Hi. The accessibility support for Pro Tools will be in an update to Pro Tools 8.
In order to run Pro Tools 8, you need an Intel Mac (the Power PC support stopped with Pro Tools 7). You must be running Leopard (10.5.5) or later. Actually, you might need a later version than that for full accessibility support (can't comment on that yet). Of course, you'll also need a qualifying M-Audio interface to use M-Powered, or a Avid/Digi interface to run LE. Pro Tools HD, of course, is only compatible with Mac Pro. Beyond these requirements, the number of processor cores that are available on your computer, the processor's speed, the amount of memory, and the speed of your hard drive will affect how much you're actually able to do with Pro Tools. Pro Tools will run on a low-end iMac or Mini, for example, but the number of software instruments, effects, and tracks of audio will be limited. The single 5400 RPM hard drive in the Mini and on MacBooks will prevent you from using a large number of audio tracks, will cause software instruments to switch between instrument sounds slowly, and will generally result in a sluggish Pro Tools experience. You really need a dual 7200 RPM drive setup, or better, for best performance. If you plan to use a lot of software instruments, you should have 4GB of memory at minimum. Every effect or software instrument that you add to your project consumes CPU power. Lower-end machines will be able to taste all of the features, but will run out of power quickly as effects and instruments are added to a project. A higher-end iMac with an I5 or I7 processor, or a Mac Pro should be your choice if you intend to work with anything other than small projects. If you're serious about doing this, don't cheap out on a low-end machine. I've been talking to people on other lists that already have plans about how they plan to frankinhack Minis by replacing the internal drive, swapping out the optical drive for another HD, using an external drive as their second drive, etc. After they fully upgrade and retrofit their Mini, though, they could have just as well bought a nice iMac, with a far larger 3.5" form-factor drive and faster CPU. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Karen Lewellen Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 11:47 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: an Imac and voiceover? laughter! i was feeling the same. I got my answer long ago. Tiger is all this might do, making it not worth the upgrade, since as it is now it works fine for my personal needs. Once pro tools gives me a reason, I can simply get another machine. Kare On Wed, 19 May 2010, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: > for the sake of everyones sanitty on the list, shal we just agree to > disagree on this one Karren? > To answer your original question, if the iMac has a 600mhz cpu, it > will be able to run tiger (The first version of osx with voiceover) > well enough but will not be able to run leopard or snow leopard - I am > guessing that pt will require that you run leopard or sl for it to > work when the new version comes out. > You will be able to do a tiger install yourself since it is fully > accessible, so perhaps you could use the iMac as a internet surfing > machine running tiger to get used to vo when the time is right to > purchase a new computer for pt? > > Iether way, good luck with pt, regardless of which version or computer > your using. > > Cheers, Ben. > > On 19/05/2010, Nicolai Svendsen <chojiro1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Yes, that's correct. It depends on what configuration she has, but >> Leopard can use G4 and G5 867MHZ processors. >> >> Regards, >> Nic >> Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com >> GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com >> Facebook >> Twitter >> Skype: Kvalme >> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 >> AIM: cincinster >> >> On May 19, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Ana G wrote: >> >>> I just read a blog post on something else, and I noticed that one of >>> the people who commented on the post said she had an iMac with >>> Leopard. 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