With Apple taking over emagic, i've decided to take the plunge and switch from a pc to a mac.

With PCs, it always made sense to get a system built by audio specialists, but surely this isn't necessary with a Mac?

Does anyone have a standard list of tweaks that I should make with extensions manager to optimise my system, or is it worth paying a premium to get an audio specialist supplier to do it for me?

(I'll be running Logic 5 with a logic controller & a MOTU 2048)

Thanks

Go to Computer Music's webpage, there you'll find an article about making music on laptops which has a list of system extensions you should have on when using Logic Audio. If you first disable extensions advised by the article and only then install Logic, Logic controller and MOTU drivers then you'll automatically have what's needed.

This shouldn't be too hard anyway, if you keep a copy of the original settings to revert to, and of course you can always ask here if you're unsure about which extensions are needed or not... Good luck!

you WILL be richly rewarded!
jaguar, altivec, imagic anyone?
g5 for xmas dinner!
motu, much as i love 'em, are dragging their heels at the moment.
having utilised firewire way before anyone else "got it" they promptly
lost faith in x!
no audio drivers posted on their site for more than 6 months?
a digidesign in the making!
the best programmers will always win this game.
oh yes, don't use extensions manager, use extensions overload 5.9.1
a great improvement on extensions manager.
basically, quicktime, open transport, open gl, and the obvious other stuff should work, if you're booting from a partition that's optimised purely for
music apps...

Theres a lot you can do to optimize a Mac audio system, and you don't need a "specialist" to do it.

1.) Install all of your OMS (or FreeMIDI) and audio card/sequencing software.
2.) Go to extensions manager and make a copy of "Mac OS 9.X Base"
3.) Rename it to whatver you feel like "Spongebob Set" It really doesn't matter
4.) Add the OMS/FreeMIDI extensions and control panels, as well as your audio card and sequencer extensions and control panels.

That'll remove the possability of conflicts between hardware and software.

Get as much ram as you can. Give each software title, as much ram as possible. Will save you from running into memory errors.

Make sure you have the latest drivers for your equipment (ie: midi interfaces, timepieces)...

That's really all you have to do.

Hope it helps!

-Chris-

here are my 2 cents:

Just read my list of tips posted here:
http://www.macmusic.org/agora/forums/index...t=ST&f=1&t=1567

This should surely help you

HTH