Has anyone installed and ran Pro Tools LE on a Hackintosh? How is it running? How many tracks can you run? Have there been any problems?


Thanks.

I´ve tryed myself Protools LE with an Mbox and an AMD/nvidia based setup. Didn´t work properly, but that probably was cause the usb controller on Nvidia chipsets is pure crap.

I´ve eard of many other people running PT LE with intel chipsets with no problem. I myself have manage to run Protools TDM on a hackintosh with no problems

Running PT without any problems. All is fine and great performance.
There have been no problems related to hackintosh afaik.

BiTRiP

Runs fine except for the MAJOR problem I have with my iLok not playing nice.

Basically, it's not reading the authrizations correctly and asks me to constantly authorize purchased plugins whenever I boot or instantiate said plugin in PT, even though thats what the iLok is for - a glorified authorizer.

But I don't think this issue relates to Pro Tools.... more so something to do with the OS maybe.

No problems here with baby protools (mbox, 7.3.1)

no problems with PT LE 7.4, no issues so far

Hi, 12inch.
Did you solved your problem with iLok?

Sorry. Havent been on here in a while.

To answer your question - no I never did solve the problem. I kinda gave up in the end. I just dont use my iLok plugs on the OS X partition. Funny thing is, they work fine on the XP partition with ProTools. Very weird.

Are you having a similar problem?

Hi 12inch,

No. I have no problem about my iLok.
I'm working with ProTools LE 7.4 cs3 in Leopard 10.5.1.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte P35-DS3L. A Q6600. A GeForce 8600GT XFX Professional.

Have you tied to reinstall ProTools?
Because when you install ProTools it will install the necessary drives for its hardware (including the related with PACE, iLok).
May be using CleanApp or AppZap could help you in desinstall ProTools to reinstall it cleanly.

Good luck.

could you be a bit more specific with _the usb controller on nvidia chipset_ thing
would like to know if you have the same issue I have.
after installing nvinject my mbox output crackels!
if you want to see my posts
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=95372
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,191.0.html
http://nvinject.free.fr/forums/viewtopic.php?t=368

oh man!! i'd be so glad if this could be solved somehow!

Hi to all huys,
I managed to run Logic 8.0.0 with Mbox 2
on Asus P5KR with the driver fof the Mbox 2 that came with PT LE 7.4 no cs installed.
Logic is fine, but Pro tools shows DAE error concernig hard disk and no playback and recording is available. That happens always. I have tryed with all 7.4 cs updates, but always the same error.
My Hard disk is SATA Seagate 7200/8.

Would you plese share your experience with BIOS settings and so on.

Mine are
SATA as AHCI
Jmicron on IDE

Hi Poredneto,
Which number of DAE error?
Could be that you have a problem related with the category of disk (Transfer, Playback, Record) that you decide in WorkSpace (Windows > Workspace)?
Or could be related with permission?
Who is the owner of your audio disk? When you do get info of that disk what can you do (Read & Write)?
Is your Audio disk a different disk than the system one? Or another partition of the same physical disk?
Or, do you have only one logical volume (system, audio and video outputing from the same logical volume)?

pepechuelo79,
You helped me a lot, because I have never used PT 7.4 before. I transfered my test-purposes session from Desktop(system drive) to Audio(different partiion on the same physical disk).

BTW I have one HD with 5 partitions:
Leo (Kalyway 10.5.1)
Leo i (Iatkos)
Win XP (NTFS one for XP)
Library (supports Win XP as it is still NTFS)
Audio (Mac OS Journalled; as the first two are)

I set the permissions on Audio drive to Playback and audio files started to playback.

I tested it on several sessions. All was fine. I could record if i switch to record. Great. Your help was awesome. Thanks for that!


Even after that I would list a certain example here that confused me:
-Opening any ALL trax session from Charles Dye's "el - she loves me" sessiom feeds the DAE 9131 error and no playback is possible. The mentioned session is saved on HD, but under PC I was able to open it and play it back. The disk is set to P (Playback).
-DAE 9131 was the error I described in previous post, and you pepechuelo79 helped me solve that. But now it persist for HD sessions.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

That's exactly the same problem I had. Turning on video acceleration makes most usb audio cards to crackle in my AMD nforce4 setup.

The only solution is to buy a supported usb pci card.

Poredneto, with that number of error go to http://answerbase.digidesign.com and paste it in text search.
You will get some possible explanations and workarround of that problem.
Normally, any audio disk is set in R (Record). Always.
To my taste your problem could be related with permissions/ownership of the disk. But I'm not an expert.
If a particular session insists in exibit that error do the following, create a new session with the same characterists of the original problematic one (Same bit depth, same sample rate, same audio format, same everything).
Then File > Import > Session Data. Navigate and select one track from that problematic session. Import it (probably it would be not nessesary to copy sound files, just link).
If everything is OK repeat that procedure for the rest of the tracks.
Good luck.

What's the most basic version of Pro Tools? Im thinking of buying a cheap m-audio box just for it, is LE the lowest? Does it require a dongle?

cheers,

Woj

Hi Woj,
As I understand the cheapest ProTools is the M-Powered one.
ProTools M-Powered doesn't need any dongle. Just many plug ins and Digidesign options like DV Toolkit 2.0 or Music Production Toolkit.

DAE 9131 errors are caused by trying to record or playback from a disk that has a MBR partition scheme. Disks partitioned with GPT and formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled should not have this problem.

A HUGE THANK YOU!

since I have a notebook, I need a pcmcia card!
could you suggest me one that is supported?
what makes some being supported and some not?
in windows I don't have such troubles, and what is in osx causing them?

thank you again!
finally an enlightening answer

I have no idea, maybe is a irq sharing problem between the graphics card/pci express bus and the native usb ports.

If you are going to buy a usb pcmcia card, just stay away from via based ones, they are known to work badly.

! LOL !

Pro tools M-powered NEEDS iLOCK!!!!!!
and wrks fine here.. i downloaded all the mac drivers and it works! but i dont use it ...i love logic!
Maybe ill sold....

a big thank you again!

I assume that via based means that it has a via chip! is that right?
looking around for pcmcia_s I didn't find any chip specifications!
the card should also have osx drivers, and the one I found don't specify to have osx support! since macs come with all usb/firewire I'm affraid this could be smth unsupported! any suggestions?

refering to irq sharing, this is the first reason that makes sense why/where gfx can interfere with my soundcard! great point!

peace man!

You can attach several different usb cards into real macs, and so in a hackintosh. The system already has drivers for various usb controllers. So even with no indication about mac drivers in the card's box, it might work. I have an usb pci card working flawless in my Athlon x2 Nvidia osx setup. I know it doesn't use via chipset, but I can't remember which manufacturer is.

not neccessarily, some versions of M-Powered (i think the education versions mostly) require an iLok, while others just require you have specific M-Audio hardware



and btw digidesign have released a leopard compatible "pre-release" version
http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=...on=news_details

hi VooD!
I was refering to pcmcia cards and most of them don't mention to have osx support or which kind of chipset they use!
I finally bought a cheap delock usb adapter through which the mbox doesn't load!
I really whished I had a pci slot on my laptop !
On one boot I noticed a statement like "not recoverable IRQ error" but this refered to my cardbus not to the built in usb card!

do you know a way to view irq repartisation in osx? I don't have such setting in my bios!
or even a way to adjust the irq number to the devices?
since your post I'm getting more and more interested in this topic!

regards

I know some notebooks have problems with pcmcia/pci interfaces. In fact is one of the main reasons of ethernet / compatible wifi chipsets not working in notebooks. Maybe you first should adress that. I know some guy posted here a few kext in order to make pcmcia/pci buses to work in problematic notebooks.

I see there's a new version of Pro Tools now works on Leopard 10.5.3 , finally...(used to only work in Tiger)
(link) (Link 2 - http://www.audiotechsupport.com/2008/05/28...053-well-almost) Any successful hack installs?

He VooD!
with or without solutioning smth, your post make me happy!

I know that kexts! without those I wouldn't have made my pcmcia card working!
but they just make your pcmcia controller be recognized and ready to work!
I can mount a usb-HDD through the pcmcia-card, but my soundcard doesn't mount!
who knows where here could be the issue!

anyway I have seen with lspci -v that there is a latency(64) on the pcmcia card and this is quite awfull when working with sound cards, I think!
so, some knowledge about IRQ setting otions in OSX would be the most helpfull think I could get at the moment, to realy be able to tell, if it is the IRQs or IRQ-sharing causing my sound bugs! brrrr

@synaesthesia
I thought I wasn't allowed to download that update, but it worked!
as soon I get 10.5.3 working I'll try it and could tell more! but I don't see any reason why this shouldn't, since PT le works on Leo and worked even digides. called it not supported!
the audiotech link doesnt work!

ps: my english seems to be quite bad...sorry!

i have the old mbox...it works fine with protools on my macbook running leopard...
would the hackingtosh install the old mbox without any hassle???

i use a P5B-Deluxe mobo...and im going to use the kalyway 10.5.2 DVD

My DIGI002 console & 7.4.2 seem to work pretty well on my hackintosh (10.5.4)

Only problem I have is that ever since the 10.5.3 update my waves plugins pop up with a blank GUI.
Not sure what that is all about..
That happened with the 5.8 version of the plugins and it is still happening with the v6 waves plugins.

Just in case this was keeping anyone awake at night, the issue turned out to be the graphics driver.
Once I update the natit stuff the waves plugin GUI's worked fine too.

protools le 7.4.2 on 10.5.4


i had NO problems at all, in very very heavy sessions under 10.5.3,

since the upgrade to 10.5.4 i have graphical glitches,

the problem is that mute and solo status are not updated,,,for example,

alltracks are muted,,,but some appear not to be.

this has no effect on performace or anything other than being a little confusing sometimes,

but i might revert to 10.5.3 since i used protools a lot.

I had graphics problems after 10.5.4, and it was due to my video card not running quartz properly.
Once I fixed that my graphic troubles went away.

I cant get my protools 7.4 to work
The M-box played the computer audio out, and i didnt have the internal audio working, so i thought the computer was hogging the audio IO. But i fixed the built in audio ALC882M and protools still hangs at
"Creating DAE Objects"
anyone have any ideas.
I am using OSX ideneb 10.5.4 and protools 7.4 with the cs3 update.
Any suggestions would be nice

If I am not mistaken, for Leopard, you need to be using Pro Tools 7.4.2


give that a shot

Cool, just downloading it, thanx Man.
I thought i had the wrong version.

Still didn't work. I am trying from scratch again, maybe putting the 7.4 on before i put 7.4.2 (the intel mac version) did something. Now Reformat ReiDeneb rebuild.
I need Pro Tools to work. Then i can put it on both my intels. I am sick of windows.

Yes, Pro Tools works. 7.4.2
I opened the activity monitor in the Applications>Utilities folder and noticed that COREAUDIOIO is red and crashed before i booted protools. So i force quit it and protools loaded.

You guys rock.
I cant bounce to file as an mp3 but everything is fully functional. I can get something else to make mp3s outa my bounced wav SDII or aiff files.

as far as i'm aware, bouncing to mp3 is a paid option....

if you haven't paid for it you can't use it <like me>


a suitable alternative is to bounce wav,,and convert to mp3 via itunes

Pro tools LE 7.4.2 working great
Only one problem: sometime I have some 9035 DAE error when trying to automatically searching file for re-link
don't really know why ?...

what would be the perfect choise to run protools in my hack?
i need hardware if i remember, otherwise protools won't start
the most cheap solution (emulator??? )

I used to work with it in my xjob that they own mac and now when i need to edit, i miss it

dont know of an emulator, but you can get a cheap used mbox on ebay or your local pawn shop, i have seen for as little as 50bucks, then use 7.4.2 UB protools installer and you have the newest or very new (version 8 is available soon or now)
an emulator for connected hardware would be cool.

It used to work fine.
I am using Pro Tools 7.4.2 and 10.5.4 and it seems to work ok, but if i start editing regions, the system will start to produce white noise (hiss) on playback with nothing audible but noise.
I have to quit protools then launch it again, but the duration seems to shorten til it happens again unless i reboot the computer.
I dont know if this is something new, i had pulled many regions in before without this happening. And i notice now, my USB connected Realtek WLan keeps dropping out. And i have to restart it. And if i am recording in protools, restarting the realtek causes a usb interrupt in protools and drops the recording.
I am curious if they are related.
I just did a clean format reinstall of 10.5.4 and the problem still exists.

What is your hardware? Firstly I mean motheboard.
What is your Pro Tools Version and digidesign hardware?