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I have Gypsy and Fab Four and find those somewhat unstable. For me, this is an understatement. The Play software is basically a virus inside DP on my system. The way I work around is to load the instrument track (SD2 or VOP) after the sequence and all other VI's are loaded, do my work with the soun...

Awesome, thanks, this was driving me nuts as well!

Leigh, they are DP crashes. I think I am running too many VI's at once and then after the machine has been pushed hard for hours it seems like it needs a break. A restart is like magic. I'm not a computer tech but it SEEMS like either all direct from hard disk sample reading and buffering across all...

I've got my mac pro 3.0 in an iso box too, L, and when the temp gets up around 85 degrees if I've been pushing the thing hard all day and night I might get a crash. The good thing is everything recovers fine and the thing cranks so I've got no complaints. But I've been wondering, since it's in the i...

I never work in one sequence either. What if your file becomes corrupted? Or you're working on a cue in one section of a file and inadvertently screw up another and don't realize it until much later? One thing I do that hasn't been mentioned yet is to create a "Cues Preview" file with no V...

Insert a Key Change in the conductor track. If you want every accidental to show up leave it as C major then create a custom key or scale and you can choose which way the notes appear - C# or Db, F# or Gb, etc.

I just meant the retail box, the cardboard thing with the pics. I asked the sales guy when I bought mine and he confirmed that I'd be getting the same drive, just no pretty box or instructions. But you're right, looking at the website most of the drives look like they belong in an external enclosure...

Chris, I'm late to this but my experiences are in sync with everyone else - the raptors are great and with 3 of them in a Mac Pro the whole thing is still quieter than my G5. I think getting an external one for video via firewire is overkill though, I would go for a bigger drive in that case (I only...

Thanks, Monkey, this helped me too. I don't use that thing too much but it's nice to have the names (I already had the file on the G5).

I'm sure the Ensemble would be fine if you did that, but I just figured there's always going to be something you'll want the firewire ports for (I use them now to stream video) and I wanted the audio to be on its own path. It may not matter anymore, considering how fast the mac pro is, but the frust...

I got the Apogee Symphony card set up with the Rosetta 800 a few months ago when I upgraded to a Mac Pro. I was using the 896HD with a G5 (which I still have as a VI slave). I love the Apogee, I think it slays the prior set up. Of course this is all subjective, I haven't done any A/B tests and I don...

While you're waiting around for DP to change, you might want to consider using Barbabatch (from Audioease) to batch convert all the files before loading into DP (I've had poor results in the past with DP's conversion process and no longer trust it).

Hey I don't know about the link but I'm using the UC33 and it works great. But I'm only using it to input controller data, I haven't modified it to control DP.

I also have "G-SATA" drives from G-Tech. They come with 2 disks that you can use together in a raid or format for separate use. I use one with a raid setup and a PCI card from Seritek with a G5. The other I just got, it now comes with the PCI card included and I'm using as 2 separate exter...

I wonder if this is why I spent the last 2 days re-installing my programs and OS back to 10.4.9....thanks Apple!