Audio drop outs on a cloned Mac computer

Hi everyone!!

I’ve started having this issue.

I’ll explain because maybe I’ve missed something in the process

Ok. So, last night I cloned my MacBook Pro to another machine so I can have a backup machine, just in case… They are almost identical in specs. Only differences are HD size and screen size.

Everything went fine and all is in its place. I just had to find the Kontakt folder and reactivate GP.

All the sounds are there and GP refers to all the sample folders correctly. I haven’t changed any connections. All I have done is swapped computers to verify the functionality.

There aren’t any plugins failed within GP… I’m just having audio dropouts on the new machine.

Anyone have any ideas for where to start looking? I’ve done the usual… checked connections, license activation and plugins verification and all is “fine”. If I place the “old” Mac in its place all is perfect

What Audio Interface are you using?
What type is your another machine?
What messages are shown in the Console Log Window?

My advice is to build everything from scratch and not clone.

Hi @pianopaul .

I have been using a Presonus 1824c for the past few years.

Both machines are MacBook Pro 2018 / 2019 Intel with i9 processor and 32GB RAM.

In console, what must I look for?

I thought of that but at the Apple Store they said that migrating everything would work fine

You can filter for coredaudiod

Do both machines already have the T2 chip?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250394337?sortBy=rank

Yeah, ‘cos they’re genius….sigh

Those guys are used to people running email, word processing, documents, a browser, etc

Migration has NEVER been 100% reliable, particularly when it comes to system stuff like plugins that require activation, some drivers that require some automated background daemons that have to be configured and so forth.

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I get the idea, guys. haha!! Let’s go back to the drawing table and I’ll take @npudar 's advice and do everything from scratch.

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I assume so. This “New” laptop isn’t actually new… I just named it that way so you guys could differentiate one machine from the other.

So… This year, the “new” machine is the actual machine I used last year as my main rig (so I KNOW it works fine) … but this year, as I changed groups I decided to use the other laptop I have as my main machine (Works a charm) and last year’s machine as a backup “clone”

Coreaudiod.zip (5.8 KB)

@pianopaul Just for investigation’s sake…

Did not find the culprit yet.