Sat Oct 05, 2019 11:07 am
I’m happy to be able to provide an update to this thread. I just bought a MacBook Air Retina, which has the T2 chip according to Apple’s website. It is running OSX 10.14.5. I tested it with my Steinberg UR22 USB audio interface, connected with a USB to USB-C adapter, supplied by Apple. After using Hauptwerk for 30 minutes (with turn off hard drives disabled in Energy Saver), I’m happy to report I didn’t have a single interruption in audio.
Given this, I suspect either one of the two following:
-This setup is one of the ones that just work (there have been reports of this since the beginning of the T2 chip)
-Apple fixed the problem in one of the OS updates
Given my success, I would be cautiously optimistic about the T2 macs for Hauptwerk with the following Caveats:
-If you do get one, test it with your audio system cautiously (I used headphones for the first test)
-Be prepared to potentially have to buy a Thunderbolt hub. I was considering buying one of the Caldigit hubs that apple sells. Given the good power performance of the thunderbolt 3 standard, I don’t think a powered hub is necessary (Even though usually you want a powered USB hub for audio applications)
As a side note, I also found what others have reported, that audio latency is a problem with my Bluetooth headset when on Bluetooth. No problem when I connect it via wired connection.