App launching PT Native vs. PT Rosetta?

[Eric Lambert]

I've been toggling between PT Native and PT Rosetta via the checkbox in the Get Info window, as we all have, but this seems low-rent and unnecessarily cumbersome.

I'd love to have two separate PT icons in my Dock -- one for PT Native and one for PT Rosetta. I imagine there's a way to do it with Keyboard Maestro or SoundFlow macros, but Avid can't expect everyone to take that route.

Anyone know of an easier, faster, more intuitive way of launching PT in a specific mode? I'd actually like to have two separate buttons on my StreamDeck but that's not necessarily a question for this forum.

[Darryl Ramm]

The obvious/easy way is to install Pro Tools 2023.3 twice, renaming at least one of the .app and changing one of the .app to use Rosetta.

It is possible to do what you want with a bit of shell script magic... but no need when the above will work and is easy to do/understand.

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

The obvious/easy way is to install Pro Tools 2023.3 twice, renaming at least one of the .app and changing one of the .app to use Rosetta.

Why not just duplicate the app instead of installing?

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by Ben Jenssen

Why not just duplicate the app instead of installing?

No hard reason... but just not what I've done. Try it!

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

No hard reason... but just not what I've done. Try it!

I'll leave it to Eric.
I've been happy with PT native for quite a while now.

[Eric Lambert]

Originally Posted by Ben Jenssen

I'll leave it to Eric.
I've been happy with PT native for quite a while now.

I'm largely staying in Native but still have too many plugins that require Rosetta, so I'm about 50/50 between them at this point.

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by Ben Jenssen

Why not just duplicate the app instead of installing?

I quote myself because my message perhaps didn't get thru.

Well, I did it myself; I right-clicked the PT app and selected 'Duplicate'.
I set the duplicate to open in Rosetta2.
On opening it gave a standard error 'The application is damaged, trash it…'
This is a standard safety thing in macOS.
I bypassed it by right-clicking and selecting 'Open', and it launched PT in Rosetta mode and I opened and played back my last session without any problem.

I quit, and opened my original PT app - it opened without rosetta (slightly faster and slicker btw.) and played the same session flawlessly. I have not tried to run them both at once - I'll leave that to the brave.

Anyway, I can now open the rosetta or non-rosetta PT without the tedious procedure of opening the getinfobox.

[Darryl Ramm]

Nice.

Originally Posted by Ben Jenssen

I have not tried to run them both at once - I'll leave that to the brave.

macOS is just not going to allows both to run concurrently. Trust me... (Mac enters space-time wormhole and the universe is destroyed...).

[Ben Jenssen]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Nice.
macOS is just not going to allows both to run concurrently. Trust me... (Mac enters space-time wormhole and the universe is destroyed...).

So if the os will not allow it, I guess my procedure is even more viable; you can't inadvertently run both simultaneously.

[moogboy100]

Co Install 2023.3 with 2022.12.

use 2023.3 in native mode, since it's more functional than the public beta

use 20222.12 in Rosetta mode.

Job done.