Any reason not to downgrade to Leopard?

[AdamWathan]

Snow Leopard compatibility issues are really driving me nuts, is there anything great about it compared to Leopard that makes it worth keeping?

I am sick of getting a CPU error in Pro Tools every 5 seconds because of some incompatible plugin, or just for fun, when I don't even have any plugins running.

 

[Zack Uidl]

It is strange that you mention the issues because I have SL on every computer of mine without problems. (Pro Tools and Cubase)

I think you would be fine with Leopard though I am not really sure what the differences are. I went from using Tiger to Snow Leopard and have never used Leopard

 

[avrinder]

I have Leopard, and while I THOUGHT the Pro Tools Error (-9073) was over with (I've done 2 full sessions, no problems) - last night 5 tracks kept giving me the 9073 error (no plug-ins). So I'm not sure anymore haha

 

[Wolfeman]

I must be lucky, I have never had a problem with Snow Leopard so far. I also don't use pro tools though.

 

[arv_foh]

I jumped right when the upgrade came out and upgraded my MBP and Mac Pro to SL. They're both back on Leopard now, due mostly to plugin and interface compatibility issues. (SL doesn't like my Mbox, or a lot of my Logic plugs) The only thing that I noticed that was cool about SL was that Safari was faster and that when you try to eject a disk that is in use (like an external hard drive or something) it actually told you what app was using it instead of just saying "disk is in use"

 

[jval]

Hey Adam have you tried repairing permissions on your HD and trashing the Digi Databases folder since these problems started?? Might be worth a shot before going back to leopard..

 

[Airborne]

It is strange that you mention the issues because I have SL on every computer of mine without problems.

+1

No issues with my computers so far.

 

[JeffTD]

Guitar Pro crashes all the time for me, but that's my only issue.

 

[Ola Englund]

Same thing here, no issues, all my plugins work. I use Logic though...

 

[gabriel g.]

If the things Jval said dont work, make a fresh install (with deleting all the files on your HD first)

->Put Snow leopard in the DVD-drive
->turn down the mac
->Start the mac and press "c"
->go under HD-helper (dont know the right english terms for that)
->install snow leopard

I did it that way and my digi 003 rack works perfectly with the coreaudio driver, as logic 9, and all my waves plugins, drumagog and podfarm...

cheers

 

[plague_rider]

If your machine came with SL, theres a chance you'll experiance more issues downgrading it...

 

[Nitsuj]

Guitar Pro crashes all the time for me, but that's my only issue.

It won't crash in SL if you have the 5.3.2 update. Just make sure that it doesn't open in Rosetta mode.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I went back to leopard at the end of November for a few reasons:

1. Line 6 sucks fucking balls and only has a beta driver, in fact they STILL only have a beta driver and SL has been out for 5 months now. They officially suck worse than digidesign for getting their shit together to support new stuff.

2. When I went to restore my machine under time machine, applications got REALLY fucked up (wouldn't launch etc...) when I tried to go back. From a restore/ lose you setup point of view, that was to scary for me. Did the system restore under leopard and there was no problems.

3. Pro Tools wasn't supported at the time.

 

[updog]

Line 6 sucks fucking balls

quoted for truth

I'm on Leopard, but been toying with the thought of upgrading. I suppose Logic SHOULD work with SL? On the other hand, I don't really have THAT much need for the upgrade.

 

[gabriel g.]

Podfarm works perfect on my mbp with logic 9 and snow leopard.

 

[updog]

Podfarm works perfect on my mbp with logic 9 and snow leopard.

same here


not that it gets much use

 

[Kazrog]

Still running Leopard here on my production box. And I'm a Cubase guy, and Cubase works just fine in Snow Leopard on my laptop. Upgrading the OS on a studio machine rarely serves any purpose, I habitually avoid it until it's absolutely necessary.

The 64 bit transition is a bit messy for both the Apple and Microsoft OS platforms, I'd rather wait until it's been totally sorted out.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

same here


not that it gets much use

Oh it works, but when I go to record with the UX2, no matter how I have the driver latency settings or the recording program latency settings I still get clicks and pops.

Leading me to believe that line 6 sucks fucking balls.

 

[avrinder]

pro tools leopard guys - Do you guys randomly get 9073 errors now and then? I didn't for 2 sessions, and now it's back again (even after defragging my fw hd)