Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs9 Update for Mac OS X
For Pro Tools|HD or Pro Tools|HD Accel Systems with Pro Tools TDM 6.4 Only

Index of All Pro Tools CS Updates

Note: Users should also download and install the Pro Tools 6.4cs6 Plug-in Updater (if they have not done so already). Those fixes are not included with 6.4cs9. It does not matter if you install the Pro Tools 6.4cs6 Plug-In Updater before or after Pro Tools 6.4cs9.

October, 2004

Will not work without Pro Tools TDM 6.4 for Pro Tools|HD or Pro Tools|HD Accel systems already installed.

• Pro Tools 6.4 Information

From the Included Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs9 Read Me:

Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs9 Update Installer

(Mac OS X 10.3.2 or 10.3.4 Only)

What's Fixed in Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs9?

Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs9 for Mac OS X contains the following:

Fixed: Intermittent Pops or Incorrect Audio when Playing a Session (Item #54406)

• When playing a session, occasional pops or random audio could be heard. The problem could be exacerbated by using a high Hardware Buffer setting.

Fixed: Potential Crash when Opening Sessions Containing Assigned MIDI Inputs or Outputs (Items #52092, 54498)

• A crash occurs when opening some sessions with saved MIDI sources or destinations.

Fixes Included from Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs8:

Fixed: When Using Pro Tools in +12 dB Fader Gain Mode, the Level on Bus Paths or Hardware Outputs Could Be Incorrectly Increased by 6 dB (Item #51907)

• Reconfiguring the mixer on a large session where the surround mixer is spread out over multiple DSPs could result in buss paths or hardware outputs increasing in level by 6 db. In this state, Master faders on these paths would not work. Prior to this fix, the only workaround was to "save session copy" with +6 db selected.

Fixed: Meters can display incorrectly in post-fader meter mode in a +12 dB session (Item #50256)

• When using Pro Tools in post-fader meter mode in a +12 dB session, the meter level will start to decrease with a full code signal if the fader gain is more than +10 dB. While this issue also affected the stereo mixer on 6.4, only the surround mixers have been fixed with this CPR.

Fixes Included from Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs7:

Fixed: When Importing or browsing OMF media that referenced certain SD II files, Pro Tools Would Crash (Item #51931)

• Pro Tools 6.4 crashes when importing an OMF or browsing OMF media containing SDII audio with a .OMF extension.

Fixed: Problems when Relinking SD II media containing a .omf extension (Item #51955)

• Pro Tools 6.4 fails to relink, or crashes when attempting to relink SD II audio with a .OMF extension. Prior workaround was to use Pro Tools 6.2.3.

Fixed: Sample-Rate Error messages when importing an OMF (Item #49709)

• When importing certain OMFs, Pro Tools would display the error, "Could not create a new document because: an unexpected error happened while trying to determine the file’s audio sample rate." Prior workaround was to use DigiTranslator 1.x.

Fixed: Crash when importing OMF's generated with Adrenaline-based Media Composers (Item #53149)

• Pro Tools may crash when importing an OMF generated by more recent versions of Media Composer.

Fixes Included from Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs6: None

• Note: Customers should also download and install the Pro Tools 6.4cs6 Plug-in Updater. Those fixes are not included in 6.4cs9.

Fixes Included from Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs5:

Playing a Session or Auditioning a File Could Result in a DAE –9035 Error:
A DAE –9035 Error could result when playing a session or auditioning a file, and one of the following occurred:

• Files, or files in folders named with certain ascii or European characters had been imported/converted, or imported into a session (Item #33211, 40284).
• The session parent folder name in the Finder was longer than 31 characters (Item #40320).
• A file with more than 31 characters had been imported without copying or conversion into a session (Item #50332,
  48197, 48198).

Deleting A Selection On A Track Could Cause Other Regions To Be Deleted (Item #41391, 48214)

• A session could get into a state where deleting a portion of a track could result in multiple regions being deleted.

Object Selector Could Not Select Regions On Duplicated Tracks (Item #42891)

• It was not possible to object-select regions after duplicating a track that contained an existing object selection.

Fixes Included from Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs4:

Using ProControl, When Two Of The Same Plug-Ins Are On The Same Track, De-Instanciating One and Selecting the Other Could Cause a Crash (Item #50422)

• If the user inserted two of the same plug ins on a track, deinstanciated the second one, and selected the first one with ProControl, a crash could result.

Muting a Track With an HTDM plug-in Would Still Allow Audio to Pass Through (Item # 46313)

• This bug would happen if there were more than 8 total HTDM streams in a session, and if at least one of the HTDM plugins had a different # of inputs than outputs.

Fixes Included from Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs3:

Errors In Entries While Using Feet+Frames (Item #49042)

• When the timeline display was set to Feet+Frames, entry errors occurred when using pull factors.

Fixes Included from Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs1:

Failure When Using Large AAF Sequences (Item #47851)

• When opening a large AAF sequence, importing session data from a large AAF sequence, or viewing a large AAF sequence in DigiBase browsers, Pro Tools may hang without opening the session forcing the user to re-launch the Pro Tools application.

Who Should use Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs9?

This update is recommended for all Pro Tools TDM 6.4 users and contains fixes in the following areas:

• MIDI
• Mixing in Surround formats
• Importing OMF sequences into Pro Tools
• Importing AAF sequences into Pro Tools
• Relinking files with a .omf extension
• Mixing in Surround Formats
• Editing
• Importing files containing ASCII or over 31 characters
• Opening sessions with file or folder names over 31 characters
• Feet+Frames display mode
• ProControl

Updating Pro Tools

To update to Pro Tools 6.4cs9:

1. Verify Pro Tools TDM 6.4 is installed on your Pro Tools|HD or Pro Tools|HD Accel system.
2. Quit the Pro Tools application if it is open.
3. Locate the Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs9 installer and launch it.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to install Pro Tools 6.4cs9.
5. When installation is complete, restart your computer.

This update installs the following files:

• Pro Tools (v6.4cs9)
• DAE (v6.4cs9)
• Surround Mixer (v6.4cs8)
• Surround Dithered Mixer (v6.4cs8)*
• DigiStreamManager (v6.4cs4)*
• ProControl (v6.4cs4)
• Digidesign StreamManager Swapper (v6.4cs4)

*The Pro Tools installer installs the Surround Mixer and DigiStreamManager 512-sample buffer file by default.

About Digidesign StreamManager Swapper

The Digidesign StreamManager Swapper provides two versions of the Digidesign StreamManager system component that is necessary for use with HTDM plug-ins. It provides a convenient way to exchange the standard 512-sample buffer version and a low-latency 128-sample buffer version of StreamManager. The low-latency StreamManager yields throughput latencies four times smaller than the default version.

Both the 512 and 128-sample bufffer versions have been updated to version 6.4cs4 for the Pro Tools 6.4cs4 release and this Pro Tools 6.4cs9 release.

Download Instructions — Pro Tools TDM 6.4cs9 Update

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For Japanese, Korean and Chinese Simplified Operating Systems:

Index of All Pro Tools CS Updates (NOTE: After installing 6.4cs9, you should ALSO install the 6.4cs6 Plug-In Update, which also works with the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Simplified operating systems)

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