Just a reply to some of the discussion for this topic....the question of who needs to make the update, either Apple or Avid is clearly Avid. The entire structure of how files are handled was changed with the new time machine style versioning and upcoming cloud functionality. Avid will have to modify their file writing components and possibly add support for full screen mode, the "always available" functionality that never actually closes an application on your machine and several other new options if they choose to support them. This will most likely take them a long time if they really want to fully support the benefits of Lion....you saw how long it took to move from Leopard to Snow Leopard and that was not as significant of an upgrade. On a more positive note, there may be a way to run Pro Tools in Lion but that would absolutely not be for production purposes because it is of course not supported. I have not done this yet but plan to try. Lion natively runs in 64bit mode and this is one of the reasons why not only Pro Tools but a lot of hardware does not work in Lion. If you run it in 32bit mode you may be able to get this to work. SL does not run natively in 64bit. If you hold down the 3 and 2 on your keyboard when you boot you will boot into 32 bit mode in Lion...this may allow you to run Pro Tools and may allow some hardware without 64bit drivers to work. I have a Tascam FW1884 that did not work in 64bit mode but did work in 32bit mode. I have read many posts of people getting Pro Tools to work in 32bit mode in Lion. You would lose any memory over 4gb so this is not good for everyone. And in a professional production environment you would not want to try this at all. But it might be okay for those who just want to experiment or have no looming deadlines. Use this info at your own risk.....BTW hold down 6 and 4 to return to the 64bit mode....how clever of Apple!
Slau Halatyn wrote: > 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 > >> > >>
