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Old 01-19-2010, 11:16 AM
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I've read from Digidesign's General Troubleshooting thread ( http://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=54888 ) that the Airport and the Evergy Saver should always be tunrned off when using Pro Tools. Really? Why exactly? I am curious to know cause I never did this since I am using PT, and 90% of the time I am fine with running my sessions with the all the stuff I want (with drives for audio and etc) Does it mean I could get ever more juice for PT by doing this? It's just that it sounds weird to me that the Airport or the Energy Saver can slow down PT, I can't see why (but again, I am not a programmer or anything! ;-)
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Old 01-19-2010, 12:38 PM
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Think about what Energy Saver is. Anything that (without your control) decides to throttle back the cpu(like right in the middle of a recording) can easily cause the program to choke or crash. 2 things you do NOT want happening while recording. With all due respect(not trying to be a jerk) but, Its so simple to follow the rules, that I just don't understand why people feel the need to "push the envelope". If you don't want to follow the rules, then do it any way you want. Just don't come whining when your session got corrupted or you lost that live recording that was going to pay you a nice check.
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Old 01-19-2010, 12:46 PM
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Ok I see. I was not whinning mate but simply curious to understand the reasons behind this as they only saying to do it but don't really explain why in the General Troubleshooting thread, so I just wanted to know how this REALLY could affect the performances of PT, that's it.
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The effect is called a CRASH!
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Old 01-19-2010, 02:58 PM
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Energy saver makes sense, but Airport doesn't really, other than the fact that using wifi uses (some) CPU power. But then Digi should tell you to disable ALL processes or anything that uses CPU that isn't absolutely necessary.
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I think the airport thing is on the same par with bluetooth and wifi(on a PC). I can't say for sure, but I suspect that it functions in the background and probably tasks the cpu at random times, which could cause a hiccup in the audio processing. Since I work on PC(and don't know if Mac's call for the same tweaks) the guide recommends setting processor scheduling to background services(which I think is where the conflict arises). Any Mac experts have some insight? In review, I understand the curiosity, but never felt the need to dig into the reasons(apologies if I sounded harsh). Any PC users running with the opposite setting for the processor?

BTW, I have a Magic Jack on my office machine for a phone line and it will not allow the computer to go into hibernation. Similar issue? Who knows?
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