Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:51 am
Hello Antoni,
Thanks for the continued interest in upgrading.
[I've merged your most recent two topics on upgrading your systems into this previous topic of yours here, so that the background information is all in one place.]
My personal advice would still be to:
- Buy a v6 upgrade licence.
- Install v6 on your clean macOS installation on your 12-core Mac Pro (along with a compatible audio/MIDI interface, its driver, iLok License Manager, and an iLok dongle, and the driver for the Hauptwerk v4 USB key).
- Use iLok License Manager to activate your v6 licence to the dongle.
- Launch Hauptwerk, select your audio and MIDI devices, then migrate your sample set licences to v6.
- Download and install the v5+ compatible versions of your sample sets.
- Configure things how you want them in Hauptwerk.
- Finally, make a backup, and keep it somewhere safe (e.g. on a USB memory stick).
You wouldn't then be able to use Hauptwerk v4 any more, and you wouldn't be able to use your 2007 Mac Pro for Hauptwerk any more, but a 2007 computer is well beyond its expected life expectancy anyway, so there's little point in keeping it (and almost certainly not if doing so involved spending extra money on licences). If your 12-core Mac Pro does ever go wrong, at that point in time you could buy another identical reconditioned 12-core Mac Pro and swap your hard-drive/SSD into it, or simply re-install things on it, or buy a newer computer and re-install things on it. Worry about it when it happens, since all computer technology becomes obsolete quite quickly.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.