M1: The end of Bootcamp, Parallels, etc.?

[James Steele]

So I'd often considered getting Parallels to run a virtual Snow Leopard machine to see if I could perhaps finagle UniSyn into working somehow. But honestly, it's an experiment I don't think I'll ever get to... not to mention that with new Macs running on Apple Silicon, seems like running Snow Leopard... or especially a virtual Windows machine is going to be a thing of the past. The Intel processors were what made that feasible from what I understand.

[bayswater]

For a while I had an old Mini running SL and some things that wouldn’t work on newer Macs. Cubase SX3 and Unisyn were two of them. It was possible to put the SL desktop on a window on newer Mac via Screen Sharing. This still worked with Mojave about a year ago.

No mucking around with emulation and the apps running on the old Mini simply appear as windows on the newer system. I don’t know the price of a really old Mini, but it can’t be much more than Parallels.

[James Steele]

For a while I had an old Mini running SL and some things that wouldn’t work on newer Macs. Cubase SX3 and Unisyn were two of them. It was possible to put the SL desktop on a window on newer Mac via Screen Sharing. This still worked with Mojave about a year ago.

No mucking around with emulation and the apps running on the old Mini simply appear as windows on the newer system. I don’t know the price of a really old Mini, but it can’t be much more than Parallels.

That's a great idea. I should look into that. It would be cool to be able to run Unisyn. Only thing I wonder is that would necessitate having both my primary Mac and the old Mini being able to simultaneously access the my MIDI interfaces. I suppose I could use some sort of USB switch to temporarily give the Mini access to the interface connected to hardware modules that I want to do Sysex with. Hmmm..... thanks for the interesting info...

[bayswater]

Only thing I wonder is that would necessitate having both my primary Mac and the old Mini being able to simultaneously access the my MIDI interfaces. I suppose I could use some sort of USB switch to temporarily give the Mini access to the interface connected to hardware modules that I want to do Sysex with. Hmmm..... thanks for the interesting info...

Yes thats a complication. I used a MIDI merge and a splitter left over from when I had a rack of modules, but if your setup is USB end to end, its not obvious how to do it.