osx mavericks

[paulmac]

Doesn't this make you feel kinda pissed off you paid for mountain lion not so long ago? Haha..I do...

[paulmac]

all updated with no probs, does seem a little nippier than it was ? maybe its all in the mind haha...will see how it goes on the weekend when i get on my decks.....

[deevey]

I just set mine not to sleep when its connected to the power supply. If i want it to sleep I close the lid.

No issues with traktor here, used it all weekend in da club. Cant comment on any other software as traktor is all i use on this machine.

It'll still sleep if you hit the power button on Mavericks

[deevey]

Heres something interesting Mavericks seems to improve the "live" Power Balance on a MacBooks' USB ports

On Mountain Lion if I plugged in my sound card straight after restarting - no problems all 8 channels would operate as the first port was getting over 1amp. lots of juice.

If I plugged in my USB hub first and then the sound card I'd "probably" drop down to only 2 channels on the sound card as the Hub would be the highest drawing device and the sound card is designed to drop to 2ch mode when there is not enough power - PITA.

Now even if I plug my Soundcard into the Hub, and have an external drive on the spare port drawing a full 500ma I get 8 channels all the time no matter which is plugged in first /last or weather the computer is restarted or not.

So guessing there is some sort of dynamic power balancing going on in Mavericks

[Jane]

I'm a pretty reluctant upgrader from Snow Leopard for my trusty 2009 iMac. I finally succumbed (and sadly lost itunes 10 - hate the new version) as I wanted to get Maschine 2.0 (see my other post).

Have to say, I didn't activate all the stuff that I was really put off by (the gps tracking, the icloud and messaging) and am kinda happy to say, it's not all that different to Snow Leopard.

Apart from me cringing about the dreadful name of Mavericks, and the loss of itunes 10, so far it's not been that bad. It seems slower, and so far the only things that's very broke is my Reason 5 (thankfully cubase artist 6 stills seems ok). I haven't had time to try re-installing Reason, but hopefully that'll be ok (don't fancy having to pay for the upgrade as I don't use it that much).

But on the whole, it's not too painful.

I just finished downloading the update of Traktor Pro2 (had stopped upgrading when it went to minimum Lion OSX a few versions back), so yet to see what's new in there.

But..... I dunno, hopefully this gives a bit more life to my trusty iMac for a while. Am even almsot thinking of upgrading my 4s to iOS 7 after all this.

Was loving partying like it was still 2009 but.... maybe 2013 is not too bad a place to be.

[notshy]

I use the app called caffeine when I use traktor, stops the macbook going to sleep, no one else use that?

I used to use Caffeine - now I use "Wimoweh" - free from the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/wimo...10341008?mt=12

You can set it so that it never sleeps when certain apps are running - eg Traktor, so no need to ever manually activate it again for those key apps. Also it can be activated as on/off or on a timer.

I'd check it out!

P.S. I'm not so keen to upgrade my MBP quite yet. I just don't get why NI doesn't get an Apple Developer account for OSX and iOS to test the beta versions of the software.

[deevey]

I used to use Caffeine - now I use "Wimoweh" - free from the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/wimo...10341008?mt=12

Unfortunatly it still allows sleep if the power button is hit accidentally