Create dedicated "Live" user acct. on my Powerbook

rbro · Post by **rbro** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:36 pm

I was wondering if it makes sense to create a brand new user account on my Powerbook dedicated to and optimized for digital recording in Live. I just figured there's so much stuff I use my PB for (running my business, internet stuff etc.), that there's probably all kinds of superfluous stuff that gets loaded at startup that just eats away at cpu cycles and RAM that I don't need when I am recording music. Does anyone else have a setup like this? I have a PB G4, 1.25 GHZ with 1GB of RAM.

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:00 pm

I've never bothered.

I've always figured that the possible headaches of dealing with multiple accounts outweighs any small benifits you'd get from it.

just my opinion though.

.lm.

ultrasource · Post by **ultrasource** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:03 pm

As per my signature, I've got a particulary slow system that I've tried to remedy using every possible OS X optimization technique in a specific music user account. I battled for a couple of days tweaking everything I could based on numerous web searches.
In the end, the only thing that seemed to matter was turning off airport. I would suggest saving your time.

John Sweet · Post by **John Sweet** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:40 pm

You may also run into permission conflicts if you want to play a song you use in Live in the iTunes of yr existing user account, etc.
I tried to create a separate user on a Final Cut system I was sharing with a really sloppy editor and it was a nightmare. Little annoying issues kept popping up no matter how hard we tried to streamline/optimize permissions & sharing.

Obineg · Post by **Obineg** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:44 pm

I did this once , and it was mostly a bother more than a benefit.

rbro · Post by **rbro** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:21 am

Wow. I guess NOBODY thinks this is a particularly good idea and here I thought I was being clever...oh well.....it sounded like a good idea.....thanks for ths input

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:32 am

However on Windows..... Just for those searching.....

You can setup a separate Hardware profile that has none of the extra
services starting, no TCP/IP, no mail, no security, no whatever. This
displays as you boot and before any windows drivers load.

Then you can setup a separate User profile with different set of startup
programs and the like so as to save memory by not having extra tasktray
stuff starting.

-Ben

Create dedicated "Live" user acct. on my Powerbook

Create dedicated "Live" user acct. on my Powerbook?