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OS X support for Spark 2.82

equill

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With the last update of its Spark audio wave editor before the company abandoned software for dedicated audio hardware development, tc|werke indicated that no higher system than OS X 10.3.2 had been tested with Spark, and even then advised routine use of 10.2.8.

Seemingly that was extremely conservative. I had maintained a CRT iMac Indigo/G3/500MHz/1GB with 10.2.8 for some years on the strength of that recommendation, but switched to a Digital Audio/G4/733MHz/1.5GB last year because of its better graphics, speed and upgrade path. On a whim I installed 10.3.2 last week, then—finding that Spark did not fall in a mute heap—advanced in turn to 10.3.4, 10.3.7 and 10.3.9. Spark continued to be as agile and useful as it was under 10.2.8, and even more so given its fillip of processor and memory. You may also believe that a 20-in ADC Cinema Display is a great improvement over a CRT iMac's 15in.

Others have agreed with me in the past about the utility and appeal of Spark. What's the highest-numbered OS that anyone else has used to support Spark? and with what results?

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CJ_Miller

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My MDD is temporarily offline for repairs, but the highest I have used was 10.4.11. It works great! As I recall, there were only a couple of features which didn't work, and they were ones I never typically used. Maybe the CD burning utility? Anyway it opens, edits, and saves files perfectly well. The FX Machine and Sonic Destructor work fine too. It is my fave stereo editor, with Amadeus being a close second. It's really a shame that TC dropped everything to persue PowerCore exclusively.

There are two patches which I am aware of. The patch you are referring to was an official release for 10.3, and then some of the original coders wrote an unofficial patch for 10.4. They were both hosted on the TC website but I imagine they are long since buried on there. I also have a 2.8 beta they gave me shortly before it went EOL. Never tried the 10.4 patch in 10.5, because I don't run 10.5 yet. I am not expecting them to patch it for intel architectures or 64-bit, so my setup is probably frozen. But I love it.

 
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