10.13.6 with 2018.7 ... best version ever!? Holy Sssh

[WarrenG]

Originally Posted by xrekcor

nice machine man, 1 step up from mine..... the i9 chip.... was too many chips outa my pocket if I wanted 1t ssd and 32gb ram upgrades. are you talking about the start up screen? when I first started up PT the first few times it did seem to hang but can't remember what was loading at that time. seems to start up in about 10 secs now.

Sorry, been away for a few days...

Yes, the "freeze" is on the startup screen, when it says that it's setting up MIDI devices. Just stops for 45 seconds. I don't think this is a ProTools problem as such though because I get the same delay opening up Live. I'd guess something in the MIDI subsystem? I'll do a bit of digging around.

I have installed the latest 10.13.6 sup 2 update. Couldn't see a reason not to as it was brand new out of the box. I did this before installing everything, which took an age....

Haven't had too much time yet to test how things are but I'm not seeing a great deal of difference in cpu usage at different buffer sizes. This is a big difference to what I saw on previous versions. And I'd just got used to playing slightly ahead to compensate for that extra latency...

The only problem I do have after installing everything is that Structure doesn't have anything in its database. I can find the samples and instruments and these load up fine. If I go into Database it says that it's building the database and this could take some time. I think we're talking time in geological proportions here because I've left it for ages and still nothing. This is particularly dumb as I've run the disk speed checker on that drive and it's reading and writing at close to 3GB/s. Leaving it for an hour means that it could in theory read over 10TB and I don't think that the Structure library is quite that big!. If it is I'd like to know how it fits onto the drive...

[Becharax]

Well I am scared to update from 10.13.3 unless Avid reallly gives us the green light !

[innesireinar]

Originally Posted by toolz

This is awesome news ) as you know, I've been plagued with the same issue as you )

Yes, 10.3.6 works flawless like yosemite. This OS update and PT 2018.7 is the best setup since a couple of years. I hope they will be able to fix the rounding error at least on midi clips that drives me crazy

[Franklyn]

whats going on here :)
Avid says that 10.13.4 is not qualified because of CPU overloads and all the people here says exactly the opposite.
:) maybe I will give 10.13.6 a chance.

But I don't think it solves the CPU spikes with big plug in chains on masters.
that would be too cool.

[jkess]

Originally Posted by Franklyn

whats going on here :)
......
But I don't think it solves the CPU spikes with big plug in chains on masters.
that would be too cool.

1) Can anyone confirm the above? I run into CPU spikes with very intensive Plug In loads on master tracks even at the highest buffer settings. Does this upgrade solve this issue or improve on recent OS-PT combinations?

2) I think I am reading conflicting reports here on Buffer setting improvement. Has anyone found that the latest OS-PT combination has forced the buffer setting to be higher than previous versions?

Big thanks.

[AlexLakis]

Originally Posted by jkess

1) Can anyone confirm the above? I run into CPU spikes with very intensive Plug In loads on master tracks even at the highest buffer settings. Does this upgrade solve this issue or improve on recent OS-PT combinations?

Have you tried systematically removing third-party plugins from your system until the problem potentially disappears? In the past, when I've heard about CPU spikes at high buffer sizes its due to a plugin that needs to be updated or removed (remember, you can experience CPU spikes due to a plugin that is simply loaded when Pro Tools starts; it doesn't have to be inserted in the session.)

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by Benny_Cha_Cha

Has anyone tried a clean install and then using migration assistant successfully?

Has anyone tried to play russian roulette and survived?

[Benny_Cha_Cha]

Sure, this would be an apt analogy if one was able to start up one’s body from a different partition.


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[Mattian]

Originally Posted by LoudBassTone

Can anyone tell me if I update to 10.13.6 from Sierra 10.12.6, which file format should I use? APFS? How will this effect my other drives? Recording, Sample Lib, etc.

Probably a clean install would be best?

Thanks

You should convert to APFS only if you use SSD, not with HD

[Sergius]

Originally Posted by innesireinar

I love you man... by updating to 10.3.6 the CPU I no longer have spikes.
I think that was a graphic issue because by closing the edit window the sparks went away as well. BTW now it seems that the 10.3.6 has fixed this. Don't understand why Avid is still on the 10.3.3 recommendation

I was just looking into this. I was on 2018.7 and macOS 10.3.5 and it was a nightmare. Went back to 2018.4 and things are running soother. Then I saw Avid's 10.3.3 alerting not to go past that...

Does anyone else have more info on if 10.3.6 and PT 2018.7 is good to go?