Ah, okay. Yours might not often have the opportunity to produce the crash. 
My m1 pro 14 has no issues (using usb-c to thunderbolt adapter) with a presonus quantum. It awakes and detects after sleep no probs.
I do have issues with a quite new LG un880 32” monitor not detecting after computer shut down which requires restart of monitor, but that’s a different fish kettle.
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I looked at hard at the Quantum. That’s good to know that it has no problems. I tried a Presonus interface with my M1 the last time this happened, and I don’t think I had the rebnot issue with it. I didn’t keep the Presonus, though, since MOTU (temporarily) fixed the issue.
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MBP 14” with MOTU UL 5 via USB
No issues on wake up, and very happy with it.
The only issue I get is when Bitwig switches to “automatic” bitrate vs 48Khz as then I hear some audio artifacts. It does this sometimes after an update to Bitwig, and I just switch it back. But when it’s at 48Khz with 128 samples, it’s great with zero errors or dropouts.
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I don’t know if you’re referring to the issue @Scot_Solida and I are having. But our issue doesn’t have anything to do with standby/wake up, just for reference. I’m shutting down the Mac and it seems to do that, but right after the screen turns off, it starts up again. Around 33% of the time, at least (today it worked alright around here). Selecting shutdown on the login screen shuts it down for good. Always. Next time after login I’m greeted with a crash report dialogue.
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Yup, that describes my issue precisely.
The think with sleep mode is that the ram gets wonky after a while… I was getting help with an issue with autofill, and after power cycling, it corrected the problem. They recommended once a week or so to keep everything running smoothly.
I don’t always adhere to that, but if something is going wrong, then that usually solves it.
Now, audio routing is a different issue. I run my MBP to a Scarlett 18i20. And for whatever reason, if it goes to sleep or logs me out, I may have to reinitialize that the 18i20 is the perferred audio.
Or I’ll have no sound sometimes.
Usually if I restart logic and then power on the interface, its fine.
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I use an 18i20 as well, but a mk1 & it behaves well on my Mac mini for the most part, the only thing I have found is that in S1 when I first load it up the sound is corrupt & I have to manually change/reset the latency or samplerate to force it to reload & then it’s fine. Outside of that I haven’t had any problems.
I did have issues like that with a Steinberg UR & switching off put hard drives to sleep solved it for me, I think it’s USB related. It still never worked properly though but that setting improved things.
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long shot: are you using an older timemachine backup drive that isn’t apfs formatted? apparently that can cause a similar issue to yours…
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that sounds like something I was experiencing with my intel MBP when I had 2 monitors connected, both monitors have usb inputs (both usb a and c) and both were connected as displayport over usb and as usb hubs.
the issue was after using the shut down from the main top left apple menu, the mbp was turning back up sometimes hanging on boot and heating up, I had to manually verify every shut down by long pressing the power button and turning back up to user select and using the power off from there.
I remember at the time I suspected that my Focusrite Scarlett has something to do with it.
after Universal Control launched I started using my ipad more for most apps and I removed the second monitor and since then I did not have this issue again.
my guess is that is has something to do with usb hubs that keep the mac up for some quirky reason, the dell monitors I use have some settings about usb power and I suspect that one of these settings was the culprit, once I removed the second monitor it just stopped, all my usb devices are connected but the mbp powers down without having this issue.
my advice check your usb-c hubs / monitors with usb ports if you have any and try seeing if the issue happens with them being involved.
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Nope. I backup manually - no Time Machine drive connected. And when I got this Mac, I did a clean ground-up install of everything.
I have only a single monitor connected, via HDMI. I am pretty certain this is to do with the MOTU interface (or at least was the first time it was happening), since a MOTU firmware update addressed it and fixed it, temporarily, at any rate.
could be that the motu was having some weird power settings as well…
in my case it was one of the hubs I used, probably the monitor acting as hub or another usb-c hub I used with the second monitor.
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MOTU M2 latest firmware and software.
M1 Pro Macbook Pro 14, latest update of Ventura.
Using DAWs: FL Studio 21, Bitwig 4.4, Reason 12, Logic Pro, Renoise, Reaper, Live 11 Lite, Maschine 2.
Never had any reboot issues you describe. I do however occasionally get a hang of the MOTU M2 interface. It happens in two ways;
- When turned on, there is no sound, so I have to switch it off and on again.
- It hangs (no controlls work, screen and buttons are stuck), and also needs a restart.
Note that this is not a Thunderbolt interface but a USB-C (USB 2.0) one.
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How about the screen going dark when you mouse over the the reply button on this forum?
Its so easy to mouse over to the killscreen corner.
I turn all of that off, except on my mac mini where the top right corner of my second screen turns the screens off.
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after waiting for more then 2 months I’ve received the Studio yesterday, all I have to say is daaaaaaaaamnn… this thing is beast!
sure I’ve gotten crazy and almost full spec’d it but the speed of the silicon itself is unreal compared to intel. it boots up within seconds, it’s cool as cucumber no matter what I throw at it.
the same default ableton project I have setup on my intel mbp is barely touching the cpu, I’ve setup all fabfilter plugins to oversampling and HQ everywhere I could and the machine is still cool around 37 degrees celsius… and, it runs it smooth on 64 samples and 48000 rate with 3.67 rtl! coool cool cool…
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Native Instruments has updated Battery 4 to version 4.3.0, now ARM native. Encouraging stuff. Such a great plugin and was already ultra efficient under Rosetta 2. Good to see it’s not going the way of Absynth, which I am still sad about.
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The new Mac mini and MacBook Pro with the M2 and M2 Pro chip have just been released.
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I don’t really get Macs and storage. What’s everyone reckon is the minimum storage size for the ARM macs?
Like, is 256 GB ridiculous for anything other than using mostly web based apps? Is the 256GB just there for the price point to get people in the shop?
Say you have a defined list of applications you want to use that’s less than 256, how much leeway would you be comfortable with?
How much does MacOS generally bloat in size as it goes through updates?
Do you need to keep 30-40GB free as a matter of habit for installation files to be able to do their thing?
Or is it basically feasible to run applications installed on external drives these days with usb 3.2 and better transfer speeds?
How’s everyone feel about sample libraries and instruments on an external drive and how much RAM you need for loading those? They do a swap file sort of thing with RAM and main HDD yeah? At what point does that tank if your main drive is chockers?
Personally, with regards to Mac Mini’s, I no longer think of proper storage as an internal solution. The internal drive simply allows for the OS, apps and a few smaller libraries of things. I use separate SSD’s for any large virtual instrument libraries and samples and then a different SSD for tracking audio to. I had someone 3D print a small sled for the SSD’s, so they stay relatively neat, stable and out of the way. Having said this, I still opt for the 500GB internal drives just to allow for bloat here and there.
At the moment, this strategy has worked well for me.
I’ll note, I also always go with 16GB RAM despite the improvements in ARM architecture. For the price, it’s a worthy upgrade and a degree of future-proofing.
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