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12/05/2007, 5:50pm, EST

Wednesday, December 5th

Line6 chooses to not support Leopard

Line6, developers of popular guitar modeling software for Mac OS X, has stated in a forum post that the company has decided not to support Leopard at this time. In response to a reader who wrote: "I currently own an M-Audio Ozone USB midi keyboard and audio interface. Was a great unit until I upgraded to Leopard. M-Audio does not have drivers available yet. Is the KB37 working on Leopard? I'm contemplating either trying the KB37 or downgrading my system back to Tiger. Any insight or advice?," a technical support representative responded: "We do offer drivers and Gearbox for Leopard on our website for download as Public Beta. So far everything has worked fine with our test machines here however, we have decided not to officially support Leopard at this time."

Apparently though most of the drivers and other software should work properly with Mac OS X, the company has decided not to offer technical support assistance for Mac OS X 10.5. Line6's GearBox is a graphical guitar tone interface and sound engine for the TonePort UX-1, UX-2, KB37, and GuitarPort.


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beeble
No News here
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12/05, 7:49pm, EST
No support for beta software. Where's the news? The headline implies that the company has dropped the Mac Platform. They've got beta software which isn't supported because it's beta. This tells me that they are committed to the platform and working hard to deliver a new product.

This kind of BS that comes out of MacNN is just getting ridiculous. If their intent isn't to mislead then they should learn the language. But I'm not at all convinced that this is the case.
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Athens
no News Here
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12/05, 11:51pm, EST
I have to agree with beeble, this is pretty pathetic reporting, misleading headline.
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horvatic
If no support for leopard
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12/06, 2:46am, EST
If there is not going to be any support for Leopard then I'm canceling my account with Line6 tomorrow.
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ericdano
No surprise
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12/06, 3:07am, EST
Avid/Digidesign is ALWAYS behind in updating its products. It just recently got most of its drivers for Vista up. VISTA. Released almost a year ago.

Protools probably won't be running on 10.5 anytime soon, at least not til next year I'd imagine. Probably Feb 08 I think would be the soonest.

Avid/Digidesign/M-Audio (all the same company) have to upgrade their high end stuff and new stuff to work with 10.5. As for the low end stuff.....I trust they will get drivers working for it soon. My M-Audio 4096 card has survived 3 OS updates, with M-Audio lagging in the driver department.....but they did come through eventually.
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leamanc
No technical support
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12/06, 8:03am, EST
But they have a version that runs "fine" under Leopard. Nice attention-grabbing headline.
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mmirage
Going to dump MacNN soon
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12/06, 8:51am, EST
I've been reading MacNN for years on a daily basis, but I'm seriously considering just dropping it. These kind of headlines are starting to really get on my nerves.

MacNN staff? Yo, anybody reading this? You are going to start loosing your loyal readership with this garbage!
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UberFu
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12/06, 8:53am, EST
MacNN is rather misleading and inaccurate as usual_
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ClevelandAdv
Clicks, clicks, clicks
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12/06, 9:16am, EST
As a web marketer, I understand it's all about the clicks. Baiting loyal mac fans by telling of loss of mac support of any product, is guarenteed to generate clicks. It is, however, sensationalistic. Welcome to tabloid journalism.
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