Tibook Usergroup

Geraldo · Post by **Geraldo** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 5:50 pm

Hi everyone.
I have not heard back from the Administrator yet (hellooooooo) but the interest from everyone seems substantial.
Format,
I bought my Titanium for reliability and compatibility. Not speed, although it is roughly equivalent to my 1ghz PIII in performance. Although I have logged some concerns on this forum about OSX issues, which is after all a new OS, it gives me very little trouble in OS 9.2. More importantly, everything works as advertized with my MOTU 828. To this day I still have problems with my PC and the Maudio sound card I installed. I have had to do numerous clean installs of Windows because PCs have so many formats and standards. Go to www.unicornation.com and read some of the numerous hardware/driver conflicts PC users have there. Or Sonikmatter.com or Cubase.net. Its not that Macs don't have problems also, its that they have a smaller set of possible things that can go wrong. Since I have been using Live in OS 9.2 I have not really had any problems (oops, hope I have not jinxed myself) and my 828 firewire interface works as promised. After struggling with my PC/ Maudio card for so long, the Titanium's reliability more than makes up for any speed deficit. I scoured the message boards and came to the conclusion that the Mac would be less trouble and so far, I have been right.
Having said that, Toshiba makes a good Laptop also

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Geraldo

alain8 · Post by **alain8** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 1:39 am

I didn't post anything on the forum to avoid creating a panic but it would be useful to know if that freezing problem is really linked exclusively to the new
generation of Mac. I am not sure, the problem could be in the 1.5 version.
I was exchanging with Geraldo about the freezing problem with Live 1.5.1 (he has the same). I have a Ti800 and Live stops and freeze the computer. This can happen after 5, 15, 60, 800, 1600 minutes. I did a lot of tests with OS9 and OSX.
I am in contact with Alex since the beginning of June about his problem.

Another problem I have since the first version of Live and on all the machines I used is dropouts. With loops that don't have 16th notes in there, I get a dropout the second time it plays, on the fourt beat of the first measure. I found that, by reajusting the Transient value to 1/8 (instead of 1/16) corrects
this. So I a Save in the Sample Settings to avoid that problem in a subsequent use. What's weird is, loops that were alright 6 months ago (at 1/16) suddenly began to make dropouts at this same place. So I had to reajust the transients again.

mememachine · Post by **mememachine** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 8:29 am

I'd certainly be interested in joining a tiBook list. I have a 400Mhz (don't laugh) original model with tiny 10GB HD and a meagre 384MB RAM, running OS X, Live 1.5.1 and Reason 2. Despite being woefully underpowered, I haven't had any major problems yet. Mind you, haven't been taxing it much...

I would like to know about how to eg prelisten to clips, what MIDI interfaces work, etc.

FWIW the Oxygen 8 keyboard works fine with Live (and Reason) in OS X...

Anyway, my tiBook may be old and slow, but I still love it, and besides, it was FREE. Bwah hah!

Gotta get a new one with DV out for my aspiring VJ career, however.
(check out www.squaresquare.com for example of very cool VJ stuff using two powerbooks and FCP3!)

Stefan Haller · Post by **Stefan Haller** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 10:40 am

I created the TiBook usergroup, moderated by Geraldo, as requested. Anyone who is interested can join.

BTW, sending private messages to the Admin user is not a very good idea; we use that user only for occasional forum maintenance, we don't read his messages regularly. Please send mail to [email protected] instead.

maarthel · Post by **maarthel** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 12:44 pm

Ok that's great, but where can I find the usergroup?

Maarten

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 1:05 pm

maartel,

top of page, usergoups

....but.. . is pressing the subscribe button enough? Will one get email notification?

FORMAT

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:35 pm

Thanks Stefan!
I'm in my Unix class right now. When I get home this afternoon I will check out what needs to be done to get the Tibook Usergroup going from my end.
Thanks everyone,
Geraldo

tjwett · Post by **tjwett** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 9:29 pm

It's very simple. Just click the Usergroups button up top. Then Click the view Information button. Press Join. That's it. It says my membership is now pending. I guess the moderator has to approve members. This should be great. It will be nice to have a place to go directly with our Ti issues rather than sifting thru the whole forum.

maarthel · Post by **maarthel** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 9:32 pm

I've found it, my membership is pending too. We'll meet again!

Maarten

Geraldo · Post by **Geraldo** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 10:12 pm

Hello again,
I have added members :
FORMAT
jdg
lasers, and their beams
maarthel
mememachine
neepawa
os
Stefan Haller
The Kooky Scientist
tjwett

Geraldo

Geraldo · Post by **Geraldo** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 3:07 pm

I have added the following members:

modwheelmood
SongCarver
Takeishi

Geraldo

Geraldo · Post by **Geraldo** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:20 pm

And:
Dirtystudios
nopm

jdg · Post by **jdg** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:30 pm

i see the group but what do you do? just send personal messages? or is there sub forum somewhere?

Geraldo · Post by **Geraldo** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:44 pm

Hi everyone,
I suspect we are missing some important features for the Tibook usergroup. So far we can only email or send a private message to individuals (I could do that without a usergroup). I have been informed that the individual responsible for maintaining the forums is on vacation so hopefully he can shed a little more light on the subject when he gets back. The other alternative would be a Tibook forum which may not be justified.
In the meantime I will continue to add members as they sign up. Maybe if enough people sign up a Tibook forum could look more feasible...But let's wait and see if the Usergroup will in fact meet our needs?
Geraldo

tjwett · Post by **tjwett** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 3:42 am

i was getting curious too so i read the info FAQ about the UserGroups. It says that the UserGroups are a place to group users! I shit you not. is that funny or what? well maybe it's not what we thought it would be. if it doesn't work out maybe we could setup a php forum similar to this somewhere else on the web. maybe osxaudio.com would host it? oh well, wait and see i guess.

Tibook Usergroup

Geraldo...