Amazing Stillwell support

[Kubi]

To be honest, 10.4 is two generations back. At some point it's got to be gone. I vote for moving forward, Scott.

[SixStringGeek]

Yeah, I've been holding off on 64-bit support for that very reason...I guess I either need to make two sets of builds (which doesn't thrill me), or give up 10.4 support.

I'm in the same boat with Jambalaya (my live host). I still have users on 10.4 so I'm going to hang with that a bit longer.

[grouse]

I've had two reports that they can't get the GUIs to display, although they continue to pass sound and accept preset changes, doing what they're supposed to from an audio standard...

I have NOT been able to reproduce the problem. I've got an Intel Mac on 10.6.2, and a PPC Mac on 10.4.11, and neither one of them shows the problem described. If I can't see it break, it's a REAL bear to fix, because I'm just whistling in the dark trying to find what's broken. I'm not getting any other reports, so I have to assume that others are using them just fine in 7.02.

For what it's worth, they function just fine here, with the previously-noted exception of keyboard transport control when the plugin's GUI has the focus.

Puzzled,

Scott

PS: Over the pneumonia, yay. Thank goodness for magnum-caliber antibiotics and decongestants. Oh...and soup.

I too have the disappearing GUI for the Rocket compressor in 7.02, just to increase your list of users by 50%!
Has there been a solution to this that I may have missed?
Thanks.

[David Polich]

I just installed the Rocket Compressor on my Intel Macbook running OSX
10.6.8. Launched DP 7.1, called up the Rocket on audio and stereo track inserts - no problems. GUI appears, controls work, everything a-ok...and,
clicking inside the Rocket's GUI window is not killing DP's transport
controls.

[Kubi]

Must be the awesome new OS 10.6.8.

[David Polich]

Must be the awesome new OS 10.6.8.

Sorry, I meant 10.5.8. Duh....my bad.

[Kubi]

[David Polich]

Well, sad to say, I got around to installing 7.1 on my G5 running OSX 10.4.11. The Rocket Compressor's GUI is a no-show.

Bummed....

[labman]

Well, sad to say, I got around to installing 7.1 on my G5 running OSX 10.4.11. The Rocket Compressor's GUI is a no-show.

Bummed....

Afraid to say, this surely seems to be a 10.4.11 issue. Makes our plugs dead in water here. Any thoughts Scott?

[sstillwell]

None, sorry to say. I cannot reproduce the problem. I'm running 10.4.11 on a G4 with 7.1 and no issues at all (other than being sloooooow). Dunno if it's a G5 thing, but I don't have the budget to go buy a G5 to test right now. Does anyone out there still have a G4 that they can test against to see if it mysteriously works? That would help narrow the field down.

Scott

PS: Remember to report problems on my website, guys...it's cool to discuss here, but I'm not always here. You'll get attention faster if you bring the problem to me instead of waiting for me to come to the problem. Just sayin'...

[labman]

None, sorry to say. I cannot reproduce the problem. I'm running 10.4.11 on a G4 with 7.1 and no issues at all (other than being sloooooow). Dunno if it's a G5 thing, but I don't have the budget to go buy a G5 to test right now. Does anyone out there still have a G4 that they can test against to see if it mysteriously works? That would help narrow the field down.

We are 10.4.11 on MacPros here. The leopard machines work fine.

[Shooshie]

10.4.11... that's Tiger, isn't it? Oh! For most of this thread I was thinking it was one of those earlier cats, like Panther or something. Then you're not that far out of the loop. I commend any developer who still supports Tiger, because I believe a lot of people are going to be using it for a while, kind of like Windows NT when MS made Vista. That's not saying that Leopard is our Vista; just that a lot of people have -- for reasons of their own -- chosen not to go Leopard. I am not among them; I jumped on Leopard and Snow Leopard and I would never go back. Well, I do go back when I open my G4 Titanium Powerbook, which still serves my purposes fine, but that's beside the point. I like Leopard, but I think we should be supporting Tiger at least for another year or two.

Shooshie

[Kubi]

Props to Scott for trying to get the plugs to work when hosted inside a current version DAW running on an OS that's two generations obsolete while inside a current model Mac. Wouldn't it make more sense to upgrade your Intel macs to 10.5 or 10.6? Scott may be on a wild goose chase that benefits only very few customers - don't think too many people run Tiger on MacPros while running DP7.1.

[James Steele]

Wouldn't it make more sense to upgrade your Intel macs to 10.5 or 10.6?

But of course. Your point is?

[Shooshie]

Props to Scott for trying to get the plugs to work when hosted inside a current version DAW running on an OS that's two generations obsolete while inside a current model Mac. Wouldn't it make more sense to upgrade your Intel macs to 10.5 or 10.6? Scott may be on a wild goose chase that benefits only very few customers - don't think too many people run Tiger on MacPros while running DP7.1.

Probably not many running Tiger on a Mac Pro, but lots are running it on G4's and G5's, still. And while I personally recommend anyone to upgrade to Intel, Snow Leopard, or both, I'm well aware that many haven't done so and don't plan to anytime soon.

I recently upgraded the old iMac my daughter used her first year at Yale, which is a G5, to Snow Leopard. The performance is like jackrabbit faster compared to a turtle. Fantastic! My wife uses it, and she'd been complaining about sluggish videos on YouTube, slow email, slow response within applications, and all sorts of little things; she basically couldn't multi-task without something getting a beachball. Now it runs almost like my MacPro for the kinds of things that she does. Then again, she's not running DP over there.

Shooshie