Comments on: SnowLeopard with ProTools Warning!! http://www.thetransparenttruth.com/music/snowleopard-with-protools-warning/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:11:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: O-Snaps http://www.thetransparenttruth.com/music/snowleopard-with-protools-warning/comment-page-1/#comment-38 O-Snaps Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:47:28 +0000 http://www.thetransparenttruth.com/?p=464#comment-38 Ken, I'm with you 110%, i really feel that Apple should do more especially with their its so easy campaigns, to make the merge for their professionals easier. Personally i am a techy, so i usually don't upgrade anything until the first service pack or update comes out to fix the "Rel Life" Bugs not the "Beta Break It" Bugs. As a matter of Fact i havent even went to ProTools 8 because of everything working so great with 7.4. I guess i look at it at a more Marco perspective in respect to "if its not broke don't fix it" sort of thing. Unless the new version offers something that will severely save me time in my work. So unless they offer it i usually stay 1 version behind!! Hopefully for us, we will be able to run ProTools 8 on Snow Leopard here in the near future. Ken,

I’m with you 110%, i really feel that Apple should do more especially with their its so easy campaigns, to make the merge for their professionals easier.

Personally i am a techy, so i usually don’t upgrade anything until the first service pack or update comes out to fix the “Rel Life” Bugs not the “Beta Break It” Bugs. As a matter of Fact i havent even went to ProTools 8 because of everything working so great with 7.4.

I guess i look at it at a more Marco perspective in respect to “if its not broke don’t fix it” sort of thing. Unless the new version offers something that will severely save me time in my work. So unless they offer it i usually stay 1 version behind!!

Hopefully for us, we will be able to run ProTools 8 on Snow Leopard here in the near future.

]]> By: Ken http://www.thetransparenttruth.com/music/snowleopard-with-protools-warning/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Ken Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:25:40 +0000 http://www.thetransparenttruth.com/?p=464#comment-37 Having just erred in upgrading to 10.6 without testing compatibility, I guess I qualify as one of the dumbasses who thought that Apple might be a bit more in touch with their professional audio user base. Perhaps they believe that with their Logic Pro available, we will all just drop our Pro Tools, but they couldn't be further out of touch. The training investment and the workflow familiarity will keep me from switching. Which brings us back to the central question, are Apple developers so indoctrinated in their own products that they didn't anticipate the consequences? Could be, but let's hope they wake up to the reality that the Pro Tools issues DO reflect on their hardware and software. Like the TV ads imply, Mac users just want their system to work, without a lot of administration and vendor finger pointing. Avid is certainly not blameless, having fired all of the development team for Pro Tools 8. Scott Church won't be around to fix this problem any time soon, he's moved on. So I'm currently formatting a disk to install Leopard 10.5.8 so I can get back to where I was several days ago. I won't be holding my breath for a quick Avid fix since I don't look great with a blue complexion and I think Avid wants to merge Media Composer and Pro Tools anyway. I guess leading edge audio and video engineers are doomed to using trailing edge computer technology. Any other thoughts? Having just erred in upgrading to 10.6 without testing compatibility, I guess I qualify as one of the dumbasses who thought that Apple might be a bit more in touch with their professional audio user base. Perhaps they believe that with their Logic Pro available, we will all just drop our Pro Tools, but they couldn’t be further out of touch. The training investment and the workflow familiarity will keep me from switching. Which brings us back to the central question, are Apple developers so indoctrinated in their own products that they didn’t anticipate the consequences? Could be, but let’s hope they wake up to the reality that the Pro Tools issues DO reflect on their hardware and software. Like the TV ads imply, Mac users just want their system to work, without a lot of administration and vendor finger pointing.

Avid is certainly not blameless, having fired all of the development team for Pro Tools 8. Scott Church won’t be around to fix this problem any time soon, he’s moved on. So I’m currently formatting a disk to install Leopard 10.5.8 so I can get back to where I was several days ago. I won’t be holding my breath for a quick Avid fix since I don’t look great with a blue complexion and I think Avid wants to merge Media Composer and Pro Tools anyway. I guess leading edge audio and video engineers are doomed to using trailing edge computer technology. Any other thoughts?

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