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Posted By oreo1

Re: Impossible for me to buy protools 12 online

for anyone here who may be interested on how my sincere plea to Avid sales has progressed.

The news is not good. No one from Avid sales has called me yet. However, someone from Avid has read...

Forum: Pro Tools 12

11-12-2015, 03:22 PM

Replies: 7

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Posted By oreo1

Re: Impossible for me to buy protools 12 online

Oh I see. Avid regards Apple's Safari to be A second class browser? Who knew?

Forum: Pro Tools 12

11-12-2015, 02:37 PM

Replies: 7

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Posted By oreo1

Re: Impossible for me to buy protools 12 online

actually, there's one other thing that happened during this process that someone at Avid may find worth fixing.

1. During one of my four unsuccessful attempts to purchase Protools 12 online. soon...

Forum: Pro Tools 12

11-12-2015, 12:36 PM

Replies: 7

Views: 3,335

Posted By oreo1

Impossible for me to buy protools 12 online

I have owned Protools for 20 years. Over the past month I have tried four different times to buy, online, a protools 12 upgrade. Each time I get the same response. First I order the upgrade, then I...

Forum: Pro Tools 10

07-01-2015, 12:56 PM

Replies: 12

Cannot see PlugIn/send list

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Posted By oreo1

Re: Cannot see PlugIn/send list

I think there is something very fishy about these recurring and annoying bugs that make it always difficult to use the current version of Protools whenever there is an OS upgrade.

So can someone...

Forum: macOS

10-18-2014, 05:47 PM

Replies: 95

Yosemite came out today.

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Posted By oreo1

Re: Yosemite came out today.

before doing what? I'm just looking for advice. I can only hope that is what your are giving.

Forum: macOS

10-18-2014, 04:57 PM

Replies: 95

Yosemite came out today.

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Posted By oreo1

Re: Yosemite came out today.

Protools 10.3.8 works OK for me on Yosemite. Like others, the only real problem I see so far is that the menus are greyed out until you mouse over them. It's easy to get used to. All the plugins work...

Forum: Pro Tools 10

04-07-2014, 02:57 PM

Replies: 10

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Posted By oreo1

Re: starts OK, but no menus showing

I wrote originally mostly because I figure that my mac/PT system is nothing special. So i guessed that lots of users must be experiencing this disappearing menu bug. And thinking positively, I also...

Forum: Pro Tools 10

04-07-2014, 12:15 PM

Replies: 10

Views: 6,213

Posted By oreo1

Re: starts OK, but no menus showing

I started this threads several months ago, but still haven't got a fix.

In the interim I made two changes that i was hoping would fix the problem. First was a long shot. I got rid of my very old...

Forum: Pro Tools 10

12-12-2013, 02:53 PM

Replies: 10

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Posted By oreo1

Re: starts OK, but no menus showing

Hi Craig,

I'd really appreciate it if you'd check out the fix, as you mention, and get back to me, here, so I can change my Preferences and stop it from happening.

Forum: Pro Tools 10

12-11-2013, 10:55 AM

Replies: 10

Views: 6,213

Posted By oreo1

starts OK, but no menus showing

Whenever I start my PT 10.3.7 on a mac, running Lion, it loads just fine. But the PT menus don't show up, and I still see the mac OS menus. When I click the PT icon in my dock a second time, THEN the...

Forum: macOS

10-09-2013, 10:50 AM

Replies: 3

Unable to activate my owned Avid software

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Posted By oreo1

Re: Unable to activate my owned Avid software

yah that was one of the problems. I finally got through to Avid customer service, and thankfully they gave me a gratis support code, which resulted in a 30 minute tech support repair. I had no idea...

Forum: macOS

10-08-2013, 01:05 PM

Replies: 3

Unable to activate my owned Avid software

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Posted By oreo1

Unable to activate my owned Avid software

My version of Strike 1.5 hasn't been working lately in new Protools sessions. I was getting DAE message 7054. For the past 3 months I have used a workaround by opening an older session with Strike...

Forum: macOS

12-20-2011, 10:31 PM

Replies: 18

Want to upgrade Ram in MAC intel machine

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Posted By oreo1

Re: Want to upgrade Ram in MAC intel machine

another yes to OWC. for years without any problem going back to the days of the audiomedia2 card and SCSI.

Forum: General Discussion

11-15-2011, 01:18 PM

Replies: 2

routing a cue out

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Posted By oreo1

Re: routing a cue out

Hey thanks. i think i can figure that out. i was mostly hoping i wouldn't have add rca to 1/4 adaptors. So it goes.

Forum: General Discussion

11-15-2011, 10:38 AM

Replies: 2

routing a cue out

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Posted By oreo1

routing a cue out

I have a small 4-channel headphone amp that connects to my Digi02 rack's "alt main outputs". If you have a Digi02, you know these are rca connectors. I use this output ONLY because the hard-wired...

Forum: Pro Tools 10

11-13-2011, 09:46 PM

Replies: 0

insert buss to a preamp

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Posted By oreo1

insert buss to a preamp

I recently bought a UA 710 twinfinity preamp. So far, I've only used it as a mic preamp into a non-preamped Digi02 input (input #7). Works good.

The back of the 710 has a line-in as well as a...

Forum: macOS

11-13-2011, 09:35 PM

Replies: 17

PT 10 takes long time to open

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Posted By oreo1

Re: PT 10 takes long time to open

I keep wi-fi on, always, using PT 10 on a new i7 imac. No problems here.

the solution i found for slow session load times, was cleaning up my Lion sharing preference. See the post above, from Mr...

Forum: macOS

11-08-2011, 09:31 AM

Replies: 30

Views: 24,378

Posted By oreo1

Re: anyone using Protools on an SSD?

OK guys, I fixed it. The fix can be found here (http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=290955&page=2).

Many thanks for Mr Darcy, writing on a related thread, who found the fix. It's all about a...

Forum: macOS

11-08-2011, 09:11 AM

Replies: 17

PT 10 takes long time to open

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Posted By oreo1

Re: PT 10 takes long time to open

Whoa!! this tip fixed it for me. One thing. At first look, the names of my computer and my account looked correct. But there was a second name i had given for the shared folder. I deleted that.
...

Forum: macOS

11-07-2011, 02:08 PM

Replies: 30

Views: 24,378

Posted By oreo1

Re: anyone using Protools on an SSD?

thanks for your help Bashville. Yah i turned off Spotlight when i first installed PT 10. Never much liked it anyway. The Spotless Utility is not yet adapted to work with Lion.

KSSSD, are you...

Forum: macOS

11-07-2011, 10:15 AM

Replies: 30

Views: 24,378

Posted By oreo1

Re: anyone using Protools on an SSD?

My audio interface is a Digi02 rack. I have the latest driver.

Yes, I have tried loading sessions off an external firewire drive. I get the same 2:30 lag time while loading them.

I do have...

Forum: macOS

11-07-2011, 08:12 AM

Replies: 30