MacOs Golden Gate Removes Rosetta from my Mac and makes Steinberg Download Assistant and assisted files redundant… 
Since I don’t want to reinstall Rosetta, how can I keep my current Steinberg apps up to date without SDA…?
Only use OS versions that are officially supported by Steinberg software, if you want to be able to use that Steinberg software.
Hi,
Steinberg Download Assistant is Intel only so far. Unfortunately, you still need Rosetta on the Silicon (M) processor.
Golden Gate still fully supports Rosetta. OS 28 (likely next year) will end Rosetta support.
Steinberg has recently stated here on the forum that the SDA will be silicon capable by the time OS 28 arrives.
…and what is the reason exactly that above mentioned apps are still NOT macOS AS native after 5 years…?
Cubase 15 Pro, VST Live 3, WaveLab 12 ARE all Apple Native 
Actually these apps were AI compatible 5 years ago…
Pointless discussion as I can see anyway…
So as for my original question goes… How do I check and install updates for Cubase 15 Pro, WaveLab and VST Live without Rosetta..?
Everytime Appple releases a beta macOS people will come to the forum in order to complain about things not working well in {insert Steinberg software here}.
And the answer is always the same: Only work on supported versions of macOS. If you wanna be a beta tester for Apple be prepared that things are not going to work out.
Once a non-Rosetta macOS is released and Steinberg hasn’t released a working SDA I will have a little bit more sympathy for your case.
I agree with you on one thing, though: It’s a pointless discussion.
For anyone on Apple M cpu’s interested, there is free app called RosettaCheck that as the name suggest finds all apps on your Mac that are still dependent on intel and will not be compatible in the near future.
In my case it found only two apps out of 151 and they are:
Steinberg Download Assistant and Steinberg Library Manager together with associated 2 helper files…
What a joke, considering that every other Steinberg product is AS Native since at least 4 years ago…
PS; I have found some answers after searching Google…
it is built using Java-based frameworks rather than native code.
and more disturbing is the fact that Steinberg doesn’t see updating SDA to Apple Silicone as necessity…
It is NOT beta, it is the latest update to Tahoe… Are you even using AS Mac..?
And there is more of explanation curtsy of Google…
“Steinberg has not updated the Steinberg Download Assistant (SDA) to native Apple Silicon primarily due to legacy dependencies (like the Java runtime and aria2c components) and low customer demand. Because the app still runs smoothly using Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation, porting it hasn’t been an urgent priority.”
WTF…
From the site:
https://www.apple.com/os/macos/
Granted, they call it preview. But it is coming this fall. I assume they mean autumn of the Northern hemisphere. That’ll be in a few months from now.
I still don’t understand what you actually try to achieve with your posts other than to stir a commotion. Is there any real need for you to run macOS 27 now while you also need to run Steinberg software?
No, it is even worse, it is a developer preview, which is before public beta. It is MacOs 27 which is the next release of MacOS and not an update to Tahoe.
Find it not surprising that Mac intel users are so sensitive to this subject and so supportive of current state of SDA LoL
Use the web site?
Sounds like the best solution yet 
If you install Golden Gate you must reinstall Rosetta 2 again because the Golden Gate install removes Rosetta 2 from Tahoe as you install Golden Gate over it. I found this statement about this issue on the web: “Users who had Rosetta 2 installed on macOS 26 Tahoe will need to reinstall it after upgrading to Golden Gate, as it will be automatically removed.”
So, if you download and install Rosetta 2 you should be good to go. Hope this works for you.
I have no idea if that’s a true requirement or a hallucination, but we (Microsoft) actually supply the AS builds of the JRE for macOS and have for some time. So it’s out there. As it turns out, Minecraft on macOS is a thing, and so we maintain it.
Pete
Microsoft