Running Out Of Cpu Power, help please! Options

[anakinsrightarm]

hellooo i have a macbook pro with 1ghz ram. i run pro tools LE 7.3 and have had the issue of running out of cpu power. i get the error message "you are running out of CPU power. Remove some RTAS plug ins or increase the cpu usage limit in the playback engine dialog. (-9128)"

i am not running that many tracks (3-4) and only about 2 plug ins and i am still getting the problem.
i also increased the cpu usage limit in the playback engine dialog with no luck.

i thought it had to do with not having an external hard drive, so i picked up a glyph 050 250 gb hd. on other forums they said it didnt have to do with the hard drive, and to come here.

thanks

This post has been edited by anakinsrightarm: Wed 2 Apr 2008, 04:23

[qusp74]

In my previous post I allowed my brain to get muddled in my reply

the dubious statement
'A latency of 256ms or 512ms is recommended. anything below that; eg.128ms or 64ms would require a 'Quality' audio interface rather than the onboard chipset.'

; concerning latencies what I meant to say was that a BUFFER size of 256 or 512 (rather than the faux pa 256ms or 512ms) may be what you need to use for general operation; especially when using power hungry plugins. these settings relate directly to CPU load and latency (measured in microseconds) and the drain on your computers resources is increased further by your relatively low amount of RAM.

once you have rendered the output of the soft synths etc you will be able to drop the buffer to a more responsive level of 128, 64 or even 32 for your final mixdown. the rest of my previous post remains true IMHO

YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING REMOTELY USEFUL WITHOUT UPPING YOUR RAM CONSIDERABLY

Hope this makes more sense and hopefully it will redeem me and my mental faculties somewhat.....

This post has been edited by qusp74: Thu 3 Apr 2008, 07:17