On the menu bar, you can now have Control Center and redesigned Wi-Fi and Sound menus. The Finder has a new sidebar that picks up from the iPad OS sidebar and apps like Mail gets new icons. More Like iOSįollowing a trajectory that has been underway over the last few years, macOS 11 is more like iOS than ever before. If you want to learn more about how Rosetta 2 and Universal 2 will impact audio applications including DAWs and plugins then read our articles Apple Silicon - A Developer Helps To Explain The Impact and Apple Silicon - How This Will Affect You And Other Audio Professionals. That said, the creation of Rosetta 2 will help by enabling Intel coded apps and plugins to run in Big Sur on Apple Silicon computers. If you thought that the upgrade from macOS Mojave to macOS Catalina was a challenge with the dropping of support for 32-bit apps and code, then the change to Big Sur is going to more significant especially if you are coming from Mojave or earlier. As the numeric change would suggest, this is probably the biggest change to macOS since Apple introduced Mac OS X roughly 20 years ago, especially when you consider the changes that come with the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon. Windows can provide workability for 64bit and 32bit apps so there is no reason why Apple cannot.With the release of macOS Big Sur, on Thursday, November 12th 2020, Apple retires Mac OS X (10) and replaced it with macOS 11. It's just a shame that Avid can't warrant their customers enough to provide us with a fix to what really is a very simple issue. It really seems like these problems we face are a combination of Apples plans and Avids plans for the future. That means there is no current way and possibly no way in the future for them to operate the workarounds that they do. If you look into their page they state the following 'macOS Big Sur 11 no longer loads kernel extensions, it's not possible for us to provide an update.' One thing to also suggest from that link that was posted here as a work around for the older USB Mbox's I am saying hang in there guys and there might be something that pops up in the near future.

It's a shame none of us here are really programmers or you could actually write a kext to support this. Its 2021 and would take no time at all for them to give us a 64bit update.

It seems that they don't really care to offer much help at all.

Seems a few people in here might be working for them too. To be honest reading this thread has made me have little hope in Avid.

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