![]() ![]() Since I don't have the vast amounts of money Avid charges at the moment for an update to ver 12 PT I'll leave PT there and use it when I need it, including bugs.ĥ. I did this with everything except Pro Tools, and it all works well with the updates. Update all your Drivers, DAW software and plugin software. If you have Sampler drives which your DAW streams from, definitely shut off Spotlight on those drives so OSX doesn't keep searching them.Ĥ. I'm not sure if this is some sort of bug with Sierra or not, but Spotlight is a huge nuisance. Once I turned off Spotlight all was well, the external drives would eject properly. The symptom is that you can't eject the drive, and it gets really hot. Sierra managed to burn out one of my backup drives by continually using it. Turn off Spotlight on external drives, especially mechanical drives. ![]() Boot times are easily as good as Mavericks and maybe even a little faster. If you install on a mechanical drive I'm not sure if you'll get better performance than Mavericks. Sierra likes SSDs and gives excellent performance with them. Logic Pro X is extremely stable with no crashes since installation.Ģ. In terms of speed, I'd say my computer is now faster by a small margin (Probably because of the clean install), especially with disk operations and streaming from SSDs. In terms of stability Sierra is equal to Mavericks with the exception of Pro Tools. Older versions did not work for some manufacturers, especially the East West Play Engine, which was downright flakey until I upgraded, now it works faultlessly in Sierra with all my sampler libraries. I included the list of plugin manufactturers I use because the VST, AAX and AU versions all work faultlessly in Sierra, if you upgrade to the latest versions. The plugins I use include Fabfilter, Soundtoys, Waves, Softube, Slate, Soundtheory, Zynaptic, Soundradix, Izotope, Native Instruments, Lexicon, Eventide, East West, Spectrasonics, UHE, Celemony, flux, Kush, Scuffham amps, Sonnox, Synapse Audio, Sonarworks, Tokyo Dawn Labs, Plugin Alliance (Brainworx, etc), Toontracks, Output and Sugarbytes. All the updated plugins work faultlessly including Waves plugins which need Authorisation using an app which comes with the waves installation. As for Logic Pro X it works faultlessly with the latest update which unlike the exorbitant prices Avid charge was free. So eventually I'll need to upgrade to ver 12 but it actually works reasonably well with all the updated plugins and doesn't glitch out or stop suddenly, so it's still usable. Menus and buttons sometimes get screwed up (but restarting the app cures that) and some of the old instruments which come with Pro Tools don't work properly. Pro Tools 11 doesn't work so well in Sierra, as it can't import audio via the File menu, you have to drag and drop. Well it was a long road to get everything working again and most plugins and DAWs needed updating to versions which were stable in Sierra. I upgraded to Sierra, with a totally clean install, and reinstalled all my DAW software and Plugins from scratch. ![]() I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade. I wanted to also use Logic Remote and again Mavericks did not run the version of Logic which could use Logic Remote. Version 2 mice don't work in Mavericks, plus I was using Logic Pro X and Pro Tools 11.3.2. I realize you probably don't have the luxury of downgrading, installing and authorizing before moving on to Sierra, and you may not actually even have the problems I did, but it is something you should be aware of.Ĭlick to expand.I was on Mavericks OSX and a late 2013 MB Pro and it was very stable, except that I needed a new magic mouse. I didn't have any real problems after that. So many plugs and VIs were out of whack, I wound up wiping my drive and starting over from Lion, making sure incompatible software and plugs were removed and that everything else was authorized properly before installing. The first time I upgraded my OS, it was from Lion to El Capitan, I hadn't bothered to authorize everything first, figuring I'd do it in El Cap. HOWEVER, you upgrading from Mountain Lion may be a concern for authorizing your older software/plugs. ![]() I didn't see a lot of other compatibility issues. I upgraded to Sierra recently, and because TechTools Pro 9 and Quicken weren't quite ready yet, I wound up downgrading back to El Cap for the moment (I'll probably be taking the Sierra plunge again next week!). I'm on the latest version of El Capitan, which got pretty stable there by 10.11.6. ![]()
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