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A number of software houses that develop pluggins and hardware have warned against upgrading OSX to El Capitan. Although the update has been well received by the majority of users, with most reporting improved performance, there have been some changes to things like the AU standard and other stuff which doesnt affect the majority but does impact music producers.
Native instruments have issues with a number of their AU plugins with OSX reporting errors when they are scanned (they have a work around for this which involves downgrading an osx system file) and issues with some of their older hardware. Others are similarly affected.
I havent updated so cant say if synfire is affected or not.
Sun, 2015-10-11 - 16:13 Permalink
Thanks for the heads up. The official recommendation from Cognitone is to wait for Apple to publish 2 updates at least until making the move to a new OS X release.
In the past, I've had a lot of hassle with almost every OS X upgrade, costing me a week or so of tinkering and hacking until things went smooth again.
Synfire and HN2 were tested on El Capitan, although only to the point of installing on a blank Mac and trying a few songs/arrangements whether it works or not. No issues came up yet, but all the warnings we received from NI and other major plug-in vendors indicate there are potential issues looming around the corner.
If you did the El Capitan upgrade already and encounter any issues with Cognitone software, please report them, so we can look into it and provide a fix.
Thu, 2015-10-22 - 21:26 Permalink
Still havent tried it, but looks like its moving in the right direction.
The OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 update improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac
This update:
• Improves installer reliability when upgrading to OS X El Capitan
• Improves compatibility with Microsoft Office 2016
• Fixes an issue where outgoing server information may be missing from Mail
• Resolves an issue that prevented display of messages and mailboxes in Mail
• Resolves an issue that prevents certain Audio Unit plug-ins from functioning properly <------------ main issue fixed?
• Improves VoiceOver reliability
• Adds over 150 new emoji characters with full Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 support
Sat, 2015-11-07 - 15:44 Permalink
I have been warned: Just bricked my MacBook Air while upgrading to El Capitan. Doesn't boot anymore, stops half way through and hangs. Can't even unlock the boot volume from recovery console and disk utility. Wow.
I'm glad I'm in the office and not on the road. Now I have to waste a day or so, trying to reinstall everything from scratch. Whether that's possible where El Capitan already sits on the recovery partition, only half installed? I don't know.
Sat, 2015-11-07 - 18:57 Permalink
Update:
After 3 attempts to upgrade, I gave up. Countless complaints on user forums seem to confirm there are serious issues, hanging the Mac on startup and messing with emails being reported quite often. At least I'm not alone. I don't know what the default sort order of reviews is on the Apple Store, but the positive reviews listed on top looks "featured" to me. But that's only my impression.
Fortunately, restoring Yosemite from Time Machine worked. I won't touch El Capitan again until at least 10.11.3 or so.
Users of HN2 and Synfire that haven't yet upgraded and have no urgent need to do so should possibly also wait until these issues are fixed.
However, this isn't to say that El Capitan couldn't also work fine. There are quite a few users that are already running HN2 and Synfire on El Capitan. Seems to depend on factors we don't yet understand.
Wed, 2015-12-09 - 01:21 Permalink
In the 70's - 90's I loved being on the 'cutting edge' of everything.. And then I lost too much blood. About 12 years ago, I decided, I was going to wait, until a few updates were done, or enough people not complaining..
I plan on staying with Yosemite for a while...