MachFive No More

[bayswater]

Sigh.

I now fall into the category of geezer.
DP10 and MachFive3 for now. I make my living with this stuff and have no desire to play upgrade games.

Dave

Dave, if getting of the endless merry-go-round of hardware and software updates makes one a geezer, then so be it. Where do I get the badge?

[Michael Canavan]

MachFive 3 hasn't been updated in 8 years now. It's blatantly obvious it never really went away, the license to use the UVI code in M53 was taken back by UVI, and instead is used as the core of Falcon. The only reason M53 core libraries need an older version of Workstation on M1 macs is iLok.

There's nothing wrong with freezing a system and using it until it makes no sense to. That's logical and a smart way of doing business if you can. There's at this point though, nothing unstable about Falcon, and the sheer power of the improvements for some of us are well worth it. Falcon is IMO easily the de facto desert island synth, covers all the bases as well as extensive sampling and obviously UVI library support. In the webinars Matt LePoint still extensively promotes Falcon, I don't think the breakup wasn't amicable. There's a part of me that wished M53 was rolled into DP, but I do occasionally use the looper/sample mangling DAWs like Live and Bitwig, and it's nice to have Falcon there.

[magicd]

Dave, if getting of the endless merry-go-round of hardware and software updates makes one a geezer, then so be it. Where do I get the badge?

I look at it this way. The 1/4" jack on my 1956 Fender Deluxe steel guitar still plugs into my Line6 Helix.

Did I mention the Line6 AX2 amp I played through for 20 years died? When I called Line6 about a repair they just laughed.

I still run a computer with OS 10.6 so I can launch Unisyn.



Dave

[James Steele]

I still run a computer with OS 10.6 so I can launch Unisyn.

I want to set up my old MacPro with Snow Leopard just for that purpose.

[bayswater]

I still run a computer with OS 10.6 so I can launch Unisyn.

Likewise, although I rarely use Unisyn any more. But a Mini running 10.6 makes the ideal server — it never needs restarting, unlike subsequent OS versions.

[60s Pop Man]

Here (will be) the UVIWorkstation 3.0.25 Installer:

https://motunation.com/files/uviworksta ... 25.dmg.zip

NOTICE:
I do not anticipate ANY issues from doing this, but in the litigious *blaming* culture we live in today, I have to issue the disclaimer that I am in no way responsible for any issues any one may have by installing this software.

UVI 3.025 provides access to my MF 3 soundbanks (on an external SSD). System: M1 Mini, macOS 13.2.1, and DP 11.22.
Much appreciated!

I found v3.0.5 thinking that it might be a newer version, but its creation date is 12/14/18.

[Rick Cornish]

I keep an old MacBook with High Sierra around just to run MachFive 3, so I can extract content from my old sample disks. MF3 was great for doing that… a really impressive app for its time.