Hey Scott, Although it is theoretically possible to do that (I know because I've actually had to do it), it's not the best. Pro Tools can be a little sluggish and, depending upon the size of the session, there can be errors when bouncing. That said, I was dealing with 32 tracks at the time and, in all fairness, there was one error the first time I did a bounce but it seemed to work after that without problems. I just made sure to let the bounce go without using VoiceOver for anything while the bounce was in progress. So, it technically works, I just don't know how well under various circumstances. I would imagine a dual partition would work better.
HTH, Slau On Jul 21, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > Out of interest, has anybody ever run Pt in a version of an OS hosted > on an external drive. My thinking was that I could upgrade the > internal to Lion and reap the rewards of general usage, then boot into > 10.6.7 on an external drive when it's time to do PT sessions. > Supposing that can work, would I need two external drives so as to > still be running PT and the OS on a separate drive from the audio > files themselves? > > Any thoughts appreciated... > > Scott > > On 7/21/11, Gordon Kent <dbmu...@cybernex.net> wrote: >> Hello: >> Yeah, I got an email from my sales guy at Sweetwater and he is adamantly >> advising against upgrading to Lion for all his customers. Not only is it >> not compatible with pro tools, but a lot of hardware won’t work either. >> Apparently this is a significant upgrade under the hood. It will probably >> be great once things settle down. >> Gord >> >> From: Slau Halatyn >> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:29 AM >> To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: what about lion? >> >> Pro Tools isn't even compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 so don't even think >> of going to Lion with Pro Tools because it doesn't work. Avid keeps people >> up to date on Pro tools compatibility on their web site. >> >> Best, >> >> Slau >> >> On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: >> >> >> hey! Watch out! It's coming! raoh! >> It brings significant improvements on voice-over, but does anyone know if >> ProTools nine will be compatible with it? Should I upgrade or wait? >> Best, >> JPR >> >> http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel >> http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel >> >>
