Mountain lion compatibility

[TLarvenz]

I believe that Avid already stated that development has come to an end for PT9 with the release of 9.0.6 when they released PT10, in addition to saying that legacy hardware wouldn't be supported past 10. If it doesn't work now, I seriously doubt that it ever will.

For those who take the leap, please post your experiences with 10.8 for those of us interested.

Originally Posted by YYR123

Don't hold ur breath buddy (about avid stating that they will or will not support -PT9)!!! - if u need PT9 don't upgrade from Lion- the new O/S will not change ur life !!!!! It will probably work just let someone else take the first jump and get all the kinks out

[BenP]

Hi everyone! Here's an update on my upgrade woes...

Quick Situation Review:
- Was running OS X 10.6.7 with PT 9.0.3
- Upgraded to OS X 10.8.
- PT not working anymore
- Attempted to upgrade to PT 9.0.6
- PT 9.0.6 Updater deleted my PT 9.0.3 app and then crashed.
- A full install of PT 9.x was now needed.
- The PT 9.0.5 Full Installer link was not working on the AVID site.


The '9.0.5 Full Installer' file link in my 'AVID Account - Downloads' page was apparently fixed this afternoon. After repeated attempts to download it yesterday and this morning (with an AVID error screen indicating that the file was no longer available), it successfully downloaded this evening.

For anyone in my situation, you might run into these problems. Hopefully, this will help.

The 'Pro_Tools_905_Full_Installer_72732' would not run by itself for some reason. I had to launch the 'Installer.app' manually and then load the 'Install Pro Tools.mpkg' from the dialog box. This successfully ran the installer and restored ProTools v9.0.5 to my system.

After that, I had to do the same thing with the 'Pro_Tools_906_Updater_74249' disk image. The manual process was successful and my computer showed the PT application as being v9.0.6. Updating the drivers was next.

Unfortunately, re-installing the input drivers proved problematic as well. I'm running with a OO3 Rack. After mounting the driver update disk image, I tried to run the installer and received a system error stating that the file was "..damaged and can't be opened. You should eject the disk image." I presumed that the problem was OS related like the other installer issues and manually ran the driver installer. It was successful.

I launched my ProTools application and loaded a current project. I had one plug-in (Moogerfooger) that wasn't found, but otherwise, everything seems to work now.

I do want to mention that the 'DigiDioMidiDriver_v90_Fix_70303' disk image that contains the MIDI drivers would not run at all. After mounting the image and double clicking the contained app, I received the error "The operation couldn't be completed. (OSStatus error 100030.)" Due to the fact that I don't have or run any MIDI devices, this failure was not important to me and I spent no additional time trying to figure it out. It acknowledge that it might be important to someone else.

I'm assuming that my Waves Diamond plugins will work. I haven't installed them yet. Unless I post another update (or someone asks for more information), you can assume that I'm back up and running.


- Ben

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MacPro Dual Quad Core 2.8GHz / OSX 10.8 / 8GB RAM
PT 9.0.6 / OO3 Rack+ / Waves Diamond

[lemonkid]

Originally Posted by BenP

> Did you not Clone your drive first????

I didn't clone the drive. I honestly have no idea how that's done other than being aware that it has something to do with 'Time Machine'.


> When i did my install i had 9.0.6 and waves 9 already. i did
> receive an email from avid about installing on 10.8 and having
> to do a special key combination to disable the unique identifier
> thing but cant seem to find it.... but i did find this. Hope that helps

I've been using PT since v3.x. Have never heard a peep from them - other than sales spam. The online docs are difficult (for me) to locate and seem to have conflicting information about system compatibility and update processes.

I tried re-running my v9.0.2 full installer. No luck. The installer launches but then won't do anything. It just bounces in the dock for a while and the stops. CTL-clicking the icon indicates that the 'Application is not Responding'.

My PT v9 software was a download purchase. And, the last installation discs I have are from v7. (Will these work on OSX10.8?) The software download page in my online Avid Account has links for the current (v9.x) installers, but when I try to download them, I get a message stating that the download files no longer exist.

So... I'm stuck.


- Ben

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MacPro Dual Quad Core 2.8GHz
8GB ram
OS 10.8
ProTools v9.0.3
Digi003
Waves Diamond v9
Dual 24" Monitors

9.0.2 doesn't work on lion or mountainL use 9.0.5 instead. and apply the 9.06 update. Install from your ORIGINAL admin's account. Not just from another account with admin's rights

[BenP]

9.0.2 doesn't work on lion or mountainL use 9.0.5 instead. and apply the 9.06 update. Install from your ORIGINAL admin's account. Not just from another account with admin's rights

I knew the v9.0.2 didn't work with Lion/Mountain Lion. The attempt to run that installer was purely to get ProTools back on my hard drive. When I ran the v9.0.6 updater the first time, it deleted the ProTools application from the drive and then failed to complete the upgrade process - leaving me with nothing to retry the updater on. Any subsequent attempt returned a 'you don't have a valid v9.x application to update' message.

At the time, the v9.0.5 Full Installer link on the AVID website was returning a 'file no longer available' error. So, trying to use the v9.0.2 full installer was my only remaining option.

As I mentioned in my post last night, the link to the v9.0.5 Full Installer was apparently fixed sometime yesterday afternoon and I was able to successfully download and run that installer and the v9.0.6 Updater.

My system appears to be functioning again. Life is good!


- Ben

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MacPro Dual Quad Core 2.8GHz / OSX 10.8 / 8GB RAM / Dual 24" Monitors
PT 9.0.6 / OO3 Rack+ / Waves Diamond v9
Media 100 Suite v2.1.2 / BorisRED v5 / Adobe CS5

[frank55]

I got a problem
I already updated to Mountain lion but i forgot to check that
protools9 cant work on new mac system
how should i do?

[2224]

Originally Posted by artguilljr

FYI Cloned my drive, installed 10.8 Mountain Lion and all my sessions with plug ins have opened up just fine...

2012 Mac Pro 2 x 2.4 quad
with 14 gig Ram
Apogee ensemble
Pro Tools 9.0.6

Oh yeah you can Stream Audio Via Airplay!!!!! pretty cool! Shows up in the Playback Engine menu ! No More Bounces to listen to mixes on my stereo! looks like im investing in an airport extreme for my other reference system!

Why do you need airport extreme

[artguilljr]

Sorry, meant an Airport Express.

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by benp

4) the pt website indicated that 10.8 was ok to run with pt 9.

really ??????

[bigluc]

So what is the general consensus, does PT 9.0.6 work with Mountain Lion 10.8? What new bugs are people experiencing?

[TLarvenz]

I was wondering if it works with 9.0.5. I seem to recall people saying to stay on 9.0.5 if possible a while back (before the Mountain Lion upgrade).