Re: El Capitan

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

Not sure what happened with El Capitan, but I must have gotten fifteen different emails from plugin providers saying Don't Upgrade to El Capitan.

Apparently Pro Tools can run on it now… but not sure about the plugins.

I think Native Instruments recently announced their stuff will run on it. 

I worried about folks who had their machines on auto update. 

If I was smart I would download all the different OS's as they come.  That way, if I needed to upgrade and El Capitan didn't work, I could resort to Yosemite. 

But I always forget!

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Ivodne Galatea <takas20@hotmail.com> wrote:

Agreed with everything everyone is saying. My core problem is that Steinberg has a locking system that doesn't want to play with El Capitan. Given what's at stake here (subase, wavelab, all their virtual synths) I can't help thinking they'll have to fix it soon. My best guess is that they were using that old standby, and undocumented OS feature, to make their system uncrackable, and the feature changed when Apple hardened OSX.

I can't help wondering too if the people who took a less regular approach to musical software acquisition had these problems

> Subject: Re: El Capitan
> From: edurbrow@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:21:50 +0900
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
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> On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:11 PM, Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > My advice, as always with OS upgrades of any kind: wait until you don't have a choice. Your setup works? Why mess with a good thing?
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> I’ve come around to that way of thinking after years of misadventures. I think computers are designed for the OS they ship with. You are good for a couple of upgrades, but after that things will likely slow down and there is the ongoing thing of programs not working with each new iteration.
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> I learned the hard way, it is very difficult to go backwards. I tried that on an SSD I bought especially for that purpose and still couldn’t do it. I had to send the SSD to my tech guru and he installed the OS (whatever was before Mavericks).
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> Ed Durbrow
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