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[sndchck]

here's my reply to a questioned emailed to me from a user who saw this thread:

I LOVE this setup hugely. As far as the G5 1.6GHz goes, it's pretty powerful especially when you consider that i was running Reason Propellerhead, SampleTank and PT 6.2.2 (with plugins) all at once on the G5 when i only had 256MB of RAM. PT LE requires a min of 384MB RAM and Propellerhead i think is 512MB (not sure).
Yah, i did get the errors once my track counts increased, but since i've added another 512MB RAM (now 768MB) I've noticed a dramatic increase in performance. Also, i have been using the G5's IDE drive which makes it a little slower than assigning all audio tasks to an external firewire drive.

Latency has not been an issue so far. It was a little at first with just 256MB RAM. The reason was because of the low RAM, i couldn't run MIDI and Analogue tracks at the same time without setting my "hardware buffer size" In PT to 1054 bits. I could've just set my MIDI offset to match it but didn't bother as i was just getting familiar with the platform knowing i'd be adding RAM.

As far as anologue tracks being played back i've gone up to 19 with some RTAS and a few MIDI tracks triggering Propellerhead and SampleTank. If i encounter any prob's i usually create an audio file of certain MIDI tracks so that i can close the sample plugin ie SampleTank, Propellerhead.
Once i add another pair of 512MB RAM, this should be less of a problem. Plus i will be getting an external firewire drive soon as the "cherry on top".

Hope that helps. Anymore q's just lemme know. I'll do my best to answer them.

Chow!