From Charles Henry James Sent Wed, Apr 14th 1999, 16:59
From Charles Henry James Sent Wed, Apr 14th 1999, 16:59
For those of you who took an interest in my complicated cubase/mac woes, you deserve an update. After getting mac system 8.5, then Cubase 4.0r3, then getting it all up and running: recording, monitoring, and playing back nicely through my monitors, I tried to install some Steinberg plug-ins and had expansion and authorization problems with recycle. Steinberg told me that Apple has come out and admitted that 8.5 corrupts files, and that they (apple) offered a free upgrade to 8.5.1, which cured the bugs. And to call back after I'd done so...So I downloaded the upgrade to 8.5.1 and my machine seems to be running very smoothly, but recycle still won't open. Steinberg said they'd replace it for me, that one disc or the other must be corrupted. Since ReBirth loaded flawlwsly and plays very well, I think I agree with them. I had to create a customized extensions folder for the sound stuff, and it seems to work well. It may sound scary, but it's feally quite simple once you follow directions (in the cubase manual), and it reduces crash potential greatly, since your day to day programs like browsers and graphics programs are in a seperate universe, available by entering the extension manager, choosing the normal settings and restarting the computer. All in all I'm very happy with the Cubase/Layla/mac setup so far, and I'm finally on my way to actually putting fingers to keyboards. Seems like my rig has been dormant for a looong time while getting up to speed with the recording/editing monster. But I've made the leap and my little old four track becomes just an interesting toy. Thanks to all who helped out. More later, Charlie James PS: A local mac technician has told me that there is no problem with system 8.5. He says he's been running it without incident for months, and installing it in businesses all over town. He thinks Steinberg was misleading me.