Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000

By MPC 4 ME Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:13 pm
foge1 wrote:Heres an idea.
I have often used an external drive with a separate osx boot on it for projects where I am working in other peoples facilities.
If you have an external hard drive you could create a partition and install osx10.4. Then try booting your machine from that partition.
If it boots up and all works. then install aksys and peak onto that partition.

You then also have a portable instal of osx with all your favorite stuff on.
geoff


I think the only possible way to figure out if your mac is compatibl with tiger is to check its release and check which tiger version it initially shipped with. there is an application called Mactracker (or something) which could help you with this. I think mine initially shipped with 10.4.10, so anything below that wont work.

By eldorado Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:01 am
I just bought this mac pro so it had 10.5.1 on it. As soon as I hooked it up to the net it checked for an update by itself and I let it install to 10.5.2. I was stupid in not checking if aksys had problems with it or not. When I was using aksys before I had an old dell so I haven't tried to run windows on this mac yet or anything. I'm not really computer savy at all. When you say ppc u mean power pc? And how would I go about setting up the mac to run how your getting aksys to run?
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By alpha80 Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:01 pm
^Man, I got no answers.
I'm still on the fence.
I'm on a PC, and for the last 8 weeks, I've been trying to figure out if copping a new harpertown MAC PRO with leopard pre-installed, to run TDM, Serato via 57SSL, Peak, and AkSys is the right move.

Or if I should buy an used Mac Pro, and run tiger for all that^

So I'm not running AkSys on 10.5.1.
I was just wondering if you had.
D@mn. :twisted:
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By bomb beats Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:48 am
Buy a USB 250 zip drive. You can hook it up to the Mac, save your files. Then hook it up to the 4000, and load your files. I do it and it works great.
By eldorado Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:23 pm
Update- aksys is working fine. I don't know what happened but its working fine now. I installed pro tools le since then, I don't know if that had something to do with it. Leopard 10.5.2 and pro tools (003) are also working. Some people are having issues with it or are shook to cop the new mac pro but I'm having success with aksys and pro tools. Just some FYI
By fader-pro Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:43 am
10.5 & ak.sys seem to work OK here.....It's not as organized as with a PC, but sample editing and transfer to and from work fine on my imac. Pro tools 7.4 as the sample editor....