Snow Leopard
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Snow Leopard
Hello; I'm upgrading to DP-7 from 5.13. I'm in Tiger now and everything works fine. Want to upgrade to Snow Leopard also. Should I upgrade to Snow Leopard from Tiger. If so what would be the advantages? Thank you. Mac Pro w/8GB Ram
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twistedtom
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Re: Snow Leopard
The advantage is that DP7.12 works well in SL.
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Re: Snow Leopard
I've had nothing but trouble with my external firewire drives under SnowLeopard when running (trying to run) both 800 and 400 at the same time.
I went to SL, just so I could use Kontakt 4.
Just crashes when both 800 and 400 are on-line. Gray screen of death.
I've had to rethink my recording process.
On a positive note, I've been taking a nice hard look at my sound libraries and finding what is essential to my work.... Which has been a very good thing for me to do. I had one bloated library.
So, if you go to Snow, I'd suggest backing-up your current OS to a bootable drive. Compare.
I went to SL, just so I could use Kontakt 4.
Just crashes when both 800 and 400 are on-line. Gray screen of death.
I've had to rethink my recording process.
On a positive note, I've been taking a nice hard look at my sound libraries and finding what is essential to my work.... Which has been a very good thing for me to do. I had one bloated library.
So, if you go to Snow, I'd suggest backing-up your current OS to a bootable drive. Compare.
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2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo, 10.4.11, 3gigs ram, Ultralite 2 (good Box),Bunch of FireWire Drives, guitars guitars guitars, plugins plugins , mostly use Kontakt3
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kassonica
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Re: Snow Leopard
twistedtom wrote:The advantage is that DP7.12 works well in SL.
+1
Plus you get a small performance improvement as well.
After some initial problems with the 2, I'm happy as happy can be and couldn't go back to leopard.
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SmilesLots
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Re: Snow Leopard
Not sure what problems an upgrade like that could potentially produce, but what I did was to install Rosetta along with SL to make sure that if there were any ppc programs or code, that my compute would have the resources to handle it. I've had no problems.
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