Monterey with Musescore

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Monterey with Musescore

I just installed Monterey on my 2014 Mini and now Musescore will not load but stalls at 'initializing synthesizer and audio driver...' Suggestions? Thank you.

Posted on Nov 12, 2021 12:53 PM

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Tesserax

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Nov 12, 2021 1:07 PM in response to Pmjz27

Have you contacted the app developer to see if they have an updated version that works with macOS Monterey yet? Ref: Contact a third-party vendor - Apple Support

According to the Roaring Apps site, no version (1, 2, or 3) of this app is known to work beyond macOS Big Sur on Intel-equipped Macs.

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Pmjz27 Author

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Nov 26, 2021 3:30 PM in response to martin gerup

Reloading Big Sur from Monterey appears to be very challenging. From what I have found Musescore 3.6.2.5 does not run on Intel based Macs with Monterey. Does anyone know if Musescore 3.6.2.5 will run on M1 based Macs running Monterey?

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Nov 19, 2021 11:55 PM in response to Pmjz27

I had to re-install Catalina, and from there - when I got time - Big Sur. Musescore 3.6.2.5 worked fine on both platforms. It looks very much like, it is Monterey that caused the problem. Just to keep up with my work as a music-teacher, I am now using my weekend days to re-install programs, soundfiles, and get cloud-service up and running. A small notice on this issue would have helped me to keep calm, and wait till the problem was solved.

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samtenor

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Nov 27, 2021 5:57 PM in response to Pmjz27

Yes, I am running Monterey, currently 12.0.1

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Pmjz27 Author

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Dec 14, 2021 11:43 AM in response to samtenor

Musescore runs just fine on my new M1 based Mac but to run it the first time I had to download a program named Rosetta. Perhaps there is a similar solution for Intel based Macs running Monterey.

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Pmjz27 Author

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Nov 13, 2021 11:04 AM in response to Tesserax

Yes, I am working with the Musescore support group and forwarded them the information you supplied above regarding the 'Roaring Apps' site. Thank you for your response.

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Pmjz27 Author

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Nov 16, 2021 6:57 PM in response to Pmjz27

Thank you. I hope the problem will be resolved with the 4.0 release - hopefully sooner - and that other Musescore users with Intel based Macs will not upgrade to Monterey until this is resolved.

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