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I have moved over to an M1 pro macbook pro with OS 13.6.2. I am running PT 2019.12.0.

It is crashing with a lot of 3rd party plug ins. It is informing me that “this version of PT relies on Quicktime components that are not available with this OS”.

Cold this be the reason? What should I do?

Thank you

Michael.
 
Hi,
There's a compatibility chart you can refer to here.

Long story short your PT version is only compatible with 10.13 / 10.14 / 10.15
and your operating system version is only compatible with Protools versions 2022.12 and later

The oldest operating system your mac can run, as far as I know, is Big Sur 11.6, so that's no help.

The only solution, really, is to upgrade your Protools version so you're on at least 2022.12
 
thank you for your quick reply. I have upgraded my perpetual license. It will at least give me a year's state of the art in PT Studio...cheers
 
My pleasure. I'm in the same boat.
With any luck we should be able to cling on to the versions afforded by that coverage for quite some time.
Monterey (which I'm on) and Ventura are both good stable systems.

Unless, for some reason, you really need the latest and greatest from Apple's updates, you should be able to find a stable combo of OS version and PT version
and just leave well alone for years to come.

Best of luck!
 
Hi Steenamaroo, youve been so helpful, maybe you can assist further. I have just downloaded and installed the latest version of PT Studio and immediately booted up a session i had been working on (in PT 2019.12) and it dropped a lot of tracks because the track count was exceeded. Please see attached. What is going on here.
 

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Solved. for some reason it booted up Pro tools Intro. I looked into the Avid link and it offered "activate your highest tier". Weird, but all fine now...well, for the moment.
cheers
 
Ha, That's just what I was typing.

PT Intro is good for 8+8 (audio and midi)
Artist does 32 and 64
and Studio does 512 audio and doesn't mention midi in the summary. Presumably over a thousand or unlimited.
 
Steenamaroo said:
Ha, That's just what I was typing.

PT Intro is good for 8+8 (audio and midi)
Artist does 32 and 64
and Studio does 512 audio and doesn't mention midi in the summary. Presumably over a thousand or unlimited.
Click to expand...
What I find interesting is most albums could be made easily with 8 tracks and older guys like me and if you had a 16 track you were either running a commercial studio or was someone who already made it.

Artist is well more than most will need and for $200 I can see it being worth it.
 
Not really, because while 8 audio tracks is workable, so much stuff nowadays uses track per instrument, or, maybe track per ‘bit’ of an instrument. Im not a proper pianist, so all my parts are left hand and right hand, so i can repair it easier. In my old recording days with limited tracks, i could never do that sort of thing.
 
Your virtual instruments are in a different count, Rob.
PT seem to break it up as X audio tracks and Y midi/instrument tracks.
If you piano is acoustic recording I guess you'd have used up two tracks and then bounced them back to one in the old days.
Limitations breed creativity. ;)

Have to agree, though. PT Artist looks like more than enough for the average home recordist.
 
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