Hello my question it’s out of fashion but I need some help. I was working very well with Nuendo 4.3 and Macos Mavericks 10.9.5, but now I have to change macos system due to a change of mixer, I’m trying a Souncraft note pad 12fx that works throught usb with my macbook retina, the Soundcraft doesn’t work with Mavericks. Here comes the problem, Nuendo 4.3 mounts perfec in Yosemites except the vumeters did’t show activity and the usb audio don’t come out. The audio throught my macbook speakers sound and also the vumeters, but when I change to Soundcraft usb nothing comes out, Nuendo looks perfect even you can load effects and do everything. I’ve tried many many things, even I install the Yamaha Steinberg usb driver, but no luck. Here come my asking, have I change something in set up of Macos or Nuendo (I have installed the Soundcraft app), should I go to a smaller but superior version of Cubase (elements or whatever), must I change of sequencer. I’m retired and little money, my project is simple, gather the music I have done (been a proffesional many years) and maybe write some ideas I have now, mostly guitar and simple keyboards lines. Any help will be very welcome thanks for reading.
The short answer is: Yosemite is an 11 year old MacOS and barely anything is compatible with it these days. I assume that applies to that SoundCraft driver as well. You could always try upgrading to El Capitan, and then Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave… etc just to see if it solves the problem. But the higher you go, the more likely that your old Nuendo version won’t work either.
The beauty of Apple’s capitalism right there!
Anyway, what I’d personally recommend is to upgrade to the latest MacOS that your mac supports (Should be either Catalina or Big Sur if you have an MBP Retina), and then upgrade your Nuendo, or go with Cubase if that covers your needs.
The problem is that Nuendo 4.3 is unsuported, I wrote to support to see if they could help, lets say that I am with steinberg from te times of Atari, when the mails where hand woten and Karl steinberg in person told to go for Mac instead PC when Atari broke down. Well the support team told than there is not anymore Elicenser from 20 of 25 and the support before Cubase 13 has been discontinued. I rememeber the times of :“Made by musicians for musicians” was the motto in the begining in this company but time has passed, I feel left behind, I just wanted to know if anyone has a similar problem, I know there’s probably a solution, change sequencer in the last, but after so many years makes me lazy. Thanks for reading and answering
I mean it’s not that illogical after all. Maintaining old software and licensing systems requires resources that are better spent on improving current software instead. If you’re fine with staying on old hardware and software and not ever connect your Mac to the internet and it works fine, you’re free to do so. But as soon as you want to install newer stuff on your machine running a decade old OS, you’re likely to run into problems. Good luck with your decision!
Looks like it may not be fully compatible, as it only went to Mac OSX 10.6, while Yosemite is 10.10.
Looks like Nuendo 6.5.40 is compatible with Yosemite. Not sure how you could get a license upgrade from 4 to 6 in 2025.
Well, there’s no update for older versions, I guess that’s Yamaha’s line, suport line is with †he Visa. Anyway I’ll find something and I will tell you
If you search around, maybe someone out there sells a version 5 or 6. The issue would be upgrading the license, which is not going to be easy / possible. Unless a seller has the license and sells it to you as well.
Well version 5 and 6 are en the steinberg’s web, if I buy something has to be with the license, I will try thanks for answering
Best of luck!!!