Digirack002 A Laptop And Dwindling Cpu, Are there any External Processing units Options

[rufusrat]

I have a Ti 15inch Laptop
1GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache
1024MB DDR333 SDRAM
60GB Ultra ATA/100
10.2.6 OS X

I have all sounds and songs saved to an external 200Gig hard drive.

I'm running Protools off my DigidesignRack 002- I have about 6- 8 tracks and a few Plug ins (say 4 to 6; not much in my book) And I'm running out of CPU. I just don't understand how just a few plug ins can run my CPU down to nothing.

I want to know what I can do. Is there any way of getting an external processer to take the load off my computer?

If any one can help I'd appreaciate it greatly - this power outage is really holding me back.

Thank you!
rufus

[rufusrat]

Synthetic, thanks for getting back to me. Yes – you guessed it! I’m using D-verb. It eats all my cpu. I had heard of TC – Works Powercore Firewire plug ins as having a card that
Takes the load off the CPU – but it doesn’t work for RTAS or TDM. Do you know of anything like that for Protools?

I had also heard of partitioning hard drives to make it faster – I guess I should try cutting up that 200Gigs.

It would just be so great to be able to use reverb with out recording it that way; and not having to think about it. I always change my mind on how much of it I want to use in the end.

Oh well!

Thanks

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