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 Sat 28 Jan 2006, 06:49
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i have a dual 1.8 g5 tower with 3 gigs of ram running mac os 10.3.9. im currently recording/producing an album and a soundtrack for an indie film. i recently bought an edirol fa-101 so i'd have a high quality recording interface. everything was working pretty well for a little while. now, whenever my edirol is on it eats at my reason cpu meter. i watch the meter as im in reasons soun preferences. when i click back on my internal audio (default) as the main out put my reason cpu usage bar drops to nothing, like it always used to. right when i click my edirol back on as the main out, it jumps more then 5 bars and clocks out on songs that used to be a breeze. reasons stops and tells me i have too slow of a computer, my eye twitches and i lose more hair. also, all the files i was working on with revision cause i needed something with a video track that has rewire (dont really like logic, love ableton live) while working on soundtracks no longer play properly. everything now plays in a highter pitch, but when i close both programs and open the original reason file its all ok and plays how it should. im really trying to figure out whether its my os (which i just recently re-installed), my computer (mayber theres something bad goin on under the hood), etc. i really have no clue. all i know is that ive invested over 7 grand in a computer, sound system, etc that is just plain not working. anyone? anything?
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 Sun 29 Jan 2006, 05:33
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yeah - check the sample rate - my firebox, which also uses apple's OS firewire interface drivers, will eat my powerbook CPU for lunch if set to 88 or 96k!
Also a higher bitrate interface with more I/O should draw a little more CPU power for just its operation. But only a little. Something that I find with my Firebox is that certain apps like MaxMSP like to be re-niced (I use process wizard) to top priority - that makes them behave better when using the firebox - less clicks and pops. Best of luck. -------------------- -Arvid •• Squish the Squid Productions, Modest Machine
•• digitally augmented trumpet, TOOB, flugelhorn, cracklebox, percussicube, no-input-mixers and Macbook Pro, 2.4 GHz 15", MacOS 10.5, MOTU Ultralite, Logic Studio 9, MaxMSP 5, JackOSX •• •• Electronic-experimental, jazz, digital instrument design, electronics, unique software and performance.•• |
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red_books If You Can Answer This, Then You Are The Audio Gur Sat 28 Jan 2006, 06:49
lancet use the Audio midi set up to verify that both the ... Sat 28 Jan 2006, 14:59 lepetitmartien Mhmmm we should look deeper to see exactly who is ... Sun 29 Jan 2006, 04:45 lepetitmartien For the innocent: re-nice is to change the priorit... Sun 29 Jan 2006, 08:41 red_books thanks a lot guys. i read the info you posted the... Sun 29 Jan 2006, 22:46 lepetitmartien If you really want to eat up you hard drive even m... Mon 30 Jan 2006, 01:29 Hugo Cole Hi guys
This discussion brings me back to a quest... Wed 1 Feb 2006, 02:16
arvidtp yeah - the newest version of the FBox Contrl (for ... Wed 1 Feb 2006, 03:50 |
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