 Buffers & Ram Question |
 Mon 5 Apr 2004, 16:10
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I've got a G4 with two hard drives, one running OX the other O9. I've got DP 3 on the O9 with 512 or ram. (I think I have twice that ram on OX). I'm also using Waves Gold plugins, and they eat up a ton of memory. On a couple of tunes I keep getting the message to raise the buffer. The DP3 default is 1024 (or something close to that). I had to raise it to 4000ish to play the song without crackles.
My questions: What are the issues of changing the buffer settings up and down for various songs? Is this hard on the drives? Should I be defraging the disk after changing settings? If I increase the ram on O9 will it solve the problem of having to adjust buffer settings? Is there any way to utilize the ram on the OX disk? |
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Mon 12 Apr 2004, 09:30
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No, don't give DP3 more memory.
I don't know how big your project is. But not more than 200 MB for DP should be plenty. In fact the setting can be less than that, if the size of that project isn't big. DP's memory and MAS are different. You set the memory for DP just enough for open the project and do the MIDI. Once you start using audio plug ins, what is left in your computer (DP & OS 9) will be used for that. |
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backshed Buffers & Ram Question Mon 5 Apr 2004, 16:10
PristineRec It sounds like you are using virtual memory or a R... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 18:51 backshed Virtual memory is turned OFF. And I have played ar... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 19:24 PristineRec Then it sounds like you should allocate more memor... Wed 7 Apr 2004, 17:14
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