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2015/01/14 20:42:39
Makzimia
Hi All,
 
I asked this within the new thread about plans release. I am sure it got lost in all the excitement over the upgrade plans. Has anyone tried running Sonar on a Mac with boot camp?. My specs are in my signature, all solid hardware, more than beefy enough system to run anything. 
 
Thank you,
 
Tony
2015/01/14 20:49:00
...wicked
It works. I had it running on my Macbook. But performance is not great, and driver support is a little lacking for Bootcamp. Also tried it with Parallels, but performance was not great.
 
2015/01/14 20:59:23
Makzimia
Thanks Wicked. Curious as to what hardware you tried with the Mac and what version of OSX. Also, what year model and spec is your Macbook please?.  RME drivers are rock solid usually. UAD card should be ok.
2015/01/14 21:04:38
TabSel
MacBook Pro late 2013 2.6ghz 16tb nv750 2gb

Running bootcamp and paralles 10.
Performance wise I see no difference between these, pretty impressive.
Babyface on bootcamp, Jackaudio -net on vm to Mac Jackaudio to ULN2, both working perfectly, stable, low latency.
No issues, pretty fast, quiet laptop.
2015/01/14 21:13:45
Makzimia
Thank you TabSel, what I was waiting to hear :). Is jackaudio-net needed if not running parallels?. Is jackaudio-net actually needed at all for my RME card and UAD card?.
2015/01/14 21:45:59
Keni
I run Bootcamp on a fairly large Mac pro... Win7 pro and I forget I'm on a Mac as I don't really use the Mac side for anything... It's my Sonar DAW

Nice way to get a powerful dual quad or larger processor system. Not a lot of PC manufacturers offering multi-processor-multi-core machines...

Keni
2015/01/15 02:39:33
Shayne White
I have Sonar X3 running on both my 2008 Mac Pro and 2010 Macbook Pro. On the Mac Pro, it works flawlessly. Great performance, rock solid. On the Macbook Pro, there's a weird issue with the nVidia graphics creating system DPC latency, causing audio dropouts with my FireWire audio interface. The only solution is to temporarily revert to Standard VGA (which, in Win7, is still 1280x800 32-bit color, thankfully). After that it works fine.
2015/12/05 06:04:18
Makzimia
Just wanted to come back and thank those that responded to this. I just (3 days ago) finally got around to installing bootcamp and setting up Sonar Plat on it. I also went with a SSD drive and 2 1TB 7200 drives now. System hums along like a rocket :). 
 
Cheers,
 
Tony
2015/12/16 13:05:02
lwmiller
Based on this thread I'm staying with Sonar on my Mac.  Taking the Boot Camp plunge today .
2015/12/16 15:53:36
tenfoot
Sonar works perfectly under boot camp and has done so sInce the first version - as it should. A mac running windows under bootcamp is a PC, making it the best Mac ever:) 
 
Never had much luck running parallels due to drivers and shared reources.
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