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

[jasonmaass]

Hey i dont know if your processing the plug ins on every track or not, but if you are try setting up aux sends for each plug ins such as reverbs and delays here is how you do it....... I apologize if i am telling you something you already know but create a new aux track. select what plug in you want on the aux track. Assign the aux track INPUT to bus 1 and/or 2. Then go to the sends of each track you want to send to your plug in ie. reverb or delays and select bus 1 and/or 2 , be sure to turn up the send fader that pops up when you assign your sends, and your aux fader. hope this helps

This post has been edited by jasonmaass: Wed 8 Oct 2003, 05:22