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Re: Help...inefficient EXS host system...

2003-05-07 by Nick Batzdorf

From: Tim Clarke <tim@...>

>Mac dual 450 G4 with 1 gb of memory.  I have an IBM 7200rpm Ultrastar drive
>mounted internally and partitioned into 2 40-gb volumes as a secondary
>internal drive.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd
>
>I have 2 external 120 gb WD caviar 7200 rpm drives mounted in firewire
>enclosures which have all of my EXS intruments and associated audio files,
>with aliases of all this in my Logic Audio folder on my boot drive
>(factory-installed 30-gb Quantum Fireball--not sure what speed it runs at).
>
>Running Logic Audio 6.1 using the "mac" Audio driver, and TDM.  I have an
>old PT 24 system with an extra farm card.
>
>I don't think I'm getting the performance I could.  I get system overload
>messages quite frequently!  Every day, I wonder what I need to do in order
>to get real performance from these incredible software tools--currently
>hampered by lethargic hardware.

How many voices are you getting? Are you streaming them or running 
them from memory?
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

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