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Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 03-18-2013, 12:03 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 6,689
Posted By John H
Re: Installing Pro Tools 8 and later on a new Mac

Only just noticed this but here goes.

a) I'm aware that in a G4 they're PATA not SATA but this guy has a G5 so his drive will be SATA.

In my case I had 2 SATA drives in my G4 on a PCI card, a...
Forum: macOS 03-18-2013, 11:35 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 4,286
Posted By John H
Re: Switching between instruments using Reason

Any instrument you have selected in Reason will playback through your controller no matter what track you want to record in Pro Tools till you set it up correctly and press record on an instrument...
Forum: macOS 03-18-2013, 11:14 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 9,758
Posted By John H
Re: New Mac for PT10/11: Budget $1000-1500. Options?

The 2012 Mac Mini Quad systems are actually faster from a raw CPU power point of view than either the Mac Pro you were looking at and the current entry level Mac Pros at 3 x it's price.

All you...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 01-08-2013, 11:11 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 6,689
Posted By John H
Re: Installing Pro Tools 8 and later on a new Mac

Here's how I moved from my G4 to a 2009 Mac Mini running Snow Leopard

1) Download the 8.0.5 updater for Pro Tools LE

2) remove the drive from the old Mac.

3) I Put the old drive in an...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 10-20-2011, 07:33 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,594
Posted By John H
Re: PT 10 w/ MBOX?

I have the Mbox2 Factory myself and the LE to Protools 10 cross-grade in the UK is £348! Online retailers are selling off the LE to PT9 crossgrade for £162 so I'm pretty annoyed about that when I'm...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 05-23-2011, 12:55 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 4,494
Posted By John H
Re: Mac Mini and PTLE 8

I'd consider getting a used Mac Pro instead!

If you add the cost of the Oxford based Firewire drive you'll need for recording, even building you're own with a case such as the SK-3500 + the cost...
Forum: Storage Subsystems 03-22-2011, 10:17 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 5,648
Posted By John H
Re: forget SSDs

http://www.barefeats.com/hard130.html

Even the slowest of the SSDs in a RAID 0 configuration manages nearly 400Mb/s read/write of sustained data and 150Mb/s of random data. As a single drive that...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 03-16-2011, 03:13 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,727
Posted By John H
Re: How do I get Pro Tools LE on my new Mac

I had the same problem with my Audiomedia III system when I moved from a Beige G3 to a Quicksilver G4.

I only track software synths so the hardware is used to output audio, not record anything...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 03-05-2011, 03:04 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 3,874
Posted By John H
Talking Re: Seperate SSD Drive instead of Oxford Chipset

Whatever external drive you get, the controller HAS to be an Oxford one.

They're not too expensive if you don't mind 50Mb/s maximum, you can get a 750Gb Seagate Barraccuda 7200.12 with 8.5ms...
Forum: macOS 02-15-2011, 05:18 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 19,016
Posted By John H
Re: Its time to sue digi/avid????

I find this worrying. I thought my issue with system audio was down to using an Mbox2 on a low spec system and it's simply CPU spikes effecting the Core Audio output.

I eventually decided to run...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 01-05-2011, 02:40 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,949
Posted By John H
Re: Old vs. New Mac Pro Question (RTAS processing)

If you allocated 7 out of 8 cores and you currently use 3 out of 4 cores, you'd have far more CPU power available for plugins.

I know Geekbench isn't any real indication but bearing in mind the...
Forum: Storage Subsystems 09-26-2010, 01:00 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 7,867
Posted By John H
Re: What will the new hard drive format mean for Pro Tools?

With the HFS+ format being the standard for over a decade, the Mac hasn't had to worry about large file sizes since BEFORE OS X and we were still manually allocating memory and "co-operatively"...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 08-29-2009, 02:38 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,918
Posted By John H
Re: Low PC Memory in Vista

Record to a separate drive from your system

It's a requirement to actually use a second drive for recording and a 7200rpm drive with 10ms or less access time is the minimum specs.

An internal...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 08-28-2009, 02:01 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 4,480
Posted By John H
Re: Is this Mac Pro good for top quality PT productions?

That model can be upgraded to the full 32Gb or RAM with a little searching on eBay for about £600.

The newer models of Mac Pro have 3 channel RAM, use VERY expensive RAM to start with and you have...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 03-28-2009, 12:23 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,785
Posted By John H
When will the Mbox 2 Micro include the install DVDs for LE 8.0 in the box?

It seems a better option for me than buying the upgrade for Pro Tools LE 8.0 to use with my current Mbox2.

If I buy the upgrade through Digidesign it's £106, I can't find any links to ways of...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 02-26-2009, 04:17 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 4,519
Posted By John H
Talking Re: Mac Mini M-Box Dave C tests

Have any Mac Mini owners done the Dave C test on an Intel C2D model recording to an external Oxford 911 based drive?

The 1.42Ghz G4 Mac Mini recording to a USB 2.0 drive gets 24 tracks and that's...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 11-19-2006, 03:57 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 5,146
Posted By John H
Re: Beyond the Digi 001

I don't know if it's what you're looking for right now and you'll probably have the same problems of having old SCSI stuff lying around that I do once you upgrade. I have an external yamaha 8x8x24...
Forum: General Discussion 09-17-2006, 05:13 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,022
Posted By John H
40+ Failed download attempts on digidesign.com!

I've being trying to get the PTLE71update for about 2 months now!

Every single time, no matter how fast it starts downloading, 1 hour to go, 45 mins to go... whatever... It keeps messing up about...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 07-16-2006, 07:30 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,706
Posted By John H
Mbox2 constant -6104, -6101 or Hardware not found!

I was working on a session last night with only about 10 tracks and maybe 5 or 6 plug-ins and it kept loosing audio and I had to re-open Protools LE once the cpu usage started reaching maximum.
...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 06-18-2006, 01:09 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,912
Posted By John H
Protools Le 7.0 Crash on startup, can\'t register

I have 1Gb of RAM and OS 10.4.3

I installed Protools LE 7.0 ONLY none of the ignition pack or factory bundle.

Restarted. Plugged Mbox2 into it's own USB Port and Opened Protools LE 7.0

It...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 11-02-2005, 02:23 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 11,292
Posted By John H
High CPU load?

With CPU monitor on, I noticed Digi CoreAudio Manager uses 16.2 - 16.9% cpu just for being active! Playing music through iTunes made it peak at 17.4% at times too. Seems quite excessive for 2...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 11-01-2005, 03:29 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,265
Posted By John H
Re: Dual Monitors?

Got 1 Samsung 913N 19" LCD so far and was running my Apple 17" CRT along side it as a second monitor on my old mac, would definately get a second samsung 19" for my quicksilver once I've bought other...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 11-01-2005, 02:43 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,437
Posted By John H
Problems moving from Beige G3 to Quicksilver

The system I bought second hand came with the original 40Gb IBM Drive and a 60Gb Maxtor drive. They're both 7200 rpm and running on ATA0 as Master and slave.

I intended moving my Western Digital...
Forum: Pro Tools M-Powered (Mac) 07-02-2005, 01:58 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 3,203
Posted By John H
Re: M-powered and LE in the same Mac?

If I bought a dual bootable G4. Would I be able to Boot OS 9 and run PT 5.x.x with my Audiomedia III and boot OS X and run Protools M-Powered using an audiophile card?

I wouldn't have drivers...
Forum: 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) 06-12-2005, 02:29 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,452
Posted By John H
Re: mac not opening dvd-r

Are you sure they're DVD-Rs not DVD+Rs?

I bought some DVD+Rs accidently when I ordered my DVD Recorder (or the company I bought them from messed up!) and I had the same problem.

I had no...
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