T2/Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.1)/Slayer crashes very time

[joschafer]

Hi. I am runnning Mac OS X (10.4.1) on a dual G5 2 GHz. I have 2 disks and I boot Tiger from the second one. I have T1 installed on the first. I have installed T2 on the second disk (where the OS was booted from) and every time I open slayer it will crash. On rare occassions, I will get a white box but eventually it will crash. I tried to install the latest T2 from my registered area but that did not help. Here are my questions.

- Is this a known issue?
- Is there a planned fix?
- When is it targeted to be released?
- I could try to completely remove all remnants of T1 and T2 but I have yet to find authoritative procedures to do this. Can you point me at what I need to remove everything?
- This was an upgrade but I could wipe the disk and do a clean install if that is a known fix but I prefer not too since I have other software installed.

I'm pretty frustrasted with this since all of the rest of my software is working OK.

Thanks -- Jeff

[larsfarm]

- Is this a known issue?
- Is there a planned fix?
- When is it targeted to be released?

I don't know about this particular issue, but there are known problems with current OSX (T can't read WAV-files). Mackie has acknowledged these other problems. If they cared at all the OSX fix would have been out weeks ago.

Can you point me at what I need to remove everything?

I think T is quite self contained on OSX. Drop the application bundle (Tracktion.app) and clean out the VST-plugs from
~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/
Then there's a log and some preferences and cached files...
~/Library/Logs/TracktionLog.txt
~/Library/Preferences/tracktion.plist
~/Library/Preferences/TracktionSettings
~/Library/Caches/Tracktion/
Tracktion has a whole directory with unpacked examples ~/Library/Tracktion/

Most if not all of these are recreated when needed so drop them.

I'm pretty frustrasted with this since all of the rest of my software is working OK.

Same here. This has made me look at Soundtrack Pro... Apple released the .1 quick fix for the entire OS long ago. Even the notoriously late Protools has been declared OSX 10.4 ready... Not Tracktion.

L

[Spitfire31]

This has made me look at Soundtrack Pro...

Except that STP -

Does not record on more than two channels at the same time
Does not support MIDI except as a sync source
Does not support AU instruments (since no MIDI except sync)
Does not support 5.1 or any other surround format

And incidentally, its much vaunted noise reduction features don't hold a candle to Waves Restoration X bundle. But that wasn't to be expected...

If you only do loop based music and don't need MIDI, and only need to record to 2 channels at a time, STP is a lot of bang for the buck, no doubt about it.

//Joey

[larsfarm]

This has made me look at Soundtrack Pro...

If you only do loop based music and don't need MIDI, and only need to record to 2 channels at a time, STP is a lot of bang for the buck, no doubt about it.

I use Tracktion for audio, not midi. I record multiple simultaneous tracks of audio with a Mackie SDR recorder. Noise is not a problem. I then use Tracktion as a mixer to process the resulting WAV-files. I don't do midi. I don't use Tracktion as a recorder. Tracktion would do most of what I want, but only if it could do what was announced as a major selling point six months ago - import Mackies own SDR projects and then be able to actually read the audio. This is still missing on OSX...

[DHR53]

This has made me look at Soundtrack Pro...

Except that STP -

Does not record on more than two channels at the same time
Does not support MIDI except as a sync source
Does not support AU instruments (since no MIDI except sync)
Does not support 5.1 or any other surround format

And incidentally, its much vaunted noise reduction features don't hold a candle to Waves Restoration X bundle. But that wasn't to be expected...

If you only do loop based music and don't need MIDI, and only need to record to 2 channels at a time, STP is a lot of bang for the buck, no doubt about it.

//Joey

Waves Restoration bundle doesn't cost $299. either...

[Spitfire31]

I use Tracktion for audio, not midi. I record multiple simultaneous tracks of audio with a Mackie SDR recorder. Noise is not a problem. I then use Tracktion as a mixer to process the resulting WAV-files. I don't do midi. I don't use Tracktion as a recorder.

With that workflow, you'd probably be well served by Soundtrack Pro. And some of those 50 Logic plug-ins are rather nice...

//Joey

[larsfarm]

With that workflow, you'd probably be well served by Soundtrack Pro. And some of those 50 Logic plug-ins are rather nice...

My point is that I wouldn't even have given STP a thought if T had been fixed in reasonable time. It's Mackies slow reaction that forces me look for alternatives.