Updating from DP 7 to DP 10 on a new computer

[pencilina]

With all respect, not my experience. See my sig below. DP10.13 under Mojave is working great! I do a lot of work with VIs, and am really enjoying the performance I'm getting.

I actually saw tremendous improvement in screen redraws with my Gigabyte RX460 GPU when I moved from Sierra to Mojave. (I skipped High Sierra; running the RX460 under Sierra required a DV to HDMI converter to get 4k 60Hz to monitor. Drivers improved a lot in Mojave.)

But yes, phaser74, the 5,1 should be pretty darn awesome compared to your 1,1. And, if you have a spare drive available, you can compare performance under different versions of macOS. Maybe High Sierra will be better than Mojave...

One other thing: Unless it's being sold as a 2009, make sure that 5,1 with a W5690 or X5690 is not a 2009 4,1 that has been flashed to 5,1 status. No Mac Pro shipped with the 5690 CPU as a stock item. Functionally, no difference between years, but a 2009 has components (capacitors!) that are a year or more older than those in a 2010 or 2012. You should pay less for a 2009.

HC, I'm truly _very glad_ you didn't experience the crappy performance I did. My machine was definitely a flashed 4,1 with updated processors so that could have been the issue. All was fine until 10 on Mojave. I tried so many different tweaks and DP10 was a dog. To compound my frustration I'd look at the CPU performance in activity monitor and it didn't seem to be working too hard as none of the processors were anywhere near maxed. I called MOTU and even emailed them a project and the support person told me I was asking a lot of the old machine after seeing my plugin load. Long live hackintoshes.

[mikehalloran]

Long live hackintoshes.

Every Apple engineer I know has built one including my son-in-law. None are using them, however. I thought of building one but decided that life’s too short and I have work to do.

[phaser74]

Hello.

I decided to purchase a 2018 mac mini. It's running Catalina 10.15.7. I downloaded the latest version of DP 10 (i think 10.13?). All my projects from DP 7 opened perfectly in DP 10

The projects are running much smoother on the mini than on my old mac pro 1,1. It feels great to now be able to add new tracks, plug-ins, etc., at will, without worrying about computer issues.

That said, I do have a question regarding my 828mk3 FW. It's working fine and with no issues. The thing is, I don't see the CueMix software that I use to adjust overall monitor volume, input levels, and so forth. Is that something I have to download separately, or does that come packaged with the latest 828mk3 drivers (which I already installed)?

Thank you.