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Fine tuning my Ultimate rig. Little help, please.
Coming from a rock solid (for the most part) PT 10 HD rig on Snow Leopard, so far I am not impressed with how finicky Ultimate is. Sometimes it's just a little laggy feeling, like my cursor isn't keeping up with my mouse. Other times it's 9093 errors with an embarrassingly small amount of plugins in place.
Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 12 core SSD system drive 7200 1tb session drives HD Native card HD IO Dual Slate Raven, but half the time we don't even have the Raven software running when this is happening What is the ideal way to set up recording playback engine vs mixing engine? None of the tricks I used to use for 10 seem to work. |
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Re: Fine tuning my Ultimate rig. Little help, please.
Ultimate and even later versions of OSX run quite a bit differently to HD10 and Snow Leopard. What versions are you running now? And how much ram does your system have? Upping the ram to 64gig in my old 5,1 Mac Pro made a huge difference in response and snappiness.
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Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3. OSX 13.6.5. Win 10. HD Native. Lynx AES16e. Lynx Aurora 16. i9-13900KF. ASRock Z690 Steel Legend. 64GB Ram. AMD Vega 64. BM Decklink. Dolby Atmos Renderer 5.2. Trinnov D-Mon. D-Command. Last edited by LDS; 10-23-2019 at 04:14 PM. |
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Re: Fine tuning my Ultimate rig. Little help, please.
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I don't do any recording on this system but I always max out the hardware buffer to 1024. The other tip is to use the Disk Playback Cache Size as intended. Max sure you have plenty of physical RAM and I set the Cache Size at 10GB. It should be reading in the green in the System Usage window after one pass through the session. The screenshot I have attached is a moderately sized session playing back and the Mac Pro is barely registering on the CPU and Disk meters.
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offthewallproductions Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 Ghz 12 core, Open Core 0.9.8, Radeon RX580 GPU, GC-TITAN RIDGE TB3 PCIe card, M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive on PCIe card, 48GB RAM, macOS 12.7.4 Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3.1/HD Driver 2023.3 HDX, UA Octo PCIe card in external TB3 chassis, MTRX Studio I/O, C|24 control surface. Genelec 1031AP/7070A 5.1 monitoring. |
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Re: Fine tuning my Ultimate rig. Little help, please.
I recently discovered this video, and it's helped me understand some of my issues. Similar machine to you, but likely not the same
CPU vs Real-Time Performance in DAWs |
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Re: Fine tuning my Ultimate rig. Little help, please.
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Video card? If you're running Mojave you need a Metal compatible card and the stock card in a 5,1 doesn't support Metal. How much ram? Any wireless other than mouse/keyboard? Is your system ssd on a pcie card or in one of the drive bays? There's only one buffer to set in PT now unlike in PT 10 - the record buffer. |
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offthewallproductions Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 Ghz 12 core, Open Core 0.9.8, Radeon RX580 GPU, GC-TITAN RIDGE TB3 PCIe card, M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive on PCIe card, 48GB RAM, macOS 12.7.4 Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3.1/HD Driver 2023.3 HDX, UA Octo PCIe card in external TB3 chassis, MTRX Studio I/O, C|24 control surface. Genelec 1031AP/7070A 5.1 monitoring. |
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Re: Fine tuning my Ultimate rig. Little help, please.
And even beyond that, I had a lot of weird power consumption related issues with my 5,1 Mac Pro. The responsiveness of my apple wireless mouse was the first thing to go. One of the solutions was to unload all of the USB peripherals I had onto a decent TP-link powered USB hub.
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Re: Fine tuning my Ultimate rig. Little help, please.
First time I hear about this. I have a 4,1 live rig and never had a problem with power... maybe they have done something between 4,1 and 5,1 design?
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On the PCI internal bus, I've got the HDX card, a UAD Octo card, an SSD on a PCIe card and a 7970 GPU that takes two power cords. Three of the 4 bays have standard drives in them in addition to the SSD on the PCIe card. I also have 3.46GHz 12 core CPUs, so I'm beating on the power supply pretty hard. I did have the power supply go out about a year ago and I replaced it with a rebuilt one. No issues since. The symptoms of that are having to press the start button multiple times when turning the computer on then finally it won't start at all. I still have the old one and will repair it for a spare. It's a common problem with these 10 year old power supplies. There are a couple of know solders that break loose.
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offthewallproductions Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 Ghz 12 core, Open Core 0.9.8, Radeon RX580 GPU, GC-TITAN RIDGE TB3 PCIe card, M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive on PCIe card, 48GB RAM, macOS 12.7.4 Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3.1/HD Driver 2023.3 HDX, UA Octo PCIe card in external TB3 chassis, MTRX Studio I/O, C|24 control surface. Genelec 1031AP/7070A 5.1 monitoring. |
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Re: Fine tuning my Ultimate rig. Little help, please.
And let's not forget about the dust bunnies that can collect inside a cheesegrater and clog up the airways.
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