Leopard 10.5.5 and Pro Tools LE 7.4.2

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Leopard 10.5.5 and Pro Tools LE 7.4.2

I was looking to see if anyone had installed 10.5.5 and has the latest Pro Tools LE running 7.4.2 but did not find anything so I will not upgrade my Mac Pro until Digidesign says it is approved on their web site. It's sad to see so many people having issues with this update, I would repair your disk permissions and see if that helps. If anyone has installed this with a Pr Tools LE system I would like to hear from you. A friend of mine did it and said Pro Tools was not able to launch afterwards and itunes also had issues. So beware PT users, better to wait and see what digi has to say. It usually takes them a week to make some kind of an announcement when Apple releases an update.
I did install the update 10.5.5 on my MacbookPro and have not had any issues yet but time will tell. I do not have Pro Tools installed on it.

Mac Pro 8 core 2.8, Macbook Pro, Power Mac G5 duel 1.8, iphone 3G, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Sep 19, 2008 12:33 PM

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Answer 1

nerowolfe

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Sep 19, 2008 2:20 PM in response to Lance Mcvickar

Lance Mcvickar wrote:
I was looking to see if anyone had installed 10.5.5 and has the latest Pro Tools LE running 7.4.2 but did not find anything so I will not upgrade my Mac Pro until Digidesign says it is approved on their web site. It's sad to see so many people having issues with this update,

Why do you say "so many?" There are millions of Leopard installs and all i see are a few problems, and most of them are the result of faulty 3rd party apps or improperly prepared machines.
Do you really expect to see this board fill up with comments by all these millions who have not had any problems??
This is a trouble-shooting board. Of course all you see are problems. But when you say "so many people having issues" you must be joking. And if you took the time to look carefully, you would see that many of these issues have been resolved. And not one of them AFAIK was the fault of the update.
If people have out-dated software they should not be blaming Apple for updating theirs. They should be blaming the other 3rd party vendors for lagging behind.

I have 3 machines running 10.5.5 and they are all running perfectly and the updates also went perfectly. It's not luck, it's paying attention to the details.

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Answer 2

Sep 19, 2008 2:58 PM in response to nerowolfe

Well if this is the discussion board why are you scolding me, you did not respond to my question about Pro Tools which was my main question. I have five macs and I have had issues with updates in the past and yes I saw a lot of posts with issues with the new update. So light'n up dude. I am an old time mac user since the IIfx of many years and thousands of dollars. I said my update was fine and offered some advise to those having issues with the update ala "repairing permissions". But I and other pro users have had issues with Leopard and Final Cut, Compressor, Pro Tools etc, too many to list so don't give me your lip. I love Apple but there are times when they release things before they are quite up to snuff, even Steve said it was a mistake to release the iphone 3g, mobile me and the app store at the same time and yes there were some major issues. My idisk contents were erased by Apple when they did switch my account over to mobile me, syncing was not working and pushing data from the iphone was also buggy. I am one of the few pro users I know that always has my system up to date as soon as I can, some others are scarred from some past experiences that the machine they use to make their day to day income will have issues and they will not be able to do their work. That is a fact, not from not paying attention to details.
Why are you responding to my post in the first place, you offered no insight to my question? Just looking to badger people?

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nerowolfe

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Sep 19, 2008 3:14 PM in response to Lance Mcvickar

Protools says that their product is "fully qualified" for 10.5.4.
I would still point out that whether or not protools works with 10.5.5 has nothing to do with other issues people are having installing 10.5.5. These are two separate issues.
If you need ProTools and cannot wait for them to catch up, then stick with 10.5.4 but unless you have some other issue with 10.5.5, there is no need to comment about some issues others are having and generalizing.
Perhaps you need to update from the LE to the full version of protools?

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Answer 4

Sep 19, 2008 3:47 PM in response to nerowolfe

Yes you are right I should not generalize about updates.
That is what you should have said in the first place.
I already stated that Digidesign lags behind Apple in dealing with Apple updates how could they not, and sometimes they need to write a new version of Pro Tools before you can update your computer to a new Apple update, or you may not be able to run Pro Tools at all and that could be weeks to months.
Digidesign always posts a message after a new Apple update but it can take them weeks before they will say it is or is not compatible with Apple's update because they haft to test it first.

"Perhaps you need to update from the LE to the full version of protools?"
That is speculation on your part.
LE is a different version/system than HD, two different systems all together there is no "full version" it is one or the other. LE works using the mac processors and HD uses it's own proprietary hardware via pci cards.
My question was "If anyone has installed 10.5.5 with a Pro Tools LE system I would like to hear from you." to find out if it was running ok for them.
Thanks

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Answer 5

Sep 20, 2008 6:11 AM in response to nerowolfe

Perhaps you need to update from the LE to the full version of protools?

Clearly you are not a Protools user. If you were you would know that the two versions LE and HD are aimed at different users. It would not be appropriate or necessary for most LE users to update to HD.

Digidesign are very slow to test newer versions of OS X which is why many of us test for ourselves.

What I don't get is why you even bothered to reply to the OP if you didn't have anything useful or constructive to say.

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Answer 6

Sep 20, 2008 9:07 AM in response to Noiseboy2006

Thanks for the backup Noiseboy2006. Good clear response.

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Answer 7

Sep 20, 2008 12:34 PM in response to Lance Mcvickar

No problem Lance.

BTW Protools seems to be behaving itself under 10.5.5 so far for me. I keep an Tiger install on separate external drive just in case but haven't had to use it since I upgraded to PT 7.4.2 LE.

I haven't had any problems with the 10.5.5 update at all but that doesn't mean others aren't going through the usual update issues even if they are in the minority.

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Answer 8

Sep 20, 2008 12:59 PM in response to Noiseboy2006

Thanks that's good to know.

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ninou

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Sep 23, 2008 2:30 PM in response to Lance Mcvickar

hey, i just read your post, and i thought you could help me out, i'm having troubles with sound through the digi 002,i think that it could be the digi core app, cause PT LE 7.4.2 does work well, but when i want to listen to something on itunes or the net, i have QT 7.5.5 ver. and i do not run any third party apps. HELP!.

thanks

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Answer 10

Sep 23, 2008 2:47 PM in response to ninou

There is a problem with Core Audio and the standalone Digidesign Core Audio drivers. If you look at Activity Monitor you'll probably see that Core Audio is not responding. If this is the case the only thing you can do is wait for an updated driver form Digidesign.

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Answer 11

Sep 23, 2008 2:54 PM in response to ninou

Hey ninou,
I have never liked the digi core audio setup and do not run anything out of my 002 but Pro Tools. My friend had a client who is a PTLE user who installed the new 10.5.5 update and the new quicktime and he had major issues with core audio Pro Tools and itunes.
I am waiting for digi to say if Pro Tools LE is compatable with the 10.5.5 update.
One thing you can check is your macs system prefs / sound / you may need to click on digi core audio in the list of options if it is in the list that is just a guess on my part or try setting the output to something new and then go to digi core audio. Quicktime has its own sound prefs as well sometime there can be a conflict even with the app itself as for as sound out prefs go. I found the core audio to be a bit fussy but have not installed it in a while. I have my mac and other sound outputs going straight to my amp digitally via USB and Optical connections. YOu could also try erasing your digi core preferences in your user /library/ system preferences or uninstall the core driver and reinstall it.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
L

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Answer 12

Sep 23, 2008 3:35 PM in response to Lance Mcvickar

Thanks Noiseboy I did not see your post until after I wrote mine.

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Answer 13

Sep 26, 2008 5:51 PM in response to Lance Mcvickar

Anybody out there running LE 7.4.2 with 10.5.5 on an MBox2 micro? I can't get the Powerbook Pro to recognize the mBox

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Answer 14

Sep 26, 2008 7:39 PM in response to Michael Mason1

My Macbook Pro is up to date and was running 10.5.5 and Pro Tools LE 7.4.2 with no issues. Did it work before you updated to !0.5.5? You need to be a little more specific. When you launch PT what error do you get? Or are you trying to get other apps to output out of the Mbox.

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Answer 15

Sep 26, 2008 11:39 PM in response to Lance Mcvickar

PT isn't recognizing the hardware. I plugged my old mbox in and it launched fine. I also used the micro on another computer runnning 7.4 and Tiger and it worked as well.

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