Just upgrade to an ssd. Pro tools does not require 2 drives. It's just best practice with spinning drives. I record to my Samsung ssd with no problems on a 2009 m b p running elcap. Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 8:03 AM, Steve Martin <monkeypushe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The advantage of removing the DVD drive is so you can have two internal Hard > drives. this can come in handy when traveling as Pro tools usually requires > you to record to an separate HD than your system drive and that way you have > two drives internally and won’t have to bring an external USB or etc drive. > Or just to have a separate OS on each drive. >> On Apr 26, 2016, at 6:15 AM, Phil Muir <i...@accessibilitytraining.co.uk> >> wrote: >> >> Gord. You don’t need to remove the DVD drive. You may need to fit a larger >> hard drive and build a Mac installer. That’s easy enough to do using >> command line tools. Just use the bootcamp manager to partition the disk for >> you. Doing that here with my Samsung EVO 500GB drive in this mid 2012 15 >> inch MacBook Pro. >> >> From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Gordon Kent >> Sent: 26 April 2016 02:54 >> To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: my control surface dilemma, a real drag >> >> I might give this serious fault. My >> macbook pro is 4 years old now. If I ever get a newer mac, it will be a >> tower system, not a laptop. I could care less about the new features in el >> capitan. I would rather have pt working the way it should. Maverick solved >> some of the accessibility problems with pro tools not reading certain >> numeric values and the like. And apple still hasn’t made the midi studio >> accessible. If I removed the Dvd drive, I could put in a second HD and run >> boot camp to switch between the os’s if I wanted to. >> Gord >> >> From: Ricky Prevatte >> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 9:40 PM >> To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: my control surface dilemma, a real drag >> >> I am running ProTools 12 and Mavericks. I had problem with Yosemite and had >> to roll back. All of that stuff works well with the latest version of logic >> as well on those older operating systems. I am not going to upgrade myself >> out of house and home I have thisDAW Running well I am going to keep it that >> way. I have a nice quick hard drive in the old laptop I have my CD drive I >> have no interest in a newer Apple Computer. >> >> Ricky Prevatte LMBT1154 >> >> >>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Gordon Kent <dbmu...@cybernex.net> wrote: >>> But don’t I need to be running el capitan >>> to run pro tools 12? I really liked maverick the best, but I would think >>> yossemity would be as far back as you could go. >>> Gord >>> >>> From: Ricky Prevatte >>> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 9:14 PM >>> To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: my control surface dilemma, a real drag >>> >>> Hi Gordon I believe if you took your laptop in and have it rolled back to >>> Mavericks or Yosemite your problem would be solved. If there is an issue >>> that you need the newer update I understand but it may be cheaper and I >>> know there is no learning curve there. I use my Presonus studio live for my >>> console. It will not support El Capitan as well. I just bought a control >>> surface and mackie MCU pro may not support it as well. I have heard that it >>> did run with El Capitan. >>> I am not going to take that chance. But all those surface issues you >>> mentioned could be solved by abandoning El Capitan. >>> Ricky Prevatte LMBT1154 >>> >>> >>>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Gordon Kent <dbmu...@cybernex.net> wrote: >>>> It’s been quite a while since I’ve used pro tools. >>>> Back when I was running pt 10 with the older os’s mountain lion etc., I >>>> had it working great with my alesis master control audio interface/control >>>> surface. Now alesis is no longer supporting it with el capitan. I don’t >>>> think my m-audio project mix or the behringer bcf2000 will work either. >>>> Are we relegated to having to buy the Avid artist series surface? Would >>>> that be good enough or do we really need to spring for the s3. >>>> Gord >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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