Pro Tools LE 6.4cs9 Update for Mac OS X
For Digi 002, Digi 002 Rack, Mbox, or Digi 001 Systems Only With Pro Tools LE 6.4

Index of All Pro Tools CS Updates

Note: Users should also download and install the Pro Tools LE 6.4cs6 Plug-in Updater. 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 LE 6.4 for Digi 002, Digi 002 Rack, Mbox, or Digi 001 systems already installed.

• Pro Tools 6.4 Information
• Pro Tools LE 6.4 Download & Details

From the Included Pro Tools LE 6.4cs9 Read Me:

Pro Tools LE 6.4cs9 Update Installer

(Mac OS X 10.3.2 or 10.3.4 Only)

What's Fixed in Pro Tools LE 6.4cs9?

Pro Tools LE 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 can 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 LE 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.

Fixed: On-line records using MTC could result in files being removed from the session after stopping (Item #51422)

• When recording on-line using MTC, the message "Some regions were removed from the timeline or region list because they referred to files which are too short" would appear after stopping, with the new files removed from the session.

Fixes Included from Pro Tools LE 6.4cs6: None

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

Fixes Included from Pro Tools LE 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 LE 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. (DV Toolkit for Pro Tools LE required for Feet+Frames display mode)

Fixes Included from Pro Tools LE 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 LE 6.4cs9?

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

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

* DigiTranslator required
** DV Toolkit for Pro Tools LE required

Important: Pro Tools LE 6.4cs9 is provided as an interim "customer support (CS)" release to address the issues described. While our testing has not shown these changes to introduce other problems, this version has not been fully qualified by Digidesign.

Updating Pro Tools

To update to Pro Tools 6.4cs9:

1. Verify Pro Tools LE 6.4 is installed on your Digi 002, Digi 002 Rack, Mbox, or Digi 001 system.
2. Quit the Pro Tools application if it is open.
3. Locate the Pro Tools LE 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 (6.4cs9)
• DAE (6.4cs9)

Download Instructions — Pro Tools LE 6.4cs9 Update

For best results, use the latest version of Safari or Internet Explorer for Mac OS X. Other browsers may not work properly with this download. This Pro Tools LE 6.4cs9 Update requires a Digi 002, Digi 002 Rack, Mbox, or Digi 001 hardware system with Pro Tools LE version 6.4 software already installed.

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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