PT 9 and Mac OS X Lion

[BillDog793]

So with Mac OS X Lion announced to come out in July, how long will it take for Avid to support Lion? I'm hoping less then 3 months, but we all know Avid...

[Craig F]

Pro Tools is on a Quarterly update cycle now so yes probably September at the earliest
Depending on what has changed in the OS maybe December

[BillDog793]

You seem very matter of fact about that, is there somewhere you saw that Pro Tools is on a quarterly update system because this is news to me.

[Craig F]

a) my inside sources
b) the dates:
9.0.3 05-23-2011
9.0.2 03-09-2011
9.0.1 01-05-2011

[BillDog793]

There have only been 3 updates for PT 9 so it's hard for me to just start assuming they will release updates quarterly; the dates of the updates are 2 months apart and then 3 months apart, so why are you assuming there is a fixed amount of time between updates? Why would they stick to releasing updates based on a timeline rather than stability of bug fixes, especially when Lion comes out and every Mac PT user is going to want to upgrade? Do you know the programmers or something?

[Noiselab]

I'd guess that Craig is making assumptions based on previous performance. Anyone who has traded stocks or read a prospectus knows what the language looks like in a typical "forward looking" statement... I'd also like to think that Avid is already looking at the developer releases and SDKs for Lion to get ahead of the curve.

This consideration/observation come's from someone who's previously managed a moderately large-scale dev team working with a well known and relatively complex financial software product in a previous life.

NL

[TimNielsen]

My guess is that because Lion seems to be doing a lot under the hood, it's a much bigger update then Snow Leopard was, and that took a while. I'd guess it's at LEAST six months after it's released. Probably more like 9.

Just my guess.

[Vitu]

They will probably surprise us all and release it on the same day Lion is available…

[hobing]

I remember it took a LOT of time to get PT7 ready for 10.5

[John_Toolbox]

Originally Posted by hobing

I remember it took a LOT of time to get PT7 ready for 10.5

10.5 was a PITA with just about every software I can remember. That was one reason I was so eager to move on to snow leopard.

Lion looks kind of dumbed down to me, but that might be a good thing as long as they don't take away any power user features. I'm hoping the transition from mobileme to icloud will be a little more graceful than the .mac to mobileme debacle.