anyone running HD native on a Woodcrest Quad 2.66 1, 1 Mac Pro

[snacky]

Just wondering if it is viable. Avid has it listed as a qualified mac for PT 8.5. But we are way past that now.

Any input would be apreciated

Snacky

[acmost]

This is about as much as I could find.

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=307492

[xbuzzlightyearz]

I run this set up with absolutely no issues whatsoever. I track at 32 playback buffer with around 50 plug ins with no problems. I also made the switch to HD 10 and have seen even better performance thanks to the ram cache feature. Hope this helps you.

[cananball]

Originally Posted by xbuzzlightyearz

I run this set up with absolutely no issues whatsoever. I track at 32 playback buffer with around 50 plug ins with no problems. I also made the switch to HD 10 and have seen even better performance thanks to the ram cache feature. Hope this helps you.

WOW really? Makes me feel better about 2.26 Nehalem 8 core I just bought!

[danander11]

Originally Posted by xbuzzlightyearz

I run this set up with absolutely no issues whatsoever. I track at 32 playback buffer with around 50 plug ins with no problems. I also made the switch to HD 10 and have seen even better performance thanks to the ram cache feature. Hope this helps you.

How may tracks at a time are you doing? What resolution?, and what plugins?

I've a 2x3.0 GHz Clovertown, HD|N and in a couple of days a 8x8x8.. For drums I usually record 10-14 tracks at a go at 32 samples, (24/48). If I can do this, (for now), I will be satisfied. Though I will expect to do more with it than I could my 003..

[zion]

Originally Posted by danander11

How may tracks at a time are you doing? What resolution?, and what plugins?

I've a 2x3.0 GHz Clovertown, HD|N and in a couple of days a 8x8x8.. For drums I usually record 10-14 tracks at a go at 32 samples, (24/48). If I can do this, (for now), I will be satisfied. Though I will expect to do more with it than I could my 003..

Piece of cake! I have recorded 64 tracks @ one time and it was very stable on my system. whats nice about disc cache is when I recorded another 64 tracks, the first 64 tracks were now playing back in disc cache leaving my harddrive free to simultaneously record another 64 track with little disc activity. The other cool thing is the uasage meter lets you keep track of both percentages. What great performance! What a great PT10 release! O' and this was @ a 32 sample buffer. Wow!

[glennaudio]

Originally Posted by xbuzzlightyearz

I run this set up with absolutely no issues whatsoever. I track at 32 playback buffer with around 50 plug ins with no problems. I also made the switch to HD 10 and have seen even better performance thanks to the ram cache feature. Hope this helps you.

That's really good performance. what plug-ins you're using? I have a 12-core 2.93 Mac Pro with 5 plug-ins and can't use that small of a buffer size without getting 90xx errors... and that's recording 1 track.

[jacko]

I tested HD Native for the first time yesterday. Mixing session with plenty of RTAS plugins that I ran on Hd1 Accel was working on the same machine even better. 1.1 Dual 2.66 Xeon.

[fourthtunz]

Originally Posted by glennaudio

That's really good performance. what plug-ins you're using? I have a 12-core 2.93 Mac Pro with 5 plug-ins and can't use that small of a buffer size without getting 90xx errors... and that's recording 1 track.

I've got an old quad Macpro1.1 3ghz with 6 gigs of ram and I tested it out tonight with plain old Protools 10 no card no HD and it rocks!
Way better than Pt 9!
I ran Charles dye's mix it like a record mix from his dvd which is at least 50 tracks and loaded it with plugs and then I tried to overdub my voice and was able to work at 32 samples, could not believe it!
I even tried to crash it on another mix with 30 tracks by adding dig's 7 band eq to each track, oxford dynamics to each track and then added sound toys devilloc to every track, at that point my overdub vocal was breaking up but I raised the buffer to 64 and used LLM and I was good to go!
You should upgraded to 10, sorry but I think its superior!

[fourthtunz]

Originally Posted by xbuzzlightyearz

I run this set up with absolutely no issues whatsoever. I track at 32 playback buffer with around 50 plug ins with no problems. I also made the switch to HD 10 and have seen even better performance thanks to the ram cache feature. Hope this helps you.

You're talking about running HD10 without a native card right?
I just heard this for the first time today that you don't need a card to HD10?
The disk cache feature would make that an easy buy if you ask me!