 Garageband Performance Issues With New Macbook?, Newbie needs some help optimizing garageband |
 Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:43
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Hey all! Got a new mac user here with some questions about the CPU hog that is 'Garageband'. Either I've selected some memory heavy track options, recorded something improperly, or have other unknown system issues that I could use some help sorting out.
Hardware: New Macbook with 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB Memory (1067 Mhz DDR3) with about half of the hard drive filled with pictures/music etc. 121G of 256G Software: Gb that came installed on the machine and no other plugins/add ons. Recording: 6 track/2:00 min song, 2 mic tracks (guitar,vocal), 3 Gb instrument tracks (bass and 2 keys), and 1 Drumbeat loop from the Gb loops (effected drumkit 08) all relatively light on effects Issue: "Part of Project was not played" - Too many real instrument tracks to be played in real time. To optimize performance...blah blah blah. I've followed most of their optimizing tips to no avail. I've uploaded a screenprint of garageband, the warning and current CPU usage monitor which does not seem to be maxed... Question: Anything else I should be doing to make this thing work? Is there another program that is not as resource intensive that has similar functionality. I do have Adobe Soundbooth as part of the Adobe Production Premium package but use that mainly for video/photo editing. Thanks in advance for everyone's help!
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Sat 15 Jan 2011, 08:11
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 Rookie  Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 06-Nov 09 From: Pärnu - FI Member No.: 111,338 |
HI !
The problem in not YOu Mac, the problem is You Soundcard that has not enough power to render all the files. I think you try to use the internal "built in" soundcard of your Mac ? Don't. What You need is a good external soundcard. The internal one is good for playing games or listening to music only, not to render effects and multitrack audio. Tommy |
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Sat 15 Jan 2011, 19:00
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: 27-Jan 03 From: Austin - US Member No.: 11,156 |
All good suggestions.
One more thing to check before investing in more hardware is that your hard drive is in good repair (boot from the system DVD and run disk utility to repair the drive) and confirm that you have at least 10% of your hard drive space free (20% if possible) to ensure an adequate swap file for optimal memory availability. best of luck! peace. -------------------- |
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nebdrof Garageband Performance Issues With New Macbook? Thu 13 Jan 2011, 18:43
houstonmusic that's certainly not too much for your machine... Sat 15 Jan 2011, 17:42 nebdrof All great suggestions, thanks.
Houstonmusic, I ... Sat 15 Jan 2011, 19:46 manchoa QUOTE (nebdrof @ Sat 15 Jan 2011, 20:46) ... Mon 17 Jan 2011, 07:36
deaconblue QUOTE (nebdrof @ Sat 15 Jan 2011, 13:46) ... Mon 17 Jan 2011, 14:01 kayj_prod There seems to be a bit of confusion here over the... Tue 18 Jan 2011, 10:24 manchoa QUOTE (kayj_prod @ Tue 18 Jan 2011, 11:24... Tue 18 Jan 2011, 17:24 manchoa QUOTE (houstonmusic @ Sat 15 Jan 2011, 18... Sat 15 Jan 2011, 19:47 kayj_prod The M-16 you mention is a reasonable example of a ... Wed 19 Jan 2011, 08:32 gdoubleyou 2GB RAM is barely enough to run the OS, max out yo... Wed 26 Jan 2011, 15:37 manchoa Emm -
OSX 10.5 needs 256 mb memory and what virt... Wed 26 Jan 2011, 16:53 gdoubleyou QUOTE (manchoa @ Wed 26 Jan 2011, 07:53) ... Thu 27 Jan 2011, 02:52 manchoa Yes, but in this case the "bottleneck" i... Thu 27 Jan 2011, 08:12 |
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