Pro Tools 9 now fully Lion-compatible

Some Pro Tools audio forum users have been getting a little fidgety of late, waiting for the promised full compatibility between PT and OS X Lion. Now, Avid has put their minds at ease with the 9.0.6 update, proving they still very much care about PT 9 users now that Pro Tools 10 has launched.

While v9.0.5 introduced Lion support as a public beta, the latest update is fully qualified, and includes fixes for all the bugs users had spotted. These ranged from the widely irritating "nothing happens when you hit play" gripe, to clip pans and asymmetric audio fades not importing via AAF from Avid Media Composer 6.

Other problems fixed in the 9.0.6 update include:

• Pro Tools would momentarily freeze every minute after changing the computer name in the OS X hostconfig file (as
  recommended in System 5 and Pro Tools manual) and disconnecting the computer from the Internet.
• Plug-in automation was lost when copying between multi-mono and multi-channel versions of the same plug-in.
• When routing through a bus, Low Latency Monitoring would not function properly.
• On Mac OS X 10.7.x ("Lion"), when changing buffer settings in Playback Engine with the "Minimize Additional I/O Latency"
  option enabled, Pro Tools would quit unexpectedly.
• In Destructive Punch mode, when punch commands are issued within a couple seconds of play or start commands are
  issued from a 9-pin controller connected to the dubber satellite system.

For the full list of bugfixes, have a look at Avid's readme file when you download the Pro Tools 9.0.6 update from the Avid Knowledge Base.

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