 Instrument Count In Pro Tools |
  Tue 10 Mar 2009, 18:31
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How many instrument tracks with plugins does anyone get before having problems? After 3 I get playback hiccups and the the occasional "Lost communication with hardware device." I'm using an iMac 20", 2.2 GHz Intel, 4 GB RAM, 750 GB internal HD, 500 GB external FW 800 external HD for audio files. I've tried all sorts of settings changes with little success. I just upgraded to Pro Tools 8 LE, but it's the same as version 7.4.
Maybe the workflow should be to record a MIDI performance, bounce to audio track, then repeat. Awkward, that.  |
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Wed 11 Mar 2009, 06:17
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Rookie  Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 01-Aug 02 From: Mt. Pleasant - US Member No.: 6,442 |
Set the Hardware Engine to use one processor. For some reason, PT 8 does not play well with two. You can increase the CPU usage to 99% as the other processor can handle all of the OS functions. From there increasing buffer sizes should be all you need to do. We are running many instances of virtual instruments without problems
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tsuliman Instrument Count In Pro Tools Tue 10 Mar 2009, 18:31
fishboisfo My experience has been: How many plug ins ? What... Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:28
tsuliman Changing to one processor worked! I never wou... Wed 11 Mar 2009, 14:40 ghess Citation (tsuliman @ Wed 11 Mar 2009, 08... Thu 12 Mar 2009, 06:30 SonOfHarry QUOTE (tsuliman @ Wed 11 Mar 2009, 06:40)... Thu 23 Apr 2009, 20:50 |
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