Purple Tracks Since El Capitan upgrade

Wow, using an app (GarageBand 6.0.5) on El Capitan that was discontinued many OSX versions ago ... very brave.

Be prepared for more surprises, or upgrade to the current GarageBand app (if possible) that is compatible with El Capitan.

Hope that helps

Edgar Rothermich - LogicProGEM.com

(Author of the "Graphically Enhanced Manuals")

http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/

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Considering Apple significantly hobbled GarageBand 7 and removed all podcasting features, using a newer version is not an option for people who have (probably purposefully) stuck with 6.0.5. Your suggestion is slightly condescending and not helpful.

I have the same issue. I am looking for a solution, too. This dark purple makes viewing the track very difficult.

Same here. If you find a solution, please post it. Thank you!

Condesending is right. Agree with Opperman, the newer versions of Garage Band are useless for Podcasters. I currently edit 4+ hours of shows per week and now with the bright purple tracks I am unable to see in the main window.

Feel your pain, Frank. I'm in the exact same boat. Since we all seem to be podcasters, Levelator exploding was my other big issue. Not sure if anyone else uses it but someone did post a fix which worked for me: https://tidbits.com/article/15966

Hopefully we'll see a fix for GB 6 too. Its impossible to use the main window and I'm pulling my hair out editing in GB 10.

Opperman wrote:

Your suggestion is slightly condescending and not helpful.

Not condescending at all and actually helpful.

If you know Apple, then you know that "backwards compatibility" is not in their DNA. You use an app that is discontinued and not updated for almost 5 years. In Apple terms, that is steam technology territory.

I know that all the great features and improvements in GarageBand 10 aren't helpful if you rely on the podcast feature, which was eliminated. So your only option (in lack of any other app you can use) is to hold on to it as long as possible.

I have a similar problem with the iWeb app and the old Pages app, which I use for my business. Both are discontinued and with every OSX upgrade I'm worried to reach the end of the line. That's how it is. However, if you are in that situation, then you should try the OSX upgrade first on a separate drive or partition to check if it breaks anything.

BTW, did you read any articles about El Capitan and audio apps lately? The internet is full of it and the consensus is, wait until all the software and hardware is supported - if at all (yes there are already some "casualties"). So I don't know why you upgrade your system already in the first week of the new OSX release, especially when using a mission critical app, that is an audio app, and that is discontinued for many years.

Hope that helps (this time)

Edgar Rothermich - LogicProGEM.com

(Author of the "Graphically Enhanced Manuals")

http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/

'I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.'

That's a helpful answer. :-)

Edgar wrote:

Not condescending at all and actually helpful.

If you do say so yourself. Notice, however, I did not click the "this helped me" button.

Well, I tried the beta 10.11.1, but I haven't seen any change in the purple display.

BUT, it gives me some hope there is a set of conditions that will correct the issue. Remove cache files, delete prefs, disable some toe-counting extension... who knows.

FWIW, I submitted feedback about the 10.11.1 beta to Apple via the Feedback Assistant. Long shot, I know, but can't hurt. Other podcasters should do the same.

The current El Capitan release seems to have a more general problem with colors in older software. There is a similar problem in Aperture 3.6 (the cmpatibility update for Yosemite), where all of a sudden photos are appearing to be overexposed, when displayed with onscreen proofing. The handling of colour profiles seems to be broken.

It seems the byte order of the tiff resource file being read is the issue.

From my quick analysis the byte order is supposed to be RGB (per pixel), but is instead of GBR.

I created two new resource files to make the color as readable as possible (it's still not the correct orange-color).

Please make a backup copy of the resources before doing this.

Download this zip file, extract the contents to your Desktop, "right-click" on Garage Band 6.0.5.app and select "Show Package Contents", then drag those two tiff files into the "Resources" folder and overwrite the contents. This applies *only* to external audio files and no other track styles/contents. I have confirmed the issue does not persist in El Capitan 10.11.1 Public Beta.

Please make a backup copy of the resources before doing this.

Before:

After:

Effort much appreciated, Klaser. I gave it a try and, for me personally, its still unusable for editing. That said, for anyone else looking to try this, I can confirm that the wave form is more easily viewed in the main window after this swap. I guess I should go after the public beta since we now have two confirmed reports of it solving the problem.