Demo Songs / Sessions for PT10

[Chingy]

Hi,

I noticed in the PT10 trial download (+ the extended downloaded) there wasn't any demo songs / sessions. I believe PT8 and PT9 came with some demo songs? Is there a way to download some demo sessions? Or, since I don't have PT9, a way to get the demos from PT9?

Thanks!

[panamajack]

There is a demo song on the PT10 backup DVD. You can purchase the backup DVD online for $15. The DVD also has the pdf files.

[matthias.matthias]

No need to order the backup DVD. The pdfs and the demo session are included with the download version as well. They are in a folder called "Additional Files" located within the downloaded archive.

The huge file size of the installer has to be good for something.

P.S.: The above is definitively true for the bought windows version, but my guess is, it's the same for Mac and the demo as well.

[Chingy]

Thanks - I'm seeing a peak of 37% CPU usage on the demo song. Does that sound good / bad / average for an 8-core Mac Pro? 100% of the timeline is cached.

I made some of the AVID suggested optimizations as well - didn't really seem to do all that much. How effective are things like turning off WiFi, Bluetooth, and Spotlight Indexing?

[Chingy]

Bump. Any thoughts on the demo track performance?

[avatar9000]

Originally Posted by Chingy

Thanks - I'm seeing a peak of 37% CPU usage on the demo song. Does that sound good / bad / average for an 8-core Mac Pro? 100% of the timeline is cached.

I made some of the AVID suggested optimizations as well - didn't really seem to do all that much. How effective are things like turning off WiFi, Bluetooth, and Spotlight Indexing?

I tripped out when I loaded up the demo song and the CPU (native) was hovering around 68-72% at idle. I'm running a 2.4 Core Duo with 8GB RAM, Mac OS 10.6.8. I also got a CPU overload error about half way through playing the session. I was concerned.

I created a new session, and created 20 tracks at a time, each time putting ChannleStrip on everyone. I got up to 200 mono tracks, each with ChannelStrip, and the cpu hovered around 80%. For kicks and grins, I added SansAmp to each channel. That brought it to its knees of course.
I started removing tracks and was able to have around 120 tracks, each with ChannelStrip and SansAmp. CPU usage was again around78-80%. I'm happy with that for an "LE" native system. This was with a buffer setting of 1024 since all I do on this rig is mix and master. Start reducing the buffer size, and system performance starts to take a hit naturally.

Those are my findings since having it installed 12 hours ago.

[MarkH]

I have a MBP 2.93ghz Core 2 Duo (full specs in my signature) and the PT10 demo session averages around 65-67% CPU utilization. I have CPTK so I can take advantage of the cached timeline and I do not receive any errors during playback. If I disable caching the CPU will move up and down more and I'll get a playback error.

With the PT9 demo session (The Legion) I would average around 35% CPU utilization when running in PT9. I haven't tested The Legion in PT10.

[Chingy]

What was your buffer setting at and interface? Mine wa at 128 with an Mbox 3 Pro.

Any other Mac Pro or Mbox 3 Pro users try this?

[browniespeaks]

On my home machine win7 64 i3-550 6GB RAM and mbox mini (3g) Command 8. I'm at 30% idle and 35%peak CPU (native), CPU Clip 1-4% and Disk 13% Thats at a 512 buffer. No change on stats at lower buffer sizes. Running nice at 128 now.

[MarkH]

Originally Posted by Chingy

What was your buffer setting at and interface? Mine wa at 128 with an Mbox 3 Pro.

Any other Mac Pro or Mbox 3 Pro users try this?

For Audrye Sessions-Turn Me Off my buffer was at 512. If I change it to 128 I see an average of 75% but the peak shoots much higher and I will get some pops and clicks happening at periodic intervals. If I set it to 256 the average is 69-70% and the playback is smooth. I attribute this to the timeline caching because without it I get CPU errors even at 512.