Audition CS6 No Longer Launches on High Sierra 10.13.16

[jeffreyj28725521]

I am usingAudition CS6 which is  on my MacBook Pro / 13 Inch Mid-2012/ High Sierra 10.13.16.  The program stopped launching a week ago.  I can only launch Au CS6 when in Safe Mode.  Adobe Customer Support will not provide support and sent me to this forum. Crash report is below... I hope someone can help me as I make my living from using Audition.  (I do remember running an Apple Security Update a day or two before, if that helps...)

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

THANK YOU in advance for your help! 

[jeffreyj28725521]

Here is a more detailed report:

Process: Adobe Audition CS6 [15136]
Path: /Applications/Adobe Audition CS6/Adobe Audition CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Audition CS6
Identifier: com.adobe.Audition.5.0
Version: 5.0x708 (5.0)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Adobe Audition CS6 [15136]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2020-06-17 14:36:52.327 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G13035)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: C6A8FCF9-9011-41FE-401F-FBD9DA7E6AAA

Sleep/Wake UUID: 25ADE75E-2FEC-428F-8D36-93E11D8F1E96

Time Awake Since Boot: 27000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 10000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
terminating with uncaught exception of type std::bad_alloc: std::bad_alloc
abort() called

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

The Apple 'security update' is almost certainly what has stuffed you, yes. Despite what they claimed, Apple appear to be making it harder and harder for anything 32-bit to run at all, even on the OS's that it's supposed to, it would appear. I'm amazed that it opens at all in safe mode, quite frankly.

One of the devs did a little research into the situation specifically with High Sierra last month. The gist of the reply he got goes like this:

"Apple released updates to OS and software which replaced 32-bit frameworks with 64-bit only.  The MobileDevice.Framework OS package, unfortunately, is tied directly to the CoreAudio frameworks, which means 32-bit applications which need access to the audio system will no longer work. 

I don't think Apple is going to fix this, and there's nothing Adobe can do since we never made a 64-bit version of CS6."

If you want to take this up with anybody, it should be with Apple - fair and square.

[jeffreyj28725521]

Dear Steve_G,

THANK YOU for your response. I will take your comment to heart. I had a feeling the failure was associaed with a recent update on my OS ... is there ANY other way to workaround this issue as with the COVID-19 layoffs/furloughs, I am unable to subscribe to monthly Audition payments for a 64-bit version. Thanks again for your insights.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

There is a rumour - unconfirmed - that if you install Parallels Desktop on Catalina (assuming that you can run Catalina on your machine, that is), you can get 32-bit software to run on it. Whether you would get audio out by doing that is another matter altogether, though - I don't know whether that would translate or not.

Apple really don't treat their customers very well. They appear to have renaged on what they've said will be possible with different OS versions, and that's why I'm suggesting that you have a go at them, and find out whether they are prepared to release a patch that fixes CoreAudio.