[theaudiologist1]

Hey guys. I just updated my 2011 Macbook Pro to (unofficial) Catalina as well as convert my drive from HFS+ to APFS. So far everything has been working fine and fluently, except Audirvana. Audirvana is a huge laggy mess, even on High Sierra it was but now it's worse. It lags on the album view everytime I scroll through the library. It plays and upsamples to DSD just fine, but it really lags on the library even more than on High Sierra. I deleted the cache and everything but nothing changed. What is the problem? I have 16GB of RAM and an SSD, and every other program I use, even the likes of Premiere Pro, Audition Photoshop and Final Cut run perfectly fine without any issues.

 

[tumpux]

Same thing happened to me on my Windows version of Audirvana. Strange since it runs on a newer version of hardware than my 2013 MBP.
I planned to contact the developer but never follow it through until now. MBP is much more joyous to be used anyway..

 

[creed2]

I was just about to sign up tonight on a 2012 mac book pro. Could I run into same problem since my mac is a little old?

 

[tumpux]

No, my MBP is from the same era.

 

[theaudiologist1]

No, my MBP is from the same era.

Is your mac HFS+ or APFS? Is it on Catalina?

 

[oatp1b1]

I was just about to sign up tonight on a 2012 mac book pro. Could I run into same problem since my mac is a little old?

It works flawlessly on my 2012 Mac Mini (i5, 8 GB RAM, SSD) so you should be good.

 

[theaudiologist1]

It works flawlessly on my 2012 Mac Mini (i5, 8 GB RAM, SSD) so you should be good.

have you updated to catalina? Do you use APFS or HFS+?

 

[oatp1b1]

have you updated to catalina? Do you use APFS or HFS+?

AFAIK I run the latest version of Catalina and use APFS. Minor correction though, I have 16 GB of RAM and not 8.

 

[theaudiologist1]

I figured out why Audirvana was so slow. A lot of my album arts were very big (2000x2000 or 3000x3000, one was even 6000x6000 that just made my mac freeze for 2 minutes) so I converted all the album covers above 1200x1200 all to 1000x1000. Now Audirvana runs much better now (albeit still laggy a little.) Though I never had this problem before switching to SSD and APFS.