[propower]

Hey all,

I know I have posted a lot about running at 96kHz 64Buffer but I am still having some nagging issues. It would be a HUGE help if someone who runs HDN TB and PT11.02 on Mountain Lion (even better if on a very recent Haswell Mac) and some Waves AAX64 - (Gold, Plat, SSL - any of these would work) wouldn't mind doing a couple of tests sessions to compare results.

I know it is a very specific request but I can't seem to make progress comparing with people running cMP, PCIe and internal Harddrives.

Thanks in advance!
The tests will be very straightforward and should not consume much bandwidth... I put down 20 minutes but at my place I get errors very quickly.

If you do give this a go please specify:
Computer, OS rev, ProTools ver., what HD used for audio and how is it hooked up

All at 96kHz, 64 buffer

1) New session, 8 audio tracks, no plugins.
Note PT CPU system usage with Activity monitor (not the ProTools one - the one in Apple Utilities)
- Record all 8 for 1 minute
- Hit undo (CMD Z)
repeat process 10 times or stop if PT CPU system usage magically doubles or triples (again Activity Monitor in Apple Utilities - in my system the ProTools usage will go from some something like 30% to 130% - for no apparent reason - CPU temps go up dramatically for this "phantom" load) .

2) New session - 4 audio tracks
- record anything onto the 4 tracks for 60 seconds (signal generator is fine)
- Put Waves Vcomp on each track (or SSL Channel is good - or CLA compressor also fine)
- loop playback for 10 minutes (adjust some parameters during playback)
- Does it stop pretty quick with -9073 or -9172?
- This is a WAVES specific thing. All AVID plugins are working with no issues here.

Thanks!
-Lee