Back in the (home) studio...

After a few months taking care of my lovely lady after her surgery and just spending time together. 
 
Friday night I'd noticed that Superior Drummer crashed Pro Tools every time I tried to add it to a session, so I figured maybe it was time to check for updates. The only things I've kept up to date are Logic and Pro Tools. All the rest dated from a year back or so.
 
So while I was at it, I also updated all my IK products. 
 
As a result of the time I spent updating software yesterday afternoon, Superior Drummer now crashes both Logic and Pro Tools and Sampletank crashes Logic and crashes Pro Tools during the initial start up plug-in scan. 
 
The funny thing is that at the end of my evening session, I was going to add an instance of Waves Truverb to my project when I realized that I never got around to installing it after Waves offered it for free last Black Friday.  I hadn't updated my Waves stuff for a year and I was worried that I'd have to jump through hoops and potentially mess up with a working config just to install a freebie. 
 
But last night, I thought I might as well do it. I logged into my account, downloaded the new app and clicked install. Done. And THAT was supposed to be the problematic one...
 
Now comes the fun part - following up on those problems with IK and TT. :/

Merci, John. 
 
As for Apple, indeed, the last few incarnations of OSX and its software often seem to mess more things up than they fix. Things really changed in the last few years - since Jobs passed away. I'm seriously considering reverting to Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro, the OS it came with. It was, and by far, the best OS I've worked with.
 
As for my studio computer, it was a given when I bought it in October 2014 that I wouldn't update anything on it, and wouldn't use it to run software that would require me to upgrade to a new OS. It will only be used to run things that are more or less contemporary to it.
 
So besides Pro Tools and Logic, nothing has been updated, not iTunes, not iThis and iThat, and practically nothing else was even installed on it, besides those few 3rd party plug-ins. There's still almost 900GB free on that 1TB drive.
 
And maybe my problems come from there - I'm still running an "old" OS. But whatever the case, I'm not upgrading that OS - I'd be willing to give up on third party plugs before I do so. Worst case, I'll run them on another machine.

Updates?  Upgrades?