Either use bootcamp to dual boot windows or run windows in a virtual machine with your choice of software on your macbook.
apple silicon runs windows with ease as well as virtualizes it.

 

Either use bootcamp to dual boot windows or run windows in a virtual machine with your choice of software on your macbook.
apple silicon runs windows with ease as well as virtualizes it.

This is what I need help understanding. The videos I have found on YouTube are a couple years old and the comments say the process in the video doesn’t work anymore.

I also want to make sure I’m not installing anything bad or anything that will compromise the performance of my MacBook

 

currently running on a macbook air m1 through VMware fusion pro on a windows 11 arm. pretty easy to setup just need to purchase a windows key (I got one for 11 dollars through groupon.)

 

I am running the same. My only issue was when I was upgrading the firmware on the device. I had to swap over to windows for the usb to capture the bootloader connection

 

@rcm78 has tuned his DSP with PC-Tool on Parallels.

I have have an M1 Mac with Parallels + Win 11. PC-Tool runs fine under Parallels.
But I never actually connected it the Mac to my Match UP10 DSP.

I have a spare Windows laptop, and that is what I used for the actual tuning.

 

Would the standard edition Parallels be good enough to run PC Tool and REW? I like that it has a 1 time purchase option, but it has much lower ram and cpu performance. I don’t want to be paying a subscription fee for it.
But then VMWare is free, maybe I just try that first?

 

A step by step guide would be great! Only extra to purchase is a Windows key?

 

You also don’t… have to purchase Windows… just run it with no key

 

yep,
I'm sending him a step by step for vmware and if it works for him he can share here

 

I run a ton of stuff through parallels on my M1 Max- solidworks, winisd, other engineering software… but one thing that does not work (for me at least, nor any IT guy I’ve met)…

USB connections other than pointing devices and keyboards. I haven’t been able to get any of my oddball hardware like dsp, rc car programming tools, PLC programming tools etc have been completely useless for me.

I haven’t dug in extremely hard to this because I do have a decent windows laptop for these types of things, but cursory looks in to device manager have been fruitless.

I’d just say to proceed with tempered expectations, unless someone here posts a fix for this or posts that they can connect to the helix in a windows VM.

I’d love to be proven wrong here.

 

USB passthrough can be done in Sequoia I'm just not sure if the software has been updated to utilize it yet.

 

I did tune my car with Parallels on my M1 MBP and a UMIK1 mic. Setting the gain and the RTA worked very well. I feel there was too much latency when using the Helix Auto Time Alignment. I ended up measuring, then fine tuning by ear with Left, Center, Right tracks I downloaded from Nick at Resonix.

I also didnt buy a windows license. It works fine without a key.

 

Did you just use the standard edition parallels? I’m setting up VMWare Fusion right now, so I’ll see if this works first

 

Hi, so I have install PCtool on paralells on an M1 Macbook, but after connecting with USB, it is not detecting the DSP. Also the USB driver install failed. Anyone experienced this?

 

I wish I could help. I had to remove the Helix DSP’s out of both of my vehicles while I was trying to figure this out. When you plugged in the USB, did it ask if you wanted to open it in Parallels or MacOs? That’s what it did when I plugged in my USB mic and the USB mic worked perfectly in REW in Parallels

 

I don't even see the USB device show up in Mac finder, so nothing shows, or pops up on windows.

 

Do you have a proper USB-A to USB-C adapter that can support high speed data transfer? I think I the adapter has to say USB 3.2 like this. I have used this and another brand that looks nearly identical and they worked with a USB mic in Parallels

 

Dealing with this issue right now. Same symptoms: USB device doesn't show up at all on Mac or Win11 VM. DSP Tools runs fine in Win11 VM but cannot connect to MatchUp.

Anyone have success with this? The only PC I have is an OLD gaming PC with a dead battery, broken keys, and a screen with no brightness. If I were in the dark with an extension cord then maybe it would work.

 

OK...I tried three different Macs, two with x86 processors and one ARM. I tried Bootcamp, Parallels and VMWare when possible. Every one had the same problem of seeing the MatchUp on the COM but dropping the USB. Luckily we have a robust BuyNothing FB group here and I picked up a free i7 ThinkPad with Win11. REW and PC Tools are now working without issue. I wish PC Tools was just "Tools" and available on Mac so I could run REW, PCT and Bimmercode all on one device, but alas....it is not meant to be.

 

VirtualBox worked for me once… might still do

 

I ended up just getting a cheap Windows laptop
I used my M1 Max as well for tuning when I had a JL Fix86, since switching to Helix I've pivoted to Windows,

 

I think I’ll just be using my Windows laptop to avoid any issues. Would have been nice to use the MacBook though

 

Yah I was fighting my mac and literally just picked up a laptop from Best Buy today for 230 out the door. Seems to work great so far.

 

I’m running it all on Windows. Using a Umik-1. I didn’t have a chance to test with an XLR microphone yet

 

I bought a cheap windows tablet just for this. Works well.

 

Another update: I can’t get my Motu M2 microphone interface to work on windows in parallels, which forced me to run REW on MacOS. And guess what, the PC Tool EQ filters still auto populate when you measure in Mac and tune in Windows. Pretty awesome. I noticed the averaging was taking like 4x as long on windows too. So I think this is the perfect solution. No need to mess with REW on parallels

 

Yeah, they share the memory buffer, pretty cool. I run parallels on my work computer and do that all the time. It was cheaper for me to buy a tuning windows tablet instead of the parallels license, and I will not use my work computer for anything other than work.

You can also run REW on your windows VM.