What's the latest version of Ardour that works on Intel Macs running OSX v12 (Monterey)?

#1

Have an old (late 2014) Intel Mac Mini which I’ve wiped and am setting up to give to a friend to use for basic recording and simple music production.

However the latest OS I can install on it is Monterey (v10.12) and Ardour reportedly doesn’t work on this, although I haven’t actually tried installing it.

So, I was wondering what’s the most recent version of Ardour I’d be able to run on this, and assuming there’s still a pre-built version of that available for download somewhere, could anyone provide a link? Thanks.

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#2

Either Ardour 8.6 or 8.8 is the last version that will run on macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

Ardour moved on to use modern C++17 standard, which requires macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later. This happened gradually during the 8.6 .. 8.9 release cycle.

I’ll see if I can find an old dmg…

#3

Version 10.12 is macOS Sierra, not Monterey (which is version 12).

According to everymac, late-2014 Mac Mini’s can run Monterey (v12), which means you’re all good!

With Monterey (again, v12) you can indeed run all the latest versions of Ardour (v8.12, or pre-release of v9)! :+1:

I currently run Ardour v8.12/v9 on my even older Mojave OS (macOS 10.14), and it all works great!

-Cheers!
-J

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#4

Indeed. @ciw1973 Please try the 8.12 demo version…

If it that doesn’t run let me know and I’ll send you Ardour 8.6 and 8.8 installers; or maybe even 7.5 (since various 8.x releases have some serious bugs).

#5

Many thanks for the replies.

I’d already upgraded the Mac to Monterey (hence the info in the post title) which is the latest supported version, but clearly had a real brain-fart moment with the version number I put in the actual body of the post.

Will try installing the latest release tomorrow evening, and in the unlikely event I have issues, will report back.

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