Anyone using version 5 on Intel?

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:54 pm

Lots of differing opinions. Giles said 5.13 is grossly unstable for him. It's been the MOST stable platform for me since the OS9 (2001) days. I've essentially had zero crashes in the past 4 months, but there was a file that got corrupted. Magic Dave at MOTU was able to revive it, though. So, if we consider that a success, and it was, then my record over the past 4 months has been perfect.

I'm having a ball with 5.13 on an Intel Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Dual-Duo (February 2007). Leopard 10.5.2. Kontakt2 Player with 4 Garritan packages, MOTU Symphonic Instrument, Mach 5.2, Ivory, Akoustik Piano, Wallander Instruments, Waves Platinum... Probably other things, but you get the idea, I'm sure.

Shooshie

midilance · Post by **midilance** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:04 pm

I'm running DP 5.13 with OS 10.4.11 without a crash. Check my signature for my setup.

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:36 pm

labman wrote:
Frodo wrote:I haven't used DP5 much in Leopard, but most all of my work is in Tiger 10.4.11 on a MacPro 3G Quad with 5.13. There were a few strange glitches that all but shut me down in the early months, but things really have been holding steady since about October. No kernel panics since.
Frodo,

What version of Quicktime are you using on that macpro?

Thanks

Regards,
DLevy
mgr, Legacy Lab

Running QT v. 7.4.1.

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:31 pm

Ah-- just got notice that QT 7.4.5 is out as of about an hour or two ago...

iTunes 7.6.2 has also been released today.

martian · Post by **martian** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:46 pm

I be working very hard on 5.11 - and everything seems dandy now!!

no way am I gonna update quicktime at this point!!!

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:17 pm

martian wrote: no way am I gonna update quicktime at this point!!!

Yeah- I'm going to hang with 7.4.1 for a good while longer until something else pops up for Tiger... since 10.4.11 appears to be the last of Tiger.

I may move ahead with the new update on my Leopard drive now that 10.5.3 has been seeded to developers.

andrewj · Post by **andrewj** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:13 am

Hi I am sorry. 5.12 is the version I use! It is rocksolid on a MacPro Quad Intel! At least in my setup!

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:14 am

MAking sure it's clarified.

It's unstable during a MIX..... 60+ tracks going and a ton of plugins... BAM!!!! Crash.....

I just want this part of life over. LOL.. I am running Leopard as well. It was more stable under 10.4, but I am not downgrading my OS.

Actually under 10.4 it was ROCK SOLID.

Shooshie wrote:Lots of differing opinions. Giles said 5.13 is grossly unstable for him. It's been the MOST stable platform for me since the OS9 (2001) days. I've essentially had zero crashes in the past 4 months, but there was a file that got corrupted. Magic Dave at MOTU was able to revive it, though. So, if we consider that a success, and it was, then my record over the past 4 months has been perfect.

I'm having a ball with 5.13 on an Intel Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Dual-Duo (February 2007). Leopard 10.5.2. Kontakt2 Player with 4 Garritan packages, MOTU Symphonic Instrument, Mach 5.2, Ivory, Akoustik Piano, Wallander Instruments, Waves Platinum... Probably other things, but you get the idea, I'm sure.

Shooshie

jeronimo · Post by **jeronimo** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:17 am

5.12 with 10.4.10 on a macbook 2ghz dual core.
I don't remember the last time I had a crash...
ohh, by the way, I only mix with it...

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:16 am

I'm using 5.13 on my Mac Pro on a daily basis. This puppy gets heavy use. I've been crash free. Yay!!!

Phil

giles117 · Post by **giles117** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:02 pm

After checking this thread, decided to do some digging. Time machine was an issue and syslogd was an issue. When syslogd is Draining compute cycles DP gets flakey....

Hopefully apple has fixed this issue in 10.5.3 though I dont see this listed in the developer logs as being fixed. But then you know apple. LOL.

I swear, as the days go by I hate Logic more and more for mixing. I decided to do an AAF export of a track I was mixing in logic. Pulled it into DP adjusted faders and it sound 100x better.

Hopefully with TM off, I can mix this song in DP without issue.

I will miss logics Modulation plugins which KILL DP. and the new Compressor. DP 6 should eliminate that lust. PLUS UA finally dropped the dbx 160 comp I have been asking for for the past 4 years. LOL.

THANKS UA....

quincyg · Post by **quincyg** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:12 pm

wondering if people on mac pros running tiger are having problems or if the problems are leopard related. i am picking up a mac pro this week, but am going to order it with tiger.

aizo · Post by **aizo** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:21 pm

using 5.13 on a macbook. running reason and ableton with DP all at the same time. it's as smooth as a baby's bottom. just wish i had a bigger screen so i'm constantly not F9n' it

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:24 pm

quincyg wrote:wondering if people on mac pros running tiger are having problems or if the problems are leopard related. i am picking up a mac pro this week, but am going to order it with tiger.

There may be issues unique to each OS where they exist. The biggest issue, I think, is whether or not drivers and plugins are written well for Leopard, if they are even available.

For those issues that occur in both Tiger and Leopard (such as crashes during Chunk importing, in my case), it may be a wash. Staying with Tiger has less of a benefit in cases where the pros and cons are largely identical. I can't say yet that Leopard is "better". It very well may be, but I just haven't logged enough Leopard hours to make a fair assessment between it and Tiger where DP performance is concerned.

I will say that I've never had a single crash in Leopard with DP5.13, and there have been no appreciable OS issues with DP and Tiger in quite a few months. All of my software is up to date with the exception of the latest QuickTime version which was just released yesterday.

maxpatch · Post by **maxpatch** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:26 pm

DP 5.12 on a MacBook Pro (2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM). No problems at all!