digitaldoom Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 M-Audio finally just released drives for Leopard and my hardware ProjectMix I/O. Is an upgrade from Tiger to Leopard ok? I have the following installed and configured in Tiger: * Boot Camp and Windows XP (Installed on a Seperate Partition) (I read this will get upgraded if after I boot into XP and insert the Leopard DVD) * Logic/Ableton Live * Deactivated Apple's Default Web Server (Apache 1.x) and configured Apache 2.0 as well as: PHP 5 and Tomcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E8s Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Let me ask, why do you want to upgrade to Leopard anyway? If your system is currently working as is, you might wait to see what experience other people have with those brand new M audio drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldoom Posted July 13, 2008 Author Share Posted July 13, 2008 Let me ask, why do you want to upgrade to Leopard anyway? If your system is currently working as is, you might wait to see what experience other people have with those brand new M audio drivers. Compatibility with some people I know using Leopard for things like iChat Video Conferencing and Remote Support. Oh and Time Machine for it's backup abilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E8s Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 That stuff is cool but is this your main DAW machine or a general use pc? My colleagues don't actually like Time Machine also although I've never used it so I can't speak of the problems specifically. I use and really like Super Duper for making backups. Many other people seem to prefer it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwackman Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 If you use any Spectronics plug-ins you're in for a bit of hassle. I changed to 10.5 and got stung with their Trilogy. Other than that, for me it was OK. Woulsn't bust a gut to do it though unless you need to. Time machine is good, but really, you could just back your important files regularly yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 What machine do you have? Intel? PPC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pauper1 Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 i have projectmix i/o and i installed leopard last fall when it came out, way before m-audio updated the drivers, everything worked fine . but thats cuz my mac pro is intel. ppc/ibm could be a different story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwackman Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 [quote="1pauper1" but thats cuz my mac pro is intel. . Ignore my comments about Spectronics stuff then. You'll have already had trouble if you were using them on an intel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestigbeestje Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Since I upgraded to leopard I'm having crackled audio. The output of my external soundcards stutters. If I reset the sample rate it dissapears for a couple of minutes but then it comes back. When recording, logic keeps giving me errors that the midi could not be sync'd with the audio. If I afterwards play the recording on my internal soundcard, there is no crackle. I record with a presonus firepod and a firestudio project. Presonus says that the drivers are compatible. Does anyone have a solution for this? I'm I missing something.. Oww yeah, another thing, in logic pro, while recording, the HD usage indicator pulses like crazy, goes almost till red and back. I'm using a 2.4 Ghz 4gb RAM macbook pro 5400rpm HD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pauper1 Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 hey kwackman, i'm thinkin' about upgrading ez-drummer with the new S2.0 are you liking it so far ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldoom Posted July 13, 2008 Author Share Posted July 13, 2008 What machine do you have? Intel? PPC? 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldoom Posted July 13, 2008 Author Share Posted July 13, 2008 [quote="1pauper1"but thats cuz my mac pro is intel. . Ignore my comments about Spectronics stuff then. You'll have already had trouble if you were using them on an intel! At least Stylus RMX appears to work fine... http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/rmxfeatures/archives/2004/10/24/system-recommendations/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldoom Posted July 13, 2008 Author Share Posted July 13, 2008 That stuff is cool but is this your main DAW machine or a general use pc? My colleagues don't actually like Time Machine also although I've never used it so I can't speak of the problems specifically. I use and really like Super Duper for making backups. Many other people seem to prefer it too. Yes this is my main DAW machine, but if the M-Audio drivers are stable (which I believe they are), everything should (i think) be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E8s Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Yeah, if you don't have lots of third party plugins, and it's really only the m-audio drivers that were an issue you will probably be alright. I wouldn't expect a problem with Logic or Live. One thing you could do (I do this before even the smallest system update) is clone your boot drive so that in the event that things don't work out you can go right back. I know I pitched this software before - I promise I don't work for these guys - but Super Duper is pretty inexpensive and will do this for you. Of course you have to have an empty firewire drive sitting around to make the bootable clone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwackman Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 hey kwackman, i'm thinkin' about upgrading ez-drummer with the new S2.0 are you liking it so far ? Yup- great sounds. If you do go for it and want a hyperset PM me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldoom Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 Yeah, if you don't have lots of third party plugins, and it's really only the m-audio drivers that were an issue you will probably be alright. I wouldn't expect a problem with Logic or Live. One thing you could do (I do this before even the smallest system update) is clone your boot drive so that in the event that things don't work out you can go right back. I know I pitched this software before - I promise I don't work for these guys - but Super Duper is pretty inexpensive and will do this for you. Of course you have to have an empty firewire drive sitting around to make the bootable clone. Super Duper is awesome, I used that awhile back to clone my main drive when I bought another HDD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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