El Capitan is as solid as the giant granite monolith that towers over Yosemite Valley. The days of dramatic operating-system updates are over. Macworld wax lyrical about it too: “ Should you update to El Capitan? Unreservedly yes-I’ve found it to be stable, it’s free, it’ll download and install itself on your Mac with nearly no intervention, and it’ll bring with it improved security, speed, and functionality. The Guardian UK ended their short review by stating “ I can’t see why you wouldn’t upgrade, although maybe wait and see whether any bugs pop up before updating your main machine.” If the solution is on our end we will address it with Finale 2014.El Capitan is said to bring serious speed enhancements for both new and old, compatible Macs. ![]() …at this point we advise against upgrading to El Capitan immediately upon its release. Specifically, opening certain dialog boxes (involving expressions, articulations, and others) can cause Finale to crash. “we’ve discovered some new incompatibilities with Finale 2014d. ![]() Updated: Add notation software and UI problems to this list. Updated: when you are ready, here’s four hours of Shatner while you wait on your machine to backup and upgrade. That was tasteless, sorry – but I think I’ve written this story ten times in the history of CDM, so you can expect the quality to degrade as I age. I’m not preaching abstinence I’m saying use protection. ![]() I mean, uh, make sure you have a backup before you upgrade.īackup first. So before you make “love to the mountain,” be aware of the risks, and make sure Spock catches you. Why Shatner? Kirk in Star Trek V climbs the mountain El Capitan, in Yosemite Park (each a namesake of an OS X update now). Will this get fixed? Yes, and if past OS updates are any indication, reasonably quickly. Everything “just worked,” back when Steve Jobs was with us and I used my Mac Classic at school which I went to and from uphill in the snow both ways even in September, until the sad day when Gibson bought Studio Vision Pro and killed Christmas forever and the End Times were nigh. I remember the golden days, back in Yosemite, OS X East Bay, OS X Delayed BART train, 10.6, 10.5, 10.4.8, 10.3, Mac OS X Puma, Mac OS X Llama, Mac OS X Rabid Kitten Beta 3, System 8, System 7.5.3 revision 2, System 7.blergh, System 6, PowerBook 5300 On Fire, Apple III Drop It On A Table Until It Starts Working… no problems whatsoever. Why have they abandoned pros? Ah, too true. I’m all set to use my VST versions of my plug-ins and Maschine in glorious monochromatic orange.īack in my day, Apple never used to have OS upgrade quality issues. The good news here – in NI’s case, at least, there are already beta drivers. (Their hardware is fine, but not with all the integration features.) Meanwhile, Elektron say their Overbridge tech isn’t quite working with 10.11 yet, either. Here, we only have heard from NI, but it’s a huge issue – kernel panics with the MK1 editions of Traktor Kontrol S4, X1, Traktor Audio 2, and Maschine, plus the Audio 2/4/8 DJ and Guitar Rig 3 Rig Kontrol 3 hardware. And I suspect we’ll hear from more developers through the day, not just Arturia and NI (feel free to sound off in comments).Ĭheck hardware, too. Either way, we’re talking software qualification. Arturia says they’ve seen issues with standalone software, too. We’ve heard that from Native Instruments and Arturia already. Some Audio Unit plug-ins don’t pass validation. ![]() The operating system: OS X 10.11 “El Capitan.” I could almost turn it into a Mad Libs post. This post occurs with each new OS, a bit like some sites do Holiday Shopping Guides, or April Fools’ jokes. Then once you’ve verified the stuff you need is compatible, go for it – it’s probably better than the last OS once the wrinkles are ironed out. If you don’t like things breaking, you should wait a bit. There’s a new operating system from Apple.
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