Which version of Mac OS are you using for music work?

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Which version of Mac OS are you running?

Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), because i wanted it. To hell with the risks! To HELL I SAY!!
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Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), because i wanted it. It aint so bad as all that.
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Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), because I was forced to upgrade [by??].
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Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), because i want it, and I'm actually pretty content with it.
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Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), because I was forced to upgrade.
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Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), because i wanted it (or: because I can't upgrade newer without my M-Audio [or similar] drivers failing to work!).
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Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), because I was forced to upgrade.
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Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), because i wanted it. I am a regretful and sad puppy.
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Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), because I was forced to upgrade by Native Instruments [or other such scenario].
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Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), because I prefer it. It may not have all that new fancy iOS integration stuff, but it kicks serious ass!
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Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), because my machine is too old to upgrade.
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Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), because I have PPC software or abandoned hardware that requires it.
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Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), because I prefer it for some irrational reason. Get off my lawn!
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Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), because I am running a Mac G5 Tower [or other such PPC scenario; i.e.: because the machine is too old to upgrade.]
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Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), because I have software/hardware that requires it which was abandoned by its makers.
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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), because I need to run Classic environment in OS X. ["Carbonated or Bust!!"]
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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), because my machine is too old to upgrade, yet I still can get use from it.
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Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or earlier version of OSX... because I'm outright self-abusive.
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Mac OS 9.x (Sonata, Minuet, Fortissimo, Moonlight, Limelight), but it's not my main system; it's just for stuff like Rebirth and Turbo Synth.
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Mac OS 9.x (Sonata, Minuet, Fortissimo, Moonlight, Limelight), and it's my main system, because OS X is for sellouts, I refuse to give up on Classic (and/or I'm self-abusive).
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Mac OS 8.x (Tempo, Bride of Buster, Allegro, The Ric Ford Release, Veronica), because I require use of abandoned software that requires it.
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Mac OS 8.x (Tempo, Bride of Buster, Allegro, The Ric Ford Release, Veronica), because OS 9 wont run on my archaic Mac that I still use for some reason.
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Mac OS 8.x (Tempo, Bride of Buster, Allegro, The Ric Ford Release, Veronica), and it's my main OS because I'm a new-wave inverse retro hippie cat [strokes beard/side burns and/or flicks tail].
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System 7.x (Big Bang), because I never cared for any of that Copland crap anyway [sniffs butt of cat from option above].
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System 7.x (Big Bang), because Steve Jobs was a bastard and killed the Mac Clones by renaming the operating system to get out of their licensing contracts with clone makers, and I'm proudly using a Umax SuperMac for music/desktop work/retro publishing (or retro computer porn).
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System 6.x (Big Deal), because [i honestly can't think of even a joke reason for this].
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System 6.x (GS/OS v4.02), because I'm not running a Mac; I'm running an Apple IIgs as my music system. No seriously. You haven't lived the life of computer music until you've scored an independent film via Music Studio 2.0! In fact, I'm so retro cool that I'm running an emulated Apple IIgs... within Sweet 16 on BeOS... because I refuse to give up on multiple awesome computer products that failed due to evil marketing and self-sabotage! Underdogs unite!! [where did everyone go??]
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None of the above; I'm a Windows/Linux user who came here to troll your stupid Mac thread (OMFG, WTF is wrong with you). [or: Fish]
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Because even my polls are long-winded... :oops: :hihi:

So, i got this message on my Snow Leopard screen a few minutes ago:
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Since almost every new version of every OS (aside from Snow Leopard on Mac and maybe Windows 7 on PC, which i skipped), has been slower and more bloated than its predecessor, i found this "improve the performance of your Mac" statement to be patently (and offensively, as a tech person) ludicrous!

10.7 was a "hey, iPhone exists!" feature pig (with those features largely unfinished). 10.8 fixed some of 10.7, but wasn't a major improvement. 10.9 Mavericks is slow to boot, overall sluggish in operation, and slow to shut down, and Logic 9.x is ...lesser... on it, but Mavericks is actually quite good (except for the slowness).

i use Mavericks for non-music activities (and sometimes for music). i decided my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro 5,5 should not go further than that. i totally ignored 10.10 (Yosemite); all reports justified my choice. When Apple declared that 10.11 "El Capitan" was focused on performance and stability, my interest was piqued. But it sounds like they failed to deliver. It's buggy, and has introduced changes that (while good in the long term) cause problems with current versions of content creation tools. Developers of said tools are actively advising against upgrading for now.

i'm slowly being pushed to upgrade my music boot volume by all the products that no longer support 10.6. If i buy a new Mac i wont have a choice; it'll be the newest version as of the purchase date. My older machines are acting as maintainers of legacy (Akai AkSys, among other things). So i was wondering, Mac users: which version are you using, and how do you feel about it in terms of performance?

Notice to would-be Windows/Linux trolls: yes, we know [whatever comment you're going to make to turn this thread into a Mac vs PC argument]. We could shoot back plenty of comments about why we don't use your OS, and Windows is not exactly free from coerced upgrades (especially these days; i have a Windows 10 upgrade process repeatedly requiring termination on my Windows 8.1 machine). (i know that's a bit trollish, but how can i NOT say it??)

And for no reason at all, a photo of a white cat on a Tandy 1000 computer:

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Love the photo! Late 80s/early 90s my studio revolved around a Tandy 1000 running Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold synced to a Fostex 8-track (SMPTE on track 8 -- remember "virtual tracks?".

But I voted for El Capitan. Waited until 10.11.1 when the AU mess seemed to be mostly sorted out, and things seem fine in Logic land. Just waiting for a couple utilities (like Default Folder) to work out incompatibilities.
Mac Studio Max | 32GB | 12.6 | MOTU 828es | MOTU M4 | Studio One 6 | Logic 10.7
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tremolounge wrote:Love the photo! Late 80s/early 90s my studio revolved around a Tandy 1000 running Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold synced to a Fostex 8-track (SMPTE on track 8 -- remember "virtual tracks?".
The photo is from Wikipedia. i wish i was the photographer, hah hah :-D

i had a MIDI Quest MPU-401 clone ISA card in a Tandy 1000 TL/2, connected to ... a Casio MT-540 :oops: i think i had some Voyetra sequencer at some point. Then Cakewalk Apprentice. That's where it all began for me.
tremolounge wrote:But I voted for El Capitan. Waited until 10.11.1 when the AU mess seemed to be mostly sorted out, and things seem fine in Logic land. Just waiting for a couple utilities (like Default Folder) to work out incompatibilities.
What machine are you running it on?
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my music @ SoundCloud
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Jace-BeOS wrote: What machine are you running it on?
Mid-2010 Mac Pro 6 x 3.33, 16GB RAM.
Mac Studio Max | 32GB | 12.6 | MOTU 828es | MOTU M4 | Studio One 6 | Logic 10.7
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I imagine that system doesn't have any trouble with it then. Mine... eh...
- dysamoria.com
my music @ SoundCloud
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I wasn't 'forced to upgrade' to OSX.8 because of a new computer with it installed, but around a year ago I gave up because of NI Kontakt and Reaktor updates. I'd stayed with Snow Leopard up to that point and expected rather to never move. Up to a point there was a way to make these two instruments work even as their installer was made not to work, but that changed. SL by far more efficient for everything.
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Both my computers are early 2009. I'm on 10.8.5, skipped 10.7, have zero interest in movin' on up. 10.11 would break most of what I use. I'm living largely in 2011 with music software.
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Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien
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I don't think new OS versions are about being better/perfect as much as they are about selling new product.
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Only two votes allowed? I'm running Snow Leopard on my oldest machine, and other machines with Mavericks, Yosemite and (as of yesterday) El Capitan. Admittedly I'm not doing serious music production on all of those machines, a couple of them are for testing. And if we are talking about testing, I have a Lion virtual machine that I spin up occasionally and a Mountain Lion installation on a USB drive for occasional booting.

TBH, I actually quite like Mavericks. Haven't been in a rush to update my main working machines to the newer OS versions because of the potential for breakage.
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