Mac Pro 2013 + Pro Tools 11 + UA Apollo Quad

[fsguerra]

I am trying to figure out the optimal Playback Engine settings for the configuration mentioned in the title:

Mac Pro 2013 3Ghz 8-Core, 32 GB RAM, Mavericks OS X 10.9.2
Pro Tools 11.1.2
Apollo Quad UAD 2

When tracking I am setting the H/W Buffer Size to 32 Samples. No plug-ins active. Simply using the session to create voice overs for some training videos.

10 seconds into recording I am getting that infamous "send the logs to Avid" and report the error.

Up at 128 Samples, not the same issue but the latency is slightly annoying. I guess I can resolve this by monitoring through the UA Console.

On the flip side, on music projects, i have over 50 tracks on a session and a whole mess of virtual instruments and Waves plug-ins. I set the sample rate to 32 samples and I don't crash.

I'll play around with the H/W buffer size but am thinking maybe there is some good knowledge out there on setting up the Playback Engine.

Thanks for your time!

Francisco

[fsguerra]

And... I found it. :)

http://www.uaudio.com/blog/pro-tools-apollo-setup/