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) |