Please please help... Catalina + 2022.5 + MBox Pro?

[jd1234]

Hoping someone can help me. I see Catalina works with Pro Tools Ultimate (2022.5), but do both of these work with MBox Pro?

I recently upgraded my IMac from High Sierra to Catalina 10.15.7 and then upgraded Pro Tools from 10 to Pro Tools Ultimate (2022.5). It was suggested by a so called "audio engineer" that this would solve my issues with Pro Tools 10. Thats another story but I am quite concerned that MBox Pro is not compatible with Catalina or Pro Tools 2022.5. Can anyone verify? This chart is what scares me cause I don't see either on here...

https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/ar...d/Mbox-Drivers

Any help would be appreciated. I'm at one of those points where I have been trouble shooting for days and going a bit bizerk.

[albee1952]

Things to consider:
1-Mbox Pro was EOL(End Of Life) several years ago.
2-Apple never gives a hoot about backward compatibility
If it were me, I would stop wasting time and get a new interface. On a really tight budget? Look at Focusrite. Got a little more to spend? Look at MOTU. Got deeper pockets? RME and Metric Halo would be tops on the list

[Darryl Ramm]

And what exact issues were you having with Pro Tools 10? There are lots of nice improvements from Pro Tools 10 standard to 2022 Studio but it would be terrible if all this upgrading does not actually solve your problems. Make sure your system meets minimum specs and you are doing the systems optimizations, and ideally you did a full clean install of macOS not an in situ upgrade.

[albee1952]

Indeed, moving from PT10 to any newer version brings a host of issues. Number 1 being that the old PT10 install will leave a metric ^@&*-ton of useless files on the system. To make that move, a completely fresh install of OS and PT(and everything else) is really the only way to go(and a totally fresh install and tweak on a compatible computer is a good way to clear out old problems).

Darryl raised good points that need to be considered. If you have backups, I would restore back to what worked(High Sierra and PT 10) and work on solving any issues with that software. The big problem with OSX is that Apple doesn't care that it almost always screws up existing stuff with every new update

[Ben Jenssen]

And please give us the basic info on your setup. Your system profile says Windows XP and PT8LE. So people here might help you better.

[smurfyou]

No the MBox Pro is not and never will be compatible with Catalina or above. Avid stopped development and never offered 64 bit drivers.

It stinks because it's what you have but I promise any cheap current USB interface will be better.

[jd1234]

Originally Posted by smurfyou

No the MBox Pro is not and never will be compatible with Catalina or above. Avid stopped development and never offered 64 bit drivers.

It stinks because it's what you have but I promise any cheap current USB interface will be better.

Thanks for the response. I'm really out of touch with equipment these days, its been at least a few years since i was up on it. Can you recommend any specific interfaces ? What about Avid Pro Tools HD interfaces? I don't need the most advanced top of the line stuff but i would prefer something halfway decent.

Also I am assuming the interfaces have SPDIF connections at this point right? I was bypassing the Mbox pro converters & channels and using my own preamp --> converter chain but connecting it to MBox Pro via SPDIF.