Blue Yeti X Mic & Big Sur / M1 Macbooks - Error trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI

Yeti Microphone Issues With M1 Mac - Apple Community

The link above is the issue I am having, the mic is detected, but the sound echos/repeats. Sometimes it goes fast and sounds like a chipmunk. When I press record, the second counter goes crazy. Recording a 5 second clip then saves as a repeating/echoing 30 second clip. Still can't find any answers.

Just as an update to those who chose the Blue Yeti X due to its software... i installed and tested Krisp to aid in noise cancelation and that works without issue on the M1 mac and the Yeti X. So if you are wanting the noise cancelation features of Blue Voice, Krisp seems to be a decent option until this get resolved (hopefully soon). Not endorsing Krisp by any means, just reporting back that i finally found something decent that helps with background noise elimination.

Have you tried contacting Blue about the issue?

https://support.bluedesigns.com/hc/en-us

I'm not aware of any software Blue requires to use the mic, so this sounds like an issue within Big Sur, but it's worth reaching out to them.

You may also want to contact Apple Support directly:

Contact - Official Apple Support

Ok, so I saw a suggestion elsewhere on google to reset the PRAM to solve this issue. Because I've almost never seen this work or fix anything I went ahead and tried it...and it fixed the issue!

Shut down your computer and start it back up while holding down command-option-p-r

Hold those keys down until you get a second startup chime and then let them go.

When I booted back in and went to sound preferences the Yeti Blue mic was showing again

Sorry Pie, I put my response in the wrong forum tab (I was in a bit of a rush to get back to work this morning)--many users such as myself didn't even have the mic show in our inputs list which a PRAM reset solves. It probably isn't a fix for your issue. Best of luck!

I tried the Blue Yeti X mic on Big Sur and a Mac mini M1. At first the microphone showed up but there was no sound coming out of the speakers. I tried installing the G Hub from Logitech. I could hear one-second loops of what I recorded, and it did not want to record for longer....

Then I managed to make the sound output work and it would not work live at all. When playing back what I recorded in a voice memo, the playback was messed up with so many artifacts in-between. On Logic, the microphone worked but the sample rate was messed up it seems because the recording sounded like a chipmunk...Isn't the yeti capable of doing 44,100Hz ?

Afterwards I installed the Blue yeti Sherpa App to try to see if I needed a firmware upgrade on the mic. Except after I did so, the microphone vanished from the input/output in Audio Devices... and with it, so did my computer's internal mic! I can't even choose it as an option as input anymore. I went on the support website of Blue Yeti and the page just reloads constantly so I can't even reach them!

I'm sure if I reset PRAM, the mic would reappear as an input/output but then I'll have the same issue as before with the playback...Until they update this, it is really incompatible with M1 and Big Sur combination. I will be returning this mic and going to use an audio interface with a real microphone!

I'm also seeing the mic just fine in device options but it's performing erratically. (I have an M1 Mac Mini.) Even in the Blue Sherpa app, when I press record and play to test it, the recording is garbled and repeats snippets of what I'm saying.

Thank you for the temporary fix.

For those wondering, resetting PRAM doesn't work on M1 (tried it several times). I read that apparently its supposed to reset it by itself when the system thinks it should. You have no control over it to do a manual reset like on intel macs.

This is SUPER frustrating. It better be fixed before I need to record classes for Winter 2021 term.

Yeti worked great on previous Macbook Pro, but not with the new MacBook Pro with M1 and Big Sur.

I tried resetting the PRAM with the Yeti connected. After startup, the Yeti works fine.

But then the Logitech Hub tells me to disconnect and reconnect the Yeti, after which the problems recur.

But if it is true that M1 does not allow manual PRAM reset, maybe simply starting the computer with the Yeti connected will solve the problems in the short term.

i can now confirm that simply restarting with the YETI connected fixed the problem. i can now record in Zoom without issues. BUT the Logitech Hub does not 'see' the Yeti. It is asking me to unplug and replug it in. NO WAY! :)

I have also tried everything said here. I can see the Yeti X in G Hub, but it tells me to unplug it and replug it. When I do nothing happens. I emailed Logitech support on 12/2/20. I got a reply from the gaming people who said they were forwarding it to the proper team. It is now 12/22 and no reply.

I got a reply from Logitech telling me to restart and reset my PRAM giving me instructions for a non M1 Mac. It is obvious they either don’t know what they are talking about or they don’t care. I told them there are hundreds of people reporting the same problem. They haven’t replied.

So plugging in the mic and restarting the computer works in order to get the mic to work with basic functions. But as soon as I open the G software to get into Blue Voice, the mic no longer works. I have to restart the computer and I once again get basic functions. Has anyone been able to get Blue Voice software to work with an M1 Mac?