I spoke to Sweetwater about this, and they're not sure what is going on. I
tried calling Avid directly, and, well... you know how hard it is to get a
live human there. If you don't, trust me, you're lucky you've not had to
find out the hard way as I have! So, here's hoping Kevin Reeves, or Slao,
or someone on this list can tell me what in the world I'm doing wrong, as
I'm totally at a loss.
I bought the bundled Protools MP9 from Sweetwater. It came with the USB
Ilok, which by the way, ignore my last message on how to open the ILok, I
feel totally stupid! It helps if you pull the right end of the stick. I
was pulling on the end with the little hole in it! God I feel like an
idiot! No wonder! Anyway, so, it came with the M-Audio Fast Track C400
interface.
OK, someone explain this to me. I got it in a box, not the downloadable
electronic registrration version.
Remember this is PT MP9 version 9.0. Not 9.05, and definitely not V10.
I was told though I could install this under Lion, it wouldn't run until I
installed V9.05, which was a free update.
So, a guy used Team Meeting from Sweetwater, and he helped me download the
9.05 update.
Well, it's important to note. I first tried installing from my included DVD
that was in the box with 9.0. The first attempt failed and said there were
errors though it wouldn't tell me what they were.
I installed this after installing the M Audio drivers that came in the box
on DVD.
Once I re-ran the installer for PT MP9, the next time, it went through fine.
I then plugged in my ILok, as I was told the license should have been
already on it, since my bundle came with an ILok already included. It did
no good. I figured the update failed as maybe I needed to run PT at least
once That wasn't the case the upgrade either keeps failing saying it
incountered errors, or saying no valid ProTools installation found.
I don't even know if my license is correctly on my ILok. I think it is, and
the guy from Sweetwater logged into my account and said it looked to him
like it was indeed on my ILok. I dono how he saw that being he wasn't
remoted into my system at that time, and obviously, didn't have my ILok
plugged into his system.
Don't tell me I can't install 9.0 to Lion then upgrade it to 9.05. Don't
tell me I am gonna have to downgrade to Snow Leo just to get the thing to
install, then upgrade it, then upgrade back to Lion!
I'm gonna be irately livid! if I have to do that! I'm already about to blow
a gaskit over here. I've been working at this just getting the stupid thing
installed literally non stop except for lunch since 10 this morning! That's
no joke!
Chris.
