Do I need to optimize my Powerbook G4 ???

gauss control · Post by **gauss control** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:05 pm

hello,

i boght a Macintosh Powerbook G4 867, with 750 Mb RAM and it works OK with some aplications....

But when I run Live 4.1 and apply "just an EQThree" in "just ONE track" with "just ONE LOOP"....

The sound STOP a little !

Please tell me I'm doing something wrong...

I thought "MAC"s were better

vince watson · Post by **vince watson** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:36 pm

please tell me your full setup etc....i can tell you the best optimization stuff after that...

whats your ram up to?

are you using firewire m-audio?

Do you regularly repair permissions
?

gauss control · Post by **gauss control** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:47 pm

This is the powerbook:
CPU PowerPC G4 (3.2)
867 Mhz
Cache level 2 - 256 kb
Cache level 3 - 1 Mb

Memory - 768 Mb SDRAM
Bus speed - 133 Mhz

Running Mac OS X 10.3.5
Kernel - Darwin 7.5.0

Disk - 40HD
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I'm newbie with macs... but don't fear them

thanks

vince watson · Post by **vince watson** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:14 am

what soundcard are u using?

also, osx 10.3.6 and 10.3.7 and much much better for audio.....

gauss control · Post by **gauss control** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:32 am

i don't have any sound card yet.. and i would use only 2 controllers (oxigen8 and UC33)

Anyway it's working better now. I'll make a clean install of ALL.

thanks

liquidfx · Post by **liquidfx** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:11 pm

vince watson wrote:what soundcard are u using?

also, osx 10.3.6 and 10.3.7 and much much better for audio.....

why is that (with OSX 10.3.6+ being better)?

is there anything wrong with using the built in powerbook soundcard?

vince watson · Post by **vince watson** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:03 pm

92accordlxtuner wrote:
vince watson wrote:what soundcard are u using?

also, osx 10.3.6 and 10.3.7 and much much better for audio.....
why is that (with OSX 10.3.6+ being better)?

is there anything wrong with using the built in powerbook soundcard?

3.6 and 3.7 addressed some minor issues with coreaudio and also sped up the whole system by quite a bit. Unless you are using firewire m-audio products, then you are going to suffer..

The powerbooks coreaudio is fine to use, but i wouldnt recommend mastering with it..its not got the high end quality thats needed for serious high end audio finalising.....its great for gigs and your home audio system though...

liquidfx · Post by **liquidfx** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:54 am

what about the ibook...one of my clients got a fairly new ibook with 600+ mB ram and we got some hiccups and glitches, even with the buffer set all the way.

how can one optimize an ibook/powerbook for audio (i heard about this from somebody, but i don't see any settings for it)

vince watson · Post by **vince watson** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:24 am

600 aint enough ram for a start.....ableton on macs need minimum 1gb IMO...

if you can afford it max it out ....

there are lots of posts on the forum about maximising your settings....

just spend an hour going through it all and you will find everything you need

liquidfx · Post by **liquidfx** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:18 am

vince watson wrote:600 aint enough ram for a start.....ableton on macs need minimum 1gb IMO...

if you can afford it max it out ....

there are lots of posts on the forum about maximising your settings....

just spend an hour going through it all and you will find everything you need

butwhat about optimizing the OS...how is that possible.

somebody told me i can optimize the settings, but im having a hard time figuring out what to do.

tch · Post by **tch** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:21 am

hi
most of it is written over here.
have fun (after the opti)

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13963

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:35 am

This optimisation business is silly. You don't need to do it, but if you think it's entertaining go ahead...

I use Live on an iBook G3 900 with 384 MB of RAM, and it's good. Only thing that kills it is softsynths and the Live reverb - as you'd expect...

-Paws

vince watson · Post by **vince watson** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:24 am

noisetonepause wrote:This optimisation business is silly. You don't need to do it, but if you think it's entertaining go ahead...

I use Live on an iBook G3 900 with 384 MB of RAM, and it's good. Only thing that kills it is softsynths and the Live reverb - as you'd expect...

-Paws

erm.....your completely wrong on that one im afraid....

Optimizing on macs makes a g4 run as fast as a g5...trust me!

the fact you dont dont want to do it is fine, are you saying all these poeple on here are wrong?

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:34 pm

vince watson wrote:Optimizing on macs makes a g4 run as fast as a g5...trust me!

the fact you dont dont want to do it is fine, are you saying all these poeple on here are wrong?

Yes.

If 'optimisation' is taking stuff out of your /Library and ~/Library that only gets loaded when you need it, yes, I'm saying it's a waste of time.

-Paws

vince watson · Post by **vince watson** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:44 pm

and i take it then you are implying that all these apps use there own parts and they dont share anything in the OS then??

Coreaudio sound familiar?

or do you think ableton use its own ???