I haven't yet ungraded from my trashcan mac but looking at doing so soon.
For pure audio work (to picture but no video rendering) it there any point in going for the M1 Ultra with the extra proc power (mostly GPU) or is the M1 Max sufficient?
Full orchestral and hybrids work with 90% of VSTs being Vienna and running on VEPro 7. Cubase host.
I've been watching the thread on the compatibility too which is a bit concerning - and a big feature of my setup is I use ViPro a lot - it being so much more usable than Synchron player - and I haven't yet found out if ViPro (within VEPro 7) will work on one of these new units..