Is there any change in System Requirements for Pro 8 from Version 7? There was an issue at the beginning with Pro 7 that some functions didn’t work on Macs that couldn’t process AVX instructions. Robin fixed that. I want to make sure this is still the case and that there are no surprises after purchase. It would be so much easier if Steinberg allowed us to demo.
Two specific questions actually:
Does it, like Cubase 11, require Metal Graphics?
Does it still work without AVX?
Are there any other new changes that could affect it’s compatibility with older systems? (Running Mohave 10.14.6)
If your mac officially support macOS Mojave, you’ll be good in term of compatibility.
It doesn’t require Metal graphics, still the same OpenGL 3.3 requirements.
You should be good without AVX support as well.
Unfortunately, very disappointed to report instant crashes in numerous processes (SpectraLayers Pro 7 is fine for it’s similar processes:
Heal
Reverb Reduction
Clip Repair
De Bleed
There isn’t even a crash report. Just Poof, it’s gone.
Something has changed between v7 and 8.
Is there any reason Steinberg won’t provide demos on release dates? I sure hope this can be solved because I did my best to avoid this happening.
Thanks for reporting. The processes you mention all use the libtorch library, which was indeed updated from v1.6 to v1.8 between SL7 and SL8, but is supposed to handle non-AVX configuration similarly.
Despite the absence of crash report dialog, can you see crash report files when you open SL and go to Help > Support Info > Diagnostics Folder ?
Is there any chance of this being fixed? I tried to replace the libtorch in v8 with the one from v7. You probably know that didn’t work. It did produce a crash report.
Hi ulesto, SpectraLayers doesn’t require Metal, but it’s only officially supported on officially supported macOS Mojave configurations, which is not the case here, I guess you used a non-official tweak to force the install of Mojave on your computer. On top of lack of AVX instructions, the Mac Pro 2008 also lack support for the older SSE4.2 instructions, which might be the reason for the crashes.
I didn’t say there won’t ever be a fix - but it’s much trickier to make it work on non-officially supported configurations, specially moving forward efforts are now focused on newer configurations such as Apple Silicon computers.
Not saying there won’t ever not be a fix is not encouraging and very vague.
Maybe just let me know whether you think you can fix it or not, whether you even want to try and when, because I have been waiting patiently for a couple of months without being able to use it. Steinberg has had my investment in the meantime on good faith and a sincere attempt to avoid any incompatibility.
If you don’t think it’s worth the effort just let me know and I will request a refund. I will understand and hope Steinberg as well understands that a decades long customer has tried to continue investing in it’s products.
I have the same problem with win 10 21h2. when I click on spectralayer (pro8 trial version) Nuendo freezes.
I also have melodyne. when I click on melodyne everything works. before installing spectralayer 8 pro the spectralayer one version was working. there is a bug in the program
