KVR Audio

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:45 am

heya 8D,
I have a problem running MOTU mx4

I have purchased the box, which is v2 of the soft

I have an old Mac to run it on,
but the OSX is too new it seems-
what can I do?

I have Snow Leopard install disc- which might work.

I was thinking that maybe I could virtualize Snow Leopard somehow
I have a win10 system, and yeah the old Mac

Can anyone offer virtualiztion suggestions
-- for example what is Boot Camp?
can I use that?

I would like to get this MX4 working,
what do u suggest?

Cheer!

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:42 am

Hmmm... perhaps you can install (and run) Mountain Lion on an external disk.
Dual boot seems possible as well:
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/dual- ... c-3659676/

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 7:05 am

oh ty Bert!
I am trying VirtualBox
- it's being difficult, asking command line stuff and taking ages to react to any command

I looked at VMWare Fusion, but my OSX is too old

I'll follow the link you gave thanks again
... and get back here with how it's going

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 1:07 am

at a certain transitional stage, where I wanted one or two things which required Mountain Lion I ran a double-boot system, basically hanging onto Snow Leopard as long as possible, but there were Kontakt libaries which required a version SL didn't support. No problem, I honestly had no issues in doing.
This was on two internal drives, but that will be slower than a decent external drive today, was before SSD at all.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:27 am

nix808 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 7:05 am I looked at VMWare Fusion, but my OSX is too old

What's too old? The hosting OS (your current computer) or the one you're virtualising?

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:04 pm

VMWare Fusion doesn't run on El Capitan,
which is what the iMac had as OS,
I have successfully rolled back to Snow Leopard, no virtualization

--it was a dice though, I nearly bricked it trying to use Virtual Box

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:17 pm

The big questions:

1. Does it all work?
2. Was it worth the trouble?

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:00 pm

well
- it's sort of a silly thing to do

I have Digital Performer, which works on the newer OS, El Capitan
... so I can run MX 4 in that

- but I have another reason for doing this, in that a rare Keith Mcmillen product,
Stringport, also works in SL, and can be my sound card

I got MX4 installed and the iLok seems to be working too
I haven't got any sound out of it with MetaPlug in MAXmsp 5,
but I'll try Kore now

I thought it had a standalone, as AudioChocolate here in Oz says so on it's product page

-trying to run an au somehow atm

It is certainly worth it, as I think it's the proverbial, the MX4
I wouldn't like to pay the full price and have these dramas though

--thanks Jan! It would be a bit of a feat for me to set up dual boot,
but the possibility is noted
cheers too for Kore, maybe it'll help for this

edit:- yesss -Kore works, just need to try and auth it somehow, dunno what this old build needs for Service Centre or whatever it's called now