Nerd Alert

I'm very excited to finally have a brandy new MacBook Pro. My workhorse MacBook was 10 years old and was a little glitchy and under-powered for some of the music and sound apps. The migration has generally been pretty straightforward. The exceptions though are the music  plugins I use with my DAW (Ableton Live). These were acquired over many (MANY) years from a wide variety of vendors.  Having to go back to each vendor's site, check the specific plugins, re-download and re-license each product is freakin' daunting. The problem is not with any individual plugin or even a single vendor, it's having to do it so many times.  And the download/license process is just a little different for each vendor.

The work is progressing steadily and I have not run into any of the dreaded incompatibility issues where a plugin has not been upgraded to run on a newer OS. One vendor has gone out of business so that virtual instrument plugin cannot be migrated to the new machine – a disappointment because I really loved the wind synthesizer sounds it generated. Do I keep my old machine running just so I have access to that plugin? We'll see.

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