To 5.0 Or Not To 5.0?

[Eric Bazilian]

Months gone by and the box is still sitting there unopened. Must admit, I'm somewhat intimidated by the reports of sluggish behavior. My entire MO is based on lightning-speed editing, so the concept of a logjam is, quite frankly, terrifying. I'm running a 9600, 256megs of RAM, a bunch of Glyph drives, two Mix Farm cards, and a vintage d24. I'd go for the G3 upgrade if it would make the difference, but, as MIDI is not a concern at all, is there any reason to even risk the slowdown? Or is this simply paranoia?

I'd be glad to eat the $200 (unless DIGI would reabsorb the unopened package) in order to stay speedy. On the other hand, I'd just as gladly turbocharge my CPU if (aside from the relatively useless MIDI features) it would add anything fun to the party.

Please advise, thank you...

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Eric Bazilian/Dingbat Sound
"Music Is Good"

[Will Russell]

Personally I would do 2 complete backups of my system drive and load 5.0. There are major improvements that you won't want to do without. Worst case, you don't like it and you restore from your backup. No problem!

Go for it. I think you'll love 5.0. Runs glitch free on my beige 300MhzG3 w/256M ram.

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Will Russell
Electric Wilburland Studio
http://www.wilburland.com

[Dead Space]

I am in the same boat Eric. I think I'll be jumping in head first this week.

Will,

As far as backing up the system drive goes, is this something that I could do with Mezzo?

[tld]

I am a relatively new Protools user, and started out using 5.0, so I can't make any comparison to 4.3. I can say however that 5.0 is running just great on my 9600/350 256M Ram on OS 9 (I have no G3 processor upgrade or anything). I am recording to 2 9G Seagate Barracudas and did a test session recording 64 tracks (although they were all recording from the same input source) simultaneously, and it was smooth as silk.

If I use the new edit window mode with the stationary playhead (where the audio scrolls by) I see a slight slowdown of the screen refresh (location counters for example), but I also leave my monitor set to millions of colors.

No complaints here...5.0 rox.

Tom

[COCO]

Will:
Digi reports compatibility probs with Beige G3s and 5.0 with Mix hardware. Do you experience any hangs? This CPU is "semi" approved.

Anybody running 5.0 with QT 2.5?

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-COCO

[meshtheflesh]

Eric,
I am using a similar config. as you (9600/300,mix plus+vintage farm) and it seems to be OK speed wise, a little slower maybe.I do thin though there are some major improvments like the lovely new buttons, and the new trimmer tool. i am a midi user as well as post, and as you know the midi is pretty good now.Also the QT 48k bugfix is good. I'd go for it!