Helpppp pleaseee

[batoalways]

I'm using mac Intel early 2008,quad core ,iOS yosemite ,protools hd10,interface 192,one pcie core and one pcie excel hd card,protools , won't play properly,the sound starts and stops,while the locator keeps moving,like the level meter is pumpin up and down ,i heard a strange different sound,from what in the session,

[JFreak]

Please read the Help Us Help You page that is linked to the forum header, thank you

[batoalways]

Thanks ,i added all the info

[Darryl Ramm]

You really need to try to present your info more clearly, so other folks can understand without the punctuation and writing style torture. If you don’t make it easy for other users here you are unlikely to get useful help.

You need to go look at the standard troubleshooting steps again.

You have to tell us exactly what you have tried.

Always start by trashing prefs. Get Peter Gates free PT Prefs utility to make that easy.

When did this start happening? What changed?

Does this happen with all sessions? If you start from scratch with an empty session?

If it is just one session... Are the transport controls doing anything strange, flashing etc? Are you unintentionally hitting a punch in? Or have volume or other automation accidentally doing stuff?

If you switch playback engine to Built-In Output does it happen?

[Ben Jenssen]

Batoalways, I have the very same machine, 2008 single quadcore 2.8ghz, 24gb ram and a two SSDs on pcie-card. 11 years, and it can still do a good job. Enough ram and PCIe SSDs makes it boot in a flash, and it feels snappy as hell.


PT10 on mac os 10.10 is your main problem - I doubt anyone has got that working. My advice to you is, do like me; set up two two boot disks; one with PT10 and an approprate version of OS (I have 10.6.8), and one for everything else (I have 10.12.5). My SSDs have read/write speeds around 500mb per second, so switching between systems is under two minutes.


I'm kinda retired, so I have this setup with PT10 non-hd and Apogee Duet just to be able to open old sessions and sometimes play around. But separating PT from other stuff this way lets you create a very stable system. It also simplifies backups, troubleshooting and such. I also enjoy using my Apogee interface with my Dynaudio BM6 speakers for non-PT stuff.

Or you could upgrade to the latest subscription license of PT, and get a new mac, and update all plugins to axx, and so on...


But with the right treatment the 2008 mac pro can offer some good power still. (Apple won't let you install os above 10.11, though, but 10.12 can be done, and works great for me.)

[batoalways]

yeah you are right, this is what i'm gonna do ,thanks a lot

[batoalways]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

You really need to try to present your info more clearly, so other folks can understand without the punctuation and writing style torture. If you don’t make it easy for other users here you are unlikely to get useful help.

You need to go look at the standard troubleshooting steps again.

You have to tell us exactly what you have tried.

Always start by trashing prefs. Get Peter Gates free PT Prefs utility to make that easy.

When did this start happening? What changed?

Does this happen with all sessions? If you start from scratch with an empty session?

If it is just one session... Are the transport controls doing anything strange, flashing etc? Are you unintentionally hitting a punch in? Or have volume or other automation accidentally doing stuff?

If you switch playback engine to Built-In Output does it happen?

yes it happens with all sessions, but whenever i switch playback engine to built-in output ,everything works fine

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by batoalways

yes it happens with all sessions, but whenever i switch playback engine to built-in output ,everything works fine

Great thanks, normally I would try to then pull out all plugin files and just try to run with the TDM mixer and see if it could work at all...

.... but it sounds like Ben has more specific knowledge for you to follow.

[LDS]

Have you ran digitest to check if there is a fault with your hardware?

[batoalways]

Originally Posted by Ben Jenssen

Batoalways, I have the very same machine, 2008 single quadcore 2.8ghz, 24gb ram and a two SSDs on pcie-card. 11 years, and it can still do a good job. Enough ram and PCIe SSDs makes it boot in a flash, and it feels snappy as hell.


PT10 on mac os 10.10 is your main problem - I doubt anyone has got that working. My advice to you is, do like me; set up two two boot disks; one with PT10 and an approprate version of OS (I have 10.6.8), and one for everything else (I have 10.12.5). My SSDs have read/write speeds around 500mb per second, so switching between systems is under two minutes.


I'm kinda retired, so I have this setup with PT10 non-hd and Apogee Duet just to be able to open old sessions and sometimes play around. But separating PT from other stuff this way lets you create a very stable system. It also simplifies backups, troubleshooting and such. I also enjoy using my Apogee interface with my Dynaudio BM6 speakers for non-PT stuff.

Or you could upgrade to the latest subscription license of PT, and get a new mac, and update all plugins to axx, and so on...


But with the right treatment the 2008 mac pro can offer some good power still. (Apple won't let you install os above 10.11, though, but 10.12 can be done, and works great for me.)

Thanks a lot ,now everything works fine ,thanks