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Presonus FireBox Review

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i think u will be OK with an 800 MHz G4. Dont expect to be able to do loads of processing while you are using all the Firebox's channels, but it does not take that much more processing power than built in.

The CPU spikes can sometimes cause problems - I think. Its hard to tell. They seem to cause occasional clicks/pops, but it is tough to correlate them to the pops. However, these are reduced to practically none for me by renicing the process i want to run audio, Like Max/MSP, and reducing priority for the Dock. See this which i wrote in another thread:

For performances - yes i was getting lots of clicks in MaxMSP - but these were dramatically reduced when i fired up Process Wizard (great little menu extra) and niced (increased the priority of) MaxMSP all the way and decreased that of the Dock to rock-bottom. If i do this every time i perform with the firebox, it works wonders. Max is therefore more important to the machine than the CPU spikes the firebox causes. Logic does not seem to have to be told that it is most important - i think it acts the same either way, but i have not experimented that much with nicing logic, as realitme performance is not quite as critical there.

MaxMSP 4.5 (which i dont have yet) has some controls for priority. I dont know if these apply to audio, but they might o something similar.

So if you get pops and clicks, download process wizard and try increasing the priority of the app(s) u want to work with.