andy-chiles
Hi!
I got a new MacBook.
M2 Max / 12-Core CPU / 38-Core GPU / 32GB Ram / 4TB / MacOS Ventura
it took me a few days to figure it out how to do the switch from my old to the new one, since I had to take care of some "third-party-stuff" which is not related to VirtualDJ.
But in the meantime I installed VirtualDJ on the brand new and empty Macbook, just to see the performance of the stems. I opened the completely blank installation of VirtualDJ and tested the stems.
Worked perfectly.
As I figured out how I could perform the switch correctly, I switched from my old to my new MacBook - the exact same MacBook on which the stems worked perfectly before - and ran VirtualDJ.
The message "Stems Engine Error" showed up.
No matter what I tried, the message keeps appearing.
Things I tried:
- Re-Installed VirtualDJ
- Updated the Ventura 13.4 (VirtualDJ is always up-to-date)
- Different settings in Options -> stemsRealtimeSeparation
- Different settings in Options -> stemsSavedStems
- Different settings in Options -> stemsFix
- Deleted the entry in Options -> videoDriver (It had "Intel Iris" in it, but automatically switched to "Apple M2 Max" as soon as I hit the cross in the right side.)
- Reset the whole software (in Options-Menu)
(by resetting the software the folder where the database and all VDJ-stuff is located changed from the documents-folder into the library-folder. It was in documents before, because I had the same installation since 2010.)
The Stems Engine still doesn't work and I don't know what to do else.
Previously separated stems do work.
Preparing stems doesn't work.
This is what the Log-File says:
--- 2023/05/23 - 15:59 (7569)
[15:59:10] Stems engine GPU failed. m1 error Failed to generate key request for 8E7270DE-CD89-4D34-A356-FF97CD69A596 with error: -42908
[15:59:10] Fallback to no stems separation (GPU not available)
Anybody any idea?
I got a new MacBook.
M2 Max / 12-Core CPU / 38-Core GPU / 32GB Ram / 4TB / MacOS Ventura
it took me a few days to figure it out how to do the switch from my old to the new one, since I had to take care of some "third-party-stuff" which is not related to VirtualDJ.
But in the meantime I installed VirtualDJ on the brand new and empty Macbook, just to see the performance of the stems. I opened the completely blank installation of VirtualDJ and tested the stems.
Worked perfectly.
As I figured out how I could perform the switch correctly, I switched from my old to my new MacBook - the exact same MacBook on which the stems worked perfectly before - and ran VirtualDJ.
The message "Stems Engine Error" showed up.
No matter what I tried, the message keeps appearing.
Things I tried:
- Re-Installed VirtualDJ
- Updated the Ventura 13.4 (VirtualDJ is always up-to-date)
- Different settings in Options -> stemsRealtimeSeparation
- Different settings in Options -> stemsSavedStems
- Different settings in Options -> stemsFix
- Deleted the entry in Options -> videoDriver (It had "Intel Iris" in it, but automatically switched to "Apple M2 Max" as soon as I hit the cross in the right side.)
- Reset the whole software (in Options-Menu)
(by resetting the software the folder where the database and all VDJ-stuff is located changed from the documents-folder into the library-folder. It was in documents before, because I had the same installation since 2010.)
The Stems Engine still doesn't work and I don't know what to do else.
Previously separated stems do work.
Preparing stems doesn't work.
This is what the Log-File says:
--- 2023/05/23 - 15:59 (7569)
[15:59:10] Stems engine GPU failed. m1 error Failed to generate key request for 8E7270DE-CD89-4D34-A356-FF97CD69A596 with error: -42908
[15:59:10] Fallback to no stems separation (GPU not available)
Anybody any idea?
Posted 4 days ago @ 2:09 pm
andy-chiles
Meanwhile I used a small free program called "AppCleaner".
It seems to search for every related file & folder of an app to achieve a complete clean uninstallation.
Looked very promising, since it found a lot of folders in the Macs Library.
After that I re-installed Virtual DJ again.
It was totally reset to zero as I hoped it to be, but the "Stems Engine Error"-Warning still comes up.
The Log-File says the same thing as before:
--- 2023/05/25 - 05:18 (7555)
[05:18:55] Stems engine GPU failed. m1 error Failed to generate key request for 8E7270DE-CD89-4D34-A356-FF97CD69A596 with error: -42908
[05:18:55] Fallback to no stems separation (GPU not available)
Can someone help?
It seems to search for every related file & folder of an app to achieve a complete clean uninstallation.
Looked very promising, since it found a lot of folders in the Macs Library.
After that I re-installed Virtual DJ again.
It was totally reset to zero as I hoped it to be, but the "Stems Engine Error"-Warning still comes up.
The Log-File says the same thing as before:
--- 2023/05/25 - 05:18 (7555)
[05:18:55] Stems engine GPU failed. m1 error Failed to generate key request for 8E7270DE-CD89-4D34-A356-FF97CD69A596 with error: -42908
[05:18:55] Fallback to no stems separation (GPU not available)
Can someone help?
Posted 3 days ago @ 3:26 am
Adion
Can you check if System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled?
https://www.kolide.com/features/checks/mac-system-integrity-protection
Also, it seems like the mac transfer utility might cause this.
https://www.kolide.com/features/checks/mac-system-integrity-protection
Also, it seems like the mac transfer utility might cause this.
Posted 3 days ago @ 4:17 am
andy-chiles
Adion wrote :
Can you check if System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled?
https://www.kolide.com/features/checks/mac-system-integrity-protection
Also, it seems like the mac transfer utility might cause this.
https://www.kolide.com/features/checks/mac-system-integrity-protection
Also, it seems like the mac transfer utility might cause this.
Ok so it seems that during the transfer process the SIP got disabled, because it already was disabled on the old mac due to get "totalfinder" to work. ( https://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ )
I enabled it again and VirtualDJ works perfectly, so thanks for that in the first place!
Is there a way to get the Stems also running with SIP disabled, to be able to still use totalfinder?
I tried to run VDJ with Rosetta (by right-clicking the app --> Get Info) and the Stem-Engine worked even with SIP disabled. (But the ventilator of the mac turned on during VDJ was opened)
Maybe there is a way to get it running with SIP disabled?
Posted 3 days ago @ 2:02 pm
Adion
Without SIP the rosetta version would fall back to cpu processing, which is indeed not as efficient.
Posted 2 days ago @ 2:12 pm
andy-chiles
Adion wrote :
Without SIP the rosetta version would fall back to cpu processing, which is indeed not as efficient.
Oh ok, I understand.
So do you think you can figure out a way to get everything working without SIP and without Rosetta?
Posted 2 days ago @ 2:35 pm
Adion
Not very likely
Posted 2 days ago @ 2:46 pm
andy-chiles
Adion wrote :
Not very likely
Sad to here this.
But maybe there is some solution some day.
Nevertheless, THANK YOU very much for your help!
Solved my problem.
Have a nice time!
Posted 2 days ago @ 2:59 pm
christianwheel
I went through that as well. Freaking LOVE totalfinder. But stems have to come first.
Posted 2 days ago @ 2:07 am
andy-chiles
christianwheel wrote :
I went through that as well. Freaking LOVE totalfinder. But stems have to come first.
Oh yes, you said it!
I mainly bought this mac for better performance overall, but a big chunk of this decision were the stems of course.
Thats why there is no question for me what has to come first, but I indeed will miss totalfinder.
Posted 2 days ago @ 4:14 am