I'm absolutely shocked beyond belief that not a single person, not even
Slau, has written in on the list about this. as of yet. At least, not
that I've seen.
Remember that today for us Mac users is mager upgrade time. This means
OS Monterrey is getting an upgrade officially to OS 13 Ventura.
Along with this, we may even be getting the official iPadOS 16, though
I'm more here to focus on the mac.
It's important to note that the update today for Ventura is *not* a
beta... Not even a public beta. It's the official release.
That being said, however, doesn't mean that just because the update is
out, you immediately should jump for joy with excitement, "it's here,
it's here,
it's here, finally!"
Let me say this: During the beta cicle, neither myself nor others could
say much due to nondisclosure NDA agreements. There are probably still
things privately
being tested which people are on NDA regarding; they most likely
probably can't even disclose they are! testing in the first place, so
it's most likely
probably a waist of your time to ask around.
What I'd say is, check, check, check, and oh did I mention, check! And
by the way, check! OK, you get my point.
The bottom line is, will things work with Ventura? Prr'rrobbably, yes.
You should! key word, should! be fine as far as DAW's like Logic,
Reaper, ProTools,
etc. But! that being said, be careful. The bigger concern is plugins and
such.
For new users just getting on the bandwaggon with all this stuff, let me
be very black and white crystal clear and maybe even a bit direct with
you. Even
though this would be an official release, you still do this at your own
risk. A lot of developers haven't yet officially, and that's the key
word here,
officially, declared and certified that their software is fully
compatible. I definitely don't think Avid has with ProTools.
Also note that just because a DAW launches and works in Ventura for the
most part doesn't mean it's fully compatible. Depending on your current
software,
and current hardware setup, you might luck out. Things for you may work
flawlessly. But then, the next Joe Bird from down the street may have a
totally
different setup configuration. He/She/They try installing Ventura, and
it wind up being an absolute utter dreadful nightmare.
If you have another secondary mac you can try things with, it would be
very advisable to try Ventura there before putting it on your main
production machine.
Once you know that it works OK for your environment, then you could
migrate things over slowly little by little to your main machine. The reason
I say slowly little by little is that if, hypothetically something does
break, you'll remember the last thing in steps you did, and either can
undo it,
or can say, whoops, that's where things broke. Then you can evaluate,
how important is it really that this thing that broke really is. Is it
something
though completely broken you can tollerate, or is it a total
dealbreaker. And hopefully if you're smart, because it broke first on
your test machine/environment,
it's not like you brought your main machine to a halt, sota speak.
If you, like me, don't have a separate system, then you really only have
3 options: 1, best choice, don't do it at all, just wait until things
are fully
certified to be compatible, 2. Do it, but be darn sure you have either a
Time Machine backup of Monterrey, or wherever you were previously, or 3,
use an
external hard disk, or find a way to partition your current disk without
wiping it and dule boot between the 2 OS's until you know things totally
are safe.
In conclusion, I'm simply just saying, be really really really careful
today! Just because the update is there doesn't mean you just have to
have it right
away. If it means making or breaking your job, then make it.
My mamma always told me, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. LOL!
Chris.
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