This will be an ever changing list that will hopefully help you decide when to update MacOS Big Sur. I mainly put this here for myself to keep track, but feel free to let me know what other music software statuses are since I obviously don’t have them all 🙂
Updated Dec 18 2020
DAW’s etc
Studio One 4.6 | No |
Studio One 5.x | Yes, I think, but reports of crashes |
Reaper 6.x | Appears not yet |
Logic | Yes, of course 🙂 |
Finale | Yes |
Dorico | Yes |
Notion | Yes |
Sibelius | Yes |
VST’s etc.
Overloud | All are compatible (click link for update instructions) |
Native Instruments | Partial (click link) |
D16 | Appears not. Even Catalina needs workarounds. |
Steinberg | Not Sure, but they say some are. |
8 Dio | Yes, but downloader still not updated |
Melodyne 5.1 | Yes |
EastWest | No |
Izotope | No |
Sonnox | No |
Plugin Alliance | Yes |
Output | No |
Eventide | Yes (as of Dec 18, 2020) |
Waves | Yes (as of Nov 25, 2020) |
Line 6 | No |
Softube | No |
Audiority | No |
Akai | No |
Positive Grid | No |
Fabfilter | Yes |
Metric Halo | Yes |
Universal Audio | No |
Spectrasonics | Yes |
Slate Digital | No |
Reason Studios | Yes, with latest update |
Arturia | No |
TB Pro Audio | Yes |
Initial Audio | No |
XLN Audio | Some (Addictive Keys and Addictive Drums 2) |
Cherry Audio | No |
Audified | No |
SoundToys | No |
UJam | No |
Applied Acoustics | Yes (Per email from support) |