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Old 05-21-2005, 01:45 PM
Espionage1979 Espionage1979 is offline
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Default assign more power to PT with a dual hard drive?

I'm running PT LE 6.7 on a G5 with a dual 2.5 gig hard drive with OSX 10.3.8. I've got the CPU usage configured to 99% but sometimes I still cant bounce a song due to insuffecient CPU power. I'm obviously using a lot of tracks and plug ins, and I dont want to delete tracks or remove plug ins. Is there a way to use OSX to assign a small percentage of my second hard drive's power to pro tools to give me that extra boost I need to allow me to do my bounce?
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Old 05-21-2005, 02:05 PM
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Default Re: assign more power to PT with a dual hard drive?

It has nothing to do with power from hard disks.
Plugins are simply very CPU intensive and sometimes we have to cheat a little.

First, if your CPU looks okay most of the time but seems to go into run-away mode, you have a D-Verb somewhere without first dithering the incoming signal to D-Verb. Always put a 16bit dither or power dither above D-Verb. This is a known issue.

The way we cheat is to either use Audio Suite plugins to process some plugins, or we record a treated track so you can disable a tracks with plugins. If you are using a lot of MIDI, these probably need to printed to an audio track. Also disable (not simply bypass) meters and other non-processing plugins.

Also make sure your bounced file is going to your audio drive (where your session should be) otherwise you are writig the bounce file to the OS disk, and that too is a nono.
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