MAC SYSTEM 9

[Mini Me]

Will the new Mac System 9 be compatible with ProTools?
Thanks.

[tnie]

Wait until System 10 and the G5 which will be introduced next year maybe the same time as 96khz.

[Gremz]

What's the story on the G5?

I just bought a G4. Should I have waited?

Scott

[Didier de Roos]

Watch out for PACE protection! It is supposedly NOT compatible at all with MacOS9. Check MacFixit.com for details...

Didier

[batman]

Didier
PACE protection is not compatible with jack-*****e ....

[[Benjamin]]

a point..
you need:
1) a half decent mac (a 9600 200mhz+)
2) a decent bunch of pci slots (you don't get that with newer macs, and what's with the price-tag on PCI-expansion chassis, I mean, that's just ridiculous)
3) a decent bunch of dsp cards
4) a stable system (so don't jump the gun)
5) pretty fast scsi & nice disks to go with it
6) good housekeeping practices
7) don't erase any files on your disk between formats of you don't have to, that helps a lot

-this is the key to a fast, solid, good PT-system. As for the Q about OS9, sure it'll be compatible, it always is, one way or the other, but wait for 9.1, always wait for the .1 version.



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[HYPERSONIC]

[Eric Lambert]

I waited for 8.1 and it never did work...constant crashes on my 9500, so I had to go back to 8.0. Never did figure out why...

[Ed Douglas]

So far OS 9 rocks running PT 4.3.2 (PowerMix) on my WallStreet Powerbook. It also works well on my 8500 with a XLR8 400mHz G3 card, AMIII and PT 4.3.2.

NO MORE -42!!!!

Just be sure that you have plenty of RAM though, with VM disabled, the OS occupies 42+ Mb of memory.

Also note that Disk I/O based systems (PTIII, at least - I've tested) won't work under OS 9, due to a change in OS9's file system calls. I hope Digi will recode the DAE deck for those systems.
I have not tested OS9 with a d24, Mix or Mix+ system.

For me OS9, PT 4.3.2, PowerMix and a Powerbook are a great team - I plan on picking up A VX Pocket card soon to complete a very capable portable rig.

E.D.

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Neotech Concepts
Toronto, Canada
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