sibelius on this machine you’ll find you need Rosetta in order to get your license going. Rosetta’s still an inevitability, really.

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Roger that, thanks. (To be honest, I’d been thinking about Dorico for awhile — and running into the Apple silicon compatibility problem was one of the things that pushed me to make the leap.)