Roland's 32-bit Jupiter-50 synth fixable to work in MacOS Catalina

Is Roland's Jupiter-50 able to make work in 64-bit Catalina yet, or is it dead?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 13, 2021 6:48 AM

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Posted on Mar 13, 2021 7:20 AM

Longer version of above: Ask Roland, though this device is listed as discontinued, and with no indication of 64-bit and Catalina support posted. So likely “no”.


32-bit apps will not work on Catalina.


You might get this to work by installing and configuring Mojave as a guest within a hypervisor installed on Catalina, and then figuring out how to get that to connect out to this hardware. Roland probably won’t be much help here, there’s not going to be much doc elsewhere on this outside of whatever hypervisor doc is available (try some web searches, etc), and the success of this this is entirely dependent on the hypervisor compatibly presenting this device to the guest and the Roland app.

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Mar 13, 2021 7:20 AM in response to OldDocJack

Longer version of above: Ask Roland, though this device is listed as discontinued, and with no indication of 64-bit and Catalina support posted. So likely “no”.


32-bit apps will not work on Catalina.


You might get this to work by installing and configuring Mojave as a guest within a hypervisor installed on Catalina, and then figuring out how to get that to connect out to this hardware. Roland probably won’t be much help here, there’s not going to be much doc elsewhere on this outside of whatever hypervisor doc is available (try some web searches, etc), and the success of this this is entirely dependent on the hypervisor compatibly presenting this device to the guest and the Roland app.

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Roland's 32-bit Jupiter-50 synth fixable to work in MacOS Catalina

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