 Mbox Performance Issues? |
 Sat 19 Jun 2004, 20:33
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 27-Apr 03 From: Worthington - US Member No.: 16,835  |
i have been using my mbox/ibook g4 800 for about five mos. with no problems up until about a week ago, i started getting a message saying cpu usage is holding off usb audio, increase h/w buffer or remove plug-ins. i get this when my h/w buffer is already as high as it can go, and i'm only running like four tracks with no plug-ins at all. how could this be? i'm running osx 10.3/pt le 6.2.2
i'm not using an external hard drive, could this be part of the problem? thanx |
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Mon 28 Jun 2004, 01:33
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 25-Jan 04 From: Corvallis - US Member No.: 34,056 |
What is the speed of your current hard drive? My understanding is that Pro Tools LE recommends a hard drive speed of 7200+ rpm with a seek time of 10 ms or less. When I purchased the MBox it was strongly recommended that I purchase an external firewire Glyph drive (which are spendy $$) I was using the MBox on my 12" 1ghz powerbook, which has a 4200 rpm hard disk, and was getting a similar error when recording only 2 live tracks. I debated getting an external hard drive but ended up scrapping the MBox in favor of the MOTU 828II. If you end up buying an external firewire hard drive please let me know how it works out for you. Good Luck!
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meadows.83 Mbox Performance Issues? Sat 19 Jun 2004, 20:33
schoppito It´s not possible to do any serious audio work on ... Mon 28 Jun 2004, 10:01 smokinshaman Schoppito,
Please define "serious" audio... Mon 28 Jun 2004, 16:25 schoppito Yes Shaman you´re right. Seriousness is relative.... Mon 28 Jun 2004, 18:22 papisax Dear Forum,
I have a Powerbook G4 800 with a L3 c... Sun 4 Jul 2004, 17:06 eskiemo1127 I have a new powerbook G4 and protools LE and I ha... Tue 27 Jul 2004, 23:30 natobasso I run Pro Tools LE/Mbox on my iMac G4 800Mhz and a... Thu 6 Jan 2005, 19:41
gdoubleyou For the BEST performance, an external 7200rpm fire... Thu 6 Jan 2005, 22:03 |
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