hey guys it's lance at mac sound solutions and i just thought i'd give you a little
update i have installed martin lowe's newest open core package 0.7.5 it's out of beta and it's
running perfectly well i have big sur installed on my nvme and open core is installed on my nvme
i have a disk with monterey installed and i have windows 10 installed so on my big
sur drive i updated that to 11.6.1 that has been running fine it had a bunch of security updates
i've seen other people who said they have problems with it i have absolutely no problems with it as
far as monterey goes if you have the original wi-fi and bluetooth cards in your mac pro they
are not going to work you're going to have to upgrade to a newer bluetooth 4.0 slash wi-fi
card which you can get on ebay i'm going to look into it i'm not sure i'm going to bother with it
you know there aren't that many things in monterrey that make me want to leap from big sur
big sur is working very smoothly and i use pro tools pro tools isn't even authorized to work
with monterrey yet so i'm not going to just jump to monterey but uh i did test it out and one thing
that happened to me while i was in monterey is it updated my icloud photos app library and because
of that i could no longer open it in big sur which is my main drive so i'm now back to normal with
that i can't remember if i opened the photos app while i was in monterey i might have and that of
course updated the library the same thing can happen with all your final cut pro libraries so
you have to be careful if you want to go back you might not be able to if you let it update all your
libraries you need to back up those libraries if you want to go back and forth or you need to just
not run final cut on one of those libraries in monterrey if you're still mainly using big sur
the cool thing about monterey is it'll let you edit this type of video i'm shooting this in
cinematic mode and you can then go in and adjust the f-stop you know the blur effect after the fact
in final cut pro you cannot do that in big sur it has to be in monterey so that's one thing you're
able to do in monterey that you can't do in big sur but you know i have one bluetooth device which
is just my trackpad so you have to upgrade your bluetooth wi-fi card in order to use bluetooth
and or wi-fi so it's something that totally keep in mind if you're thinking about moving a monterey
and you use wi-fi all the time you obviously will have to update that card now there's other things
you need to know that i'm going to put on the screen and we'll go over but basically you know
in big sur i could just say okay update to 11.6.1 from 11.6 in the apple software updater without
having to change the config playlist in open core but when you go to monterey there's two ways to go
one is you have to set the vm flags and i'm going to go over this because i don't remember it all
in my head but you have to go in edit the config playlist before you do the install otherwise you
could get stuck in a boot loop especially if you want to go back to an older system i interrupt
this news bulletin to just say that without martin lowe's open core package and synchrotex genius
which has also been incorporated into the package we would not be able to be running these modern
os's on our mac pro five ones i do not take any credit for any of this i am just a user and these
guys have helped me keep current with the latest mac os updates and i just want to thank them and
the rest of this video is sort of how to do this how to get up to date and things to look out for
thanks for watching and now we turn back to your regularly scheduled program okay so this first
version i'm going to show you is how to modify the config playlist before installing monterey giving
you the ability to still boot into older versions of mac os so we launched the clover configurator
and martin's open core package and then we mount our partition that has open core installed on it
type in your user administrative password and then you open your efi which is now mounted on your
desktop you go to the efi folder and you open the open core folder for some reason when i do this
all the folders want to open up i don't know why that is it didn't use to do that
anyway go to the bottom there config playlist and open that up and then you want to search
cpuid one mask with a capital c and a capital m and here i am going down there changing that a to
a c has to be exactly the same as two lines above it so just make sure you replace the a with a c
and then hit save make sure you save okay and then we're going to turn the sm bio spoofing off
as well and the reason you have to do this if you're running mojave and you go install monterey
and then you try and boot back into mojave if you don't set this to false while you're doing
the install you will get stuck in a boot loop and not be able to get back into your mojave
drive without having to boot in recovery mode and possibly reinstalling it etc so i just changed
true to false and hit save again so again make sure you save the config playlist
and then reboot your computer and now you can safely install monterey
okay so now that you've successfully installed monterrey what we want to do is mount the efi
open the open core folder and we want to replace the config playlist because we want to revert it
back to its original state before we modified it so you go to the download folder open the 0.7.5
and the efi folder in there the open core folder and now we're going to copy over the
config playlist we're going to hit replace so it's basically reverting it back to its original state
before we modified it the modifications are only to do the install and then you want to go back
to the regular config playlist and the easiest way instead of going in there and researching
cpu and one mask etc is to just copy and replace with martin's original config playlist and this
will get your mac pro back to its full potential with hardware acceleration in turbo boost
so one thing you want to be sure is not to have automatically keep my mac up to date turned on
you do not want your mac auto updating to a new os especially in this open core world we live
in and i highly suggest don't upgrade until you go to the facebook open core group page
and make sure that people are saying it's cool to update there might be a new version of open
core there might be new bugs in the latest release so as we know it's getting trickier and trickier
to keep our mac pros up to date if you are only going to run monterrey there's another way to set
some things in the open core of config playlists okay so once you have monterey installed and you
have decided i am never going back to any old operating systems like mojave mountain lion
whatever you're never going to go back in time you're going to stick with monterey
you can do this little mod and basically you go to update in vram and you set
false to true and then you'll go down and go to secure boot model and you'll set disabled
to default and then hit save and reboot and now you'll be able to update
to whatever new version of monterey comes around the corner but again i would not do this i think
for most people they will want to go back to their old operating systems you can always go back and
change this and and then set the vm flags again and be able to go back i guess but i would think
it's safer to stay with the vm flag vmm flag model of doing this so that your computer won't auto
update and you won't just mistakenly hit click and update by mistake okay that does it for this
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