Pt Digi 001 -- Upgrading Os 9.1 To Osx Options

[quaco]

Hello,

I may have found the answer on another person's thread, but nothing beats having a discussion about your own personal case...

I have been running Pro Tools Digi 001 on a G4 with OS 9.1 for quite a while now, and everything's been fine. But the the OS 9.1 has begun to become outdated ... endless Shockwave/Flash error messages ... so many things made for OSX only now.

So, I think I'm ready to upgrade to OSX. I could either have both OS 9.1 and OSX on the computer and use the 9.1 to run the Pro Tools and the OSX for everything else, or I could upgrade the Digi 001 as well. Apparently, it will work up to 10.3 (Panther).

Are there any things I need to worry about here?

What are the steps I must take? (I still live in the dark ages, and am scared of making some irreversible change to something that works well.)

Thank you for whatever information you may be able to offer.

quaco

[ronaldl]

Hi quaco,

It would seem that your first step would be getting OS X Panther and configuring your computer to dual-boot between OS 9 & X. All of the above information is excellent in that regard. There are a number of places to get Panther (Google), but as mentioned, be sure you get 10.3.4 or earlier. I just checked my Panther install disk for system requirements and while it will even work on a G3 with only 128MB RAM and 2GB HD space, DAWs like Pro Tools tax your computer. I would suggest at least doubling your RAM to 512MB minimum. Once you set it up to dual-boot you can try PT in OS9 as usual and then install and try PT in OS X. Or just use OS X for everything other than PT as you mentioned. But you will love OS X.

After that, you can decide whether or not you like running PT in OS X. If so, you can upgrade PTLE as far as v.6.4 and still use your DIGI001. You might find that the migration to OS X and the upgrade to PTLE 6.4 is a wonderful new world and you have no need to go any further. If a year later you start thinking how great it would be to have some of those features in PT 6.9, then you can think about upgrading to a DIGI002.

Re: 001 vs. 002? You'd have to go to their site and check out the specs for the 002 and see how they differ, but for the most part they're very similar. A major difference is that 001 is PCI and 002 is firewire. Macs tend to have sleep issues when PCI cards are installed and I was not able to put my computer to sleep properly while I had the 001.