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Hey Tomas,
Any luck getting your Pro Tools gear to work properly on the iMac platform?
Regards,
Vogger
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Hey man, here are my findings which lead me to believe it might be a compatibility issue or an issue with my iMac revision (I suspect the internal Firewire Bus):
DiGI asked me to test it on my macbook and I did, this was my response back.
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Sure thing, the thing runs on the macbook fine, not only that but I will give you some examples: it runs like a breeze with no UI glitches or anything. (The best I’ve run PT so far including my old G5) it makes me wonder about the firewire bus on the iMac and System Architecture
On the iMac:
on the imac I would have to use a buffer of 512 during recording and more than likely it will live on the 1024 at mixing
cpu on the imac would have to be at 85% or above
these sessions were recorded at 96k
On the MacBook:
I am abusing it right now and I have gone as low as 128 on the buffer with small instances where it would stop, but 256 is very reliable
I have gone as low as 65% on the CPU but more comfortable at 75%
sessions were originally recorded at 96k
The sessions I tested range from 6 audio channels to 48 audio plus Aux/Midi
Same data path; 003 -> HD -> Macbook/iMac
Given I haven’t installed reason or any other heavy sampler yet but so far this is were the iMac would render itself unusable, Waves SSL – MP Toolkit – Wave Arts (Latest Version of everything)
Configuration:
Imac:
2.4 Ghz Proc
4 GB Mem
320 GB 7200 RPM
256 Video
MacBook: (BLACK)
2 months old so is the newest
2.4 Ghz Proc
4 GB Mem
250 GB 5400 RPM
144 MB Video (Shared Mem)