12.5 Rockin' and stable

[29CountsNY]

Interesting, I'm on 10.10.5 also and have been running 12.5 since the day it was released with almost zero issues. Also running super low buffers compared to the 1024 buffer I was stuck on before.
Tried El Capitan and it seemed to hate my video card so I went back to Yosemite and have not been happier!

[zion]

Originally Posted by cut

So when you all went from 12.4 to 12.5 did you just overwrite 12.4? I went to 12.4 from 11.32 but did it on a fresh, Mavericks SSD. I am reluctant to install as 12.4 is solid as hell. I downloaded every plug in and piece of software from the vendor websites so all is up to date. System is amazing. I boot up in 3o seconds and PT is launched in like 20.

I always do a clean install OS and all with every major release like from 10 to 11 to 12 but with point releases I just uninstall Pro Tools and run the clean preference app. I make sure I have all the latest everything (drivers plugins etc.) and I delete all freebie plugins that do not stay up to date. Another thing I do is only install plugins I will use. I get rid of the bloat and I do all Pro Tools optimizations.

[jpellizzi]

Anyone using 12.5 with El Capitan? I haven't updated yet, but I'm on the new retina iMac and suffering from the jumping/stuttery GUI when the mouse is moved during playback. Would absolutely die with happiness if 12.5 solved this issue...

[Aaron ANV]

Originally Posted by jpellizzi

Anyone using 12.5 with El Capitan? I haven't updated yet, but I'm on the new retina iMac and suffering from the jumping/stuttery GUI when the mouse is moved during playback. Would absolutely die with happiness if 12.5 solved this issue...

12.5 fixed the GUI issue for me. 2013 iMac with El Capitan. Everything seems to be running well for me, although I also haven't tried any cloud features yet.

[lukeyy]

Originally Posted by zion

Same here! I can playback and record all native instruments VI's at a 128 buffer with no problems even at high track count. At low track count (about 30 tracks a mixture of VI's and audio) I can run as low as a 64 buffer. It was a lot of work getting it there tho! I must add I could not do it before with and Avid hardware.

a lot of work getting there means? running PT 12.5 with 10.9.5 - stable until I use izotope ozone or native instruments..

[zion]

Originally Posted by jpellizzi

Anyone using 12.5 with El Capitan? I haven't updated yet, but I'm on the new retina iMac and suffering from the jumping/stuttery GUI when the mouse is moved during playback. Would absolutely die with happiness if 12.5 solved this issue...

I have a backup image of Pro Tools 12.5.0 on E I Capitan and let me tell you although it has gotten better with 12.5.0 but from my experience its not ready for prime time. I don't care if the Avid web sight say it is compatible. Yosemite 10.10.5 is way better. I'm staying right here. To be honest with you I really don't see any advantage with E I Capitan.

[Barry Johns]

Originally Posted by Audiofarm

Strange.. I can run several instances of kontakt, omnisphere here at 128 buffer.
I'm on 10.9.5 on a 8 core 4.1 (fastest 2009 Mac Pro)
Not on HDX but Antelope Pure2 as soundcard.
You should have seen the session that was up when tracing the bug I found recently. You wouldn't believe all that was running at the same time..
Pro Tools wont crash either when using 100% RAM like PT10. Just a warning without access violation.

You should upgrade that 2009 Mac Pro to a 12 core. PM me if you want help.

[Carl Lie]

I went for it. I always trash prefs and repair permissions. I also went through my plugs and took out anything that hadn't been updated in a while.

Running fine for me. I find 12.4 and 12.5 to take up more resources though personally. For instance, pretty much all single track freezes are slower than real time. Can't really do much at lower buffers if more than a few virtual instruments are running.

I clicked around quickly and tried to mess it up but it stayed with me.

So much for that.

Thanks for this post. Sort of a counter to my other post about those who were not moving yet.

C

[Watagushu2013]

After an initial weirdness, very well with 12.5HD, HDX1, Mac Pro 2009, OS X 10.8.5.
Just to be safe, I renamed 12.4 and is still in my system. Also PT10HD co-install and very handy sometimes when 12 doesn't work for some tasks (like some AAF, OMF files that 10HD still handles them well)
I do a lot of surround work and music mixing, tons of plugs and automation and video.
The only plugs that behave and crash strangely are the Ik multimedia ones; and some some GUI weirdness on McDSP plugs.





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[tonepad]

Soooo, let's review: I have found along with the well doc'd brother "stanonbass" experience that PT 12.5 is a fail on Win7 (dunno about W10) Buuttt now it seems that it's stable on OS X 10.10 with the caveat of a graphics bug on 10.11 (which BTW I experienced with 12.4 on 10.11 as well so that's an OSX/PT issue in general).

Now that I'm on hiatus and since I rolled my MPro rig back to 10.10 it seems 12.5 may be OK to try? However since this is my PostPro rig where I don't see a need for the collab thing, and I've heard that AVE is not improved after all, could someone tell me any benefits I would miss staying on 12.4?

It seems odd that this is a Win only bug since it's been a long, long time since we've seen OS related issues in PT releases. Ironically I always test new versions on a second Win7 clone drive to flush out issues, so in this case of the W7 fail I went no further.