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singbetter
post Tue 28 Mar 2006, 17:03
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Hi all, I just bought a Mac Book Pro 1.83GHz and 1.5Gb Ram.

I'm totally new to Mac. would appreciate if anyone could show me what should I do to set up the Mac OS for audio ? (e.g. turning off useless process maybe?) My main use is for live performance.

Thanks!!
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Nonz
post Tue 28 Mar 2006, 18:07
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this article has some really good info. it's mostly written for Jaguar and Panther (OS X) but most of it still pertains to optimizing Tiger.

Electronic Musician: Taming the Big Cats

hope this helps.
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lepetitmartien
post Wed 29 Mar 2006, 01:53
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And there's threads beaten like dead horses around too wink.gif

digest:

- create and use a second admin account and install/work from it
- Add RAM (max if you can, 1GB is the minimum)
- use external disk for audio (better in FW, but USB 2.0 is ok…)
- avoid third party prefpanels
- disable dashboard
- don't rush to update the system, stay on a tried and true OS X version you have no problems with (it'll be your audio apps/plug-ins that will have problems, not the rest usually), wait for compatibility reports.
- Once everything is up and running fine, make a back up clone, so you can install back fast.

I'm sure we can find one or two more things wink.gif


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post Wed 29 Mar 2006, 12:33
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thank you so much, lepetitmartien and Nonz!
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