GarageBand won't work after installing Pro Tools 8 - MIDI Issue?

I am also having the same issue but running PT 9.0.5 . Garage band has opened once with great difficulty and then never again. I would appreciate it if anybody has a work around for this since I have a bunch of students who will be using this in the upcomming school year.

i'm also having the same issue. I just bought a mac mini with Lion and used time machine to restore from my older mac, which had my version of protools 8 on it. Garageband worked fine until i updated ProTools and now garageband wont open. It bounces on the dock for 10 seconds before (not responding). Im definitely not going to reinstall Lion or ProTools. hoping a fix comes from either Apple or Avid.

We recently ordered a new iMac with Lion. We also ordered ProTools 9 and upgraded to 9.0.5. We had an issue with garageband not opening. So we reinstalled it from app store and then reinstalled Protools by doing a clean uninstall from the uitilities folder of ProTools. We checked GB after the clean uninstall and it opened with no issues. We did the install of PT905 and it also did not create any issues with GB.

HOWEVER - we are using a Digidesign 002 - we needed the drivers for that in order for PT905 to see it. Once we installed drivers from PT website - GB would not open.

However - we found that GB WOULD open if we opened PT905 first.

Contacted AVID about this and they said it is weird - but must be a bug - so reported it.

Apple was not much help... but none of us can figure out WHY GB would care if PT was open or not... but at least for NOW it does.

Hope this helps someone.

Que Tal Amigos, en busca de este problema en diferentes foros, me di a la tarea de traducir cada unos de sus preguntas y dudas ya que no se ingles, por lo tanto espero que se den a la tarea de traducir esto a su idioma ya que tengo la solucion de este Gran Problema que tenemos todos los que actiuaizamos a Lion OSX 10.7...buen ahi les va al parecer uno de los drivers midi de las superficies de control o interfaces de Avid 002 y 003 utilizan este para poder utilizar sus in/out midis ya que si tu eres de los que no tiene esta interfase o no utilizas estas salidas y entradas es preferible que borres o cambies de ubicacion a alguna carpeta "como la de Plugins unused" este archivo...Library/audio/mididrivers/DigiDioMidiDriver

este driver es el que crea conflictos entre Garageband,Logic y Protools, hoy lo he echo y todos mis programas van de maravilla...Protools 8.0.5, Logic 9.0.5 Garageband etc...Espero se de gran ayuda ya que estuve por muchos foros y nunca encontre la respuesta,pero mis pocos conocimientos de audio me hiceron llegar a esta conclucion....saludos y Feliz Dia De Gracias......

atte Mexicano Terco....

I have deleted, following Hans Steve instructions in Spanish, thefile Library/audio/mididrivers/DigiDioMidiDriver and now Garageband Works perfectly.

Had this problem after installing new drivers for my Mbox 2 Pro. Renaming this file did the trick!

what file did you rename and to what? sorry to be specific. thanks.

I've had a lot of trouble with my new Avid Mbox 3 Pro and bundled Pro Tools LE 8 software so I'm glad I stumbled on this page, I was thinking of sending it back to the store.

After installing Pro Tools I couldn't open Garage Band or Ableton Live and couldn't access my computers MIDI preferences in 'Audio MIDI Setup'. I'm about to try deleating that file mentioned above (or should I be renaming it?), hope it helps.

As a warning to anyone running Lion who is buying a third generation Mbox + Pro Tools 8 bundle, turning on my Mbox 3 Pro while my computer was on would instantly and without fail cause it crash. If I tried to start my computer while the Mbox was on it would fail to boot, error text would appear on screen and it would crash before making it to the log in screen. I resolved this by updating Pro Tools to 8.0.5. Not sure why this should make a difference to the way the hardware works but it did.

Just to update, deleating "Library/audio/mididrivers/DigiDioMidiDriver" has fixed the problem as far as I'm aware. Garage Band, Ableton Live and Audio MIDI Setup all seem to work like they did before the Pro Tools LE 8 install.

T H A N K S. U S E S......HAPPY THANKSGIVING...

This is slightly off topic, but i feel as though I am having the worse luck of all. Haha Neither ProTools 8 LE, OR Garageband will work. I have PT 8 installed, but when I insert the Mbox Micro, it says it still cant find the proper hardware. As well, GB ill bounce in the dock for a few minutes then say "application not responding" and subsequently I am lead to force quite. It has opened once in the last twenty or so tries. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Since this problems are known for at least some months now I find it strange Avid still hasn't presented a solution.

On my iMac that DigiDioMidiDriver plug in has been moved automatically to a map called Incompatible Software.

That's clever, but I don't understand why Garageband still won't start up. That plug in is out of the way now, isn't it?

Mil gracias mi cuate, y gloria a Dios; ya me arreglaste mi computadora. Hubo un conflicto entre Garageband y Pro Tools Le 8.0.5 y PTLe causaba muchos quiebros. De nuevo te agradecemos mucho esta solución.