Comments on: Snow Leopard Watch: Changes, Compatibility, Caution, Native Instruments, Plogue

By: Jack Moffitt

Jack Moffitt — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:24:14 +0000

NI’s Maschine will install from DVD on a fresh Snow Leopard, but the 1.0.3 upgrade fails and removes the application upon failure. Perhaps NI only tested on upgrade installs.

If anyone uses MacPorts at all, that is totally hosed right now if anything you need has python26 in the dependency chain.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:20:01 +0000

Well, running Snow Leopard would NOT be a good reason to switch from Pro Tools to Logic. Snow Leopard is a really big release for Apple, and it lays a foundation for a lot of stuff in the future, but I see really no compelling reason for musicians to upgrade right this instant. Six months would actually be a fairly logical timeframe.

No schedule yet:
“Apple has announced that they will begin shipping the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 64-bit operating system on August 28th. Avid is working closely with Apple to deliver compatible, high-quality versions of Pro Tools® as soon as possible. Please check back periodically for updates on Avid’s Snow Leopard support status.”

By: Daniel Spreadbury

Daniel Spreadbury — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:47:19 +0000

We have released a small update for Sibelius 6 for Mac that provides compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Details here. Older versions of Sibelius are not officially supported on Mac OS X 10.6, but there are no major problems that will prevent them from running; details also at the page above.

By: donald

donald — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:55:21 +0000

Pro Tools anyone ? We gonna wait another 6 months for this to update ?? Anyone ready to bounce from PT to Logic yet ??

By: Mudo

Mudo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:39:15 +0000

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It could possible run appz in 32bits mode?

Maybe a middle way solution…

…

By: griotspeak

griotspeak — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:29:41 +0000

@Peter I wish you had posted something more like that last post as first snow leopard related post. i really appreciate this site and even seek to emulate it soon enough, but that first post didn’t get across the point that this is ’supposed’ to happen, in a sense.

Apple had to change stuff (they didn’t have to push up the release but, for a good number of people, that is good news) and things will have to break.

i am only going to wait to see if logic and/or max break. if those work, i will be a guinea pig.

By: @domtak

@domtak — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:47:12 +0000

@PeterKirn

I’m pointing at NI because Traktor hasn’t worked as proposed with my MacBook Unibody since the day it came out – which is coming up to 9 months now. I’m aware it’s an issue for both them and Apple to resolve but after 9 months still nothing. That’s bad on both parties… especially Apple’s as they’ve developed their operating system further whilst issues still remain.

Ultimately, £1000 for a laptop and £500 for gear is a lot of money to spend when it doesn’t work as advertised.

Sorry 9 months of frustration being vented… :-/

Bringing it back on topic, I totally agree, only upgrade if you either need the extra features or like to keep on top of things. I remember the headache going from PPC to Intel with the Adobe apps… and even the major headache from OS 9 to OS X with virtually every app.

For me gaining back 8 gigs of HD space is a real bonus and generally the speed improvements are welcomed.

But my fan now seems to be permanently on which is slightly concerning… Not very ’snowy’

:))

Dom

By: OSX Snow Leopard : Hold off on updating

OSX Snow Leopard : Hold off on updating — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:00:21 +0000

[...] was all set to wipe my system this weekend and install OSX fresh, but today’s article on CreateDigitalMusic had me thinking otherwise. I almost jumped the gun on this [...]

By: Iced Audio

Iced Audio — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:10:23 +0000

AudioFinder 4.9.5 is tested with Snow Leopard and works well.

By: Ericdano

Ericdano — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:59:51 +0000

It took digidesign about 8 months to get protools working on 10.5. I’m betting maybe December……