002r problems

[Crawl In Studio]

I'm running a G5 1.8Ghz with an 002r. It seems as though I'm getting really really limited amounts of processing power. I'm often getting a message that says that it can't retrieve the information form the harddrive fast enough. I used to run an 001 on a G4 867 and the processors went a whole lot farther. If anyone has any ideas on how to optomize.....or if maybe something is wrong i would really appreciate any ideas on how to make this setup a little more impressive......as in impressive at all.

Mike

[superlovemark]

I'm often getting a message that says that it can't retrieve the information form the harddrive fast enough.

You may want to backup your HD and initialize it. Fragmentation on the audio drive can cause this arror. Plenty of ram is a major part of the performance as well.

[cwhite771]

Are you using a dedicated audio drive? It seems your bottle neck is the drive, not processing power.
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[davetron5000]

I have gotten this issue with a G51.6/002R when bouncing to disk. I was bouncing 3 mono tracks and one stereo track. 3 monos were bussed to one aux with delay and reverb. Regular Dither on the master. 1024 Buffer size. After 30 seconds, it said it couldn't keep up. Dedicated serial ATA drive. virtually fresh.

I've sent two emails to DIGI; no response. Based on another guy's problems with calling them, I'm not optimistic about it getting fixed or resolved. If you find a solution, post it here.

[salsa]

Hello everyone
I am having similar problems with my G4 and OO2R. I was using a 512 G4 with the 001 and it rocked and processed loads of audio with tons of stability. I am crashing due to lack of processing power all the time. This new machine is way stronger. I have had no luck with Sweetwater or Digidesign. Someone post an answer. Please
Sam

[Crawl In Studio]

I am using one 160 gig harddrive that is partitioned into 5 chucks. 1-15 gig that holds operating system stuff, and 4 audio holds. (so i can keep different clients separate from one another) Shouldn't the computer see these as separate drives? I've only been running for about a month now, so it seems unlikely that thinks are fragmented already. One of the drives has only 6 sessions from the same band on it.

I have about a gig of ram...but i have been haveing trouble getting the computer to allocate more memory to protools and DAE. (ya know the way where you hylite the icon and hit command-I, It's not letting me do it, any other ways?)

thanks for the ideas and any other thoughts you have.

-mike

[Carl Z]

If ypur on Panther, do you have the processor speed set to fastest in the control panel?

C

[DesertDude]

A cut and paste from a previous post ( sorry forgot who)
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Sticking to the same eqs and compressors instead of many types can help
Make sure that the powerbook gets a good amount of ventilation, (this really enhances the performance)
I regularly monitor the pro tools preferences (located at User>Library> Preferences >

Try trashing: com.digidesign.protools.plist, Dae Prefs (folder), DigiSetup.osx, PT LE V6.2 Preferences and com.apple.audio.audioMIDIsetup.plist

Try also to trash the Volume.ddb files on your mounted hard drives (Located in the Digidesign Databases folder on your HDs)
In MacHD >Library>Application Support>Digidesign>trash databases folder (if present)

In Apple System preferences:
-Open classic Disable "Start Classic when you log in" Under the Start/Stop tab
-Set the energy saver setting to "highest performance"
-In Network Time and check the box "Use a network time server"

Disable any Virus Protection Software

Empty the trash, but repair the Disk Permissions on the mac HD before you restart: Launch Disk Utility and check that your disks are HFS/HFS+ than select "repair permissions"

Try clearing the PRAM or (parameter RAM): During restart, hold down the "Option", "Command", "P" and "R" keys. Keep holding until you hear the start-up chime three times. Then let go of the keys and let the computer continue booting up

In Pro Tools I use a high cpu limit (85 at least, but depending on the situation) And a high DAE Playback buffer (Level 8)
And the H/W Buffer size at 256 during the plugin test.

There are also threads here on allocating more memory to spesific operations in Osx, but unless youre running too many programs, I dont think this should be nesessary.

[sdemott]

Partitioning your main drive is not the same as having a dedicated audio drive. Yes, the system sees each partition as a separate volume, but a drive can only do one thing at a time - and you're just asking too much asking it to read/run the OS (and swap files), Pro Tools and to act as your audio drive. You can get a second internal drive for under $100.

Also, I find it really helpul to renice ProTools before starting a session. Type "man renice" in the terminal to learn more about renice and how it works.

HTH

[Master Bates]

Also, Panther uses a journaled file system by default. Make sure you have journaling turned OFF on any drive you are using for audio recording. It's good for data recovery but bad for performance.