[JazzyJ]

I'm not familiar with 'play' myself, but as no-one has replied to your post, I'll throw out a possibility:

You've got a '2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon'.

What options do you have in the RTAS Engine playback?

As far as I know a 'rule' of thumb' is to set it to one less than the maximum that you have. So for example, on my Macbook I have a choice of '1 or 2' - If I choose '2' I have a load of RTAS errors but if I choose '1' then the problems go away.

If you trash preferences etc, during trouble shooting, everything reverts to defaults so you'll need to reset your RTAS enging and TCE choice (Digi one is crap - better to use serato, waves, X-Form or soundtoys if you have one).

Also, have you got 'Elastic time' turned on, on any tracks? This can zap power.....


Sorry I haven't got more. But basically, try some different settings in the RTAS engine and disable elastic audio and see how you go.

Last thing, is 'Play' loaded into ram or disk streaming?

If it's disk streaming, maybe you need to 'defrag' (Heresy in OSX I know!) or a format and reinstall of samples?

All the best