El Capitan with Logic Pro X, Native Instruments etc

Clarky

I have a spare hard drive with a copy of my main hard drive on it..

I'm considering upgrading to El Capitan on the spare to find out what improves, what breaks etc..

obviously if it goes well I'll upgrade the main drive on my Mac

the Mac is an 8-core, early 2008, 32G RAM, 4x 1T drives [main drive is a 1T SSD] running Mountain Lion [very well]

so it's not exactly the latest / greatest machine out there

I have a ton of Native Instruments stuff

Sound Iron Choirs

Cinematic Strings 2

Waves AU's

and some other stuff..

any of you guys done the upgrade or running this OSX have any thoughts to share or pointers for things to look for that caused problems??

is the upgrade worth doing or am I better off where I am with Mountain Lion [so what's in it for me]?

sweepy

I run El Capitan on my 2008 Mac Pro and my 2015 MacBook Pro without any issues at all. When El Capitan came out, it broke the Native Instruments plugins, but this was fixed by an Apple update

Clarky

thanks matey… 

I reckon next weekend I'll connect up the spare external hard-drive that has a copy of my main drive on in and try the upgrade on that..

Teetonetal

Check any external HW is compatibile. I can't upgrade as neither my Midi controller or AI would work.

When it comes to OS, if it's not broken, don't fix it.

sweepy

My old Digidesign 003r works over FW or Thunderbolt, it is a bit of a lottery on older gear unfortunately

Elx

I have just loaded a time machine backup on a new, well, 2nd hand machine, and the NI Komplete 9 will have to be authorised again. I have already installed it on 3 different machines so I am out of licences, this is something I wasn't thinking about, and maybe you should?

Clarky

Teetonetal said:

Check any external HW is compatibile. I can't upgrade as neither my Midi controller or AI would work.

When it comes to OS, if it's not broken, don't fix it.

not broke don't fix is certainly something I subscribe to too...

Clarky

Elx said:

I have just loaded a time machine backup on a new, well, 2nd hand machine, and the NI Komplete 9 will have to be authorised again. I have already installed it on 3 different machines so I am out of licences, this is something I wasn't thinking about, and maybe you should?

I have Komplete 9 on 2 macs so I should be clear there..

Clarky

been thinking about this now for a different perspective...

is there anything in El Capitan [beyond the obvious "we only support stuff from OSX blah blah and up"] that is a compelling reason for go for it?

like performance improvements or some killer feature

bingefeller

Clarky said:

been thinking about this now for a different perspective...

is there anything in El Capitan [beyond the obvious "we only support stuff from OSX blah blah and up"] that is a compelling reason for go for it?

like performance improvements or some killer feature

I don't think so.  If your setup is working OK I don't think there's a reason to upgrade and risk breaking something.  I'm definitely not going to be upgrading at the moment as everything for me (Boss GT-001 and free softsynths) are working perfectly.  

Clarky

I sem to recall that from Mavericks and up, the USB was improved..

the USB sometimes loses connectivity with the Axe-FX

so this is the main selling point for me to upgrade..

at least I can do it on a spare hard drive and not risk my main one...

Gagaryn

El Capitan is supposedly less resource hungry. It will run on most macs from 2008 and later. It seemed to improve things when i installed it onto an old MBP from 2008. Like others have said, the NI issues are now resolved. 

Clarky

Gagaryn said:

El Capitan is supposedly less resource hungry. It will run on most macs from 2008 and later. It seemed to improve things when i installed it onto an old MBP from 2008. Like others have said, the NI issues are now resolved. 

that's interesting… less resource hungry could be a good thing for me…

when I'm working on movie trailers my Mac gets thrashed..