Updating Mac OS to X Lion

[fullenglishpint]

@FEP, Ableton is having issues too, they are working on an update since Dev Beta 3

Yeh, I saw something about a problem with outgoing midi messages. How easy is it to downgrade back to SL if there's a real fuck up? I'm DLing Lion right now. Early adopter, what can I say.

[towifer]

I'm really feeling that I should update to keep me apple happy, but I know it'll effect my DAW (pro tools), when ableton can run with Lion i'll put it on my MBP I guess!

[amidoinitrite]

anyone else having issues trying to register for the free "up-to-date" upgrade?

I called over 2 hours ago and they said it should be working by 5, if not call back :/

[mostapha]

Not entirely accurate. Downloading the installer doesn't require a restart but the computer does restart during the installation process. It has to create a recovery partition on the primary HDD which requires unmounting the drive, and you can't be booted to the OS while that happens. :P

Having resized and created partitions on many a mounted drive under OS X, I'm fairly confident that's not the reason you have to reboot. You do have to reboot to replace a kernel with a new version, so I'd expect that to be the core reason why you have to restart…though there are other reasons as well…not the lest of which is the complexity of replacing running processes with new versions without breaking anything.

How easy is it to downgrade back to SL if there's a real fuck up? I'm DLing Lion right now. Early adopter, what can I say.

Easy as reinstalling Snow Leopard. Assuming, of course, that you have a copy of the install disk that you can use and have a working backup.

If you have a drive image, then it's just a matter of restoring it.

I'm really feeling that I should update to keep me apple happy, but I know it'll effect my DAW (pro tools), when ableton can run with Lion i'll put it on my MBP I guess!

Umm…you're considering upgrading OS X and you run pro tools? WTF? Just a friendly warning…the last time I did that, it was 6 months before Pro Tools would start again thanks to a combination of incompatibility and licensing issues. The HD3 system I use at school is still running Leopard and PT 8 for just that reason.

DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR OS IF YOU RUN PRO TOOLS UNTIL AVID TELLS YOU TO DO IT!

If you're going to try that, please for the love of god have a disk image backup.

Also, if anyone's interested:*http://roaringapps.com/

According to them, Traktor Pro 2.0.1 works fine.
Logic 9 has some issues.
Logic 8 doesn't work at all.
Maschine isn't on the list.
Aleton Live 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 are supposed to work.
Pro Tools does not work at all.
Scratch Live has issues.
Itch isn't listed at all.
And apparently they might have screwed with Core Audio some.

Oh, and Quicksilver beta 60 is supposed to work…if anyone cares.

Does anyone understand NI's licensing well enough to know whether or not I can install an external and run Maschine off my internal drive without going to jail for supposedly pirating software that I own?

[Mylestec]

Hi There,

I live in the Netherlands and in July is comming the new Mac OS X Lion.
Is there allready someone who runs on this OS and uses the S4 and it's software?

I want to know if there are problems or not, so i can decide to purache the new OS when it's out.

Thanx...

Eh... if you play live gigs with the system you're thinking of upgrading, then follow rule # 1

Rule # 1: If shit aint broken, don't fix it.

[padi_04]

Btw, the bug that made tracktor goe black if you launched expose while it was in fullscreen is gone

[paulmac]

so should i upgrade to lion then or not? i only use traktor

[Belmont!]

Having resized and created partitions on many a mounted drive under OS X, I'm fairly confident that's not the reason you have to reboot. You do have to reboot to replace a kernel with a new version, so I'd expect that to be the core reason why you have to restart…though there are other reasons as well…not the lest of which is the complexity of replacing running processes with new versions without breaking anything.

Ah, I see what you're saying. I guess my assumption was that in the case of installing Lion, the installing creates a recovery partition, which as far as the OS is concerned isn't the same as splitting off a chunk of free space into a separate partition, so that might require unmounting the drive, rebooting the system, etc.

I could be wrong though! And if someone can correct me on the exact process that the Lion installer takes to perform these tasks, I will happily admit so.

[V-Hoff]

Also there are a new article on scratchworx about that:

"Lion - it roared too loud"
http://www.skratchworx.com/newspage....nts&fn_id=1754

[towifer]

I'm not planning on upgrading my iMac (my pro tools rig) till Avid have ok'd the situation!

But I imagine ableton will sort out there DAW first as will NI with traktor then i can upgrade my MBP to Lion.

Don't worry, i've had OS X issues in the past also!