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For the first time in 18 months I had some CPU slowness while working in a DP session. I have two Glyph drives (120 and 250) connected via firewire and I often have one on and one off. Last night both were on when I had this slowness. It didn't harm the session, but it concerned me.

Any thoughts or suggestions? I will obviously try powering one off, but it seems to me that is might be something else.
DP 5; UAD-1; Waves Gold plus Renn; Ozone 3; Bias Peak LE; Mac PPC Dual Core 2GHz; Glyph drives for storage; USB and Firewire hub by imogear. Hardware - Ward Beck console with 8 pres/EQs; Manley Dual Mono; Langevin Mini-Massive; Safe Sound P-1; UREI/JBL 6 ch. pres, Drawmer 1968; dbx 160x (2); ART VLA PRO; Manley Tube DI; Apogee Rosetta 800 and PSX-100; MOTU Traveler; etc.
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Post by daniel.sneed »

my 2 cents :
(If note already done)

use OnyX daily, weekly and monthly
use TechtoolPro monthly

It works like a charm here.
dAn Shakin' all over! :unicorn:
DP11.34, OS12.7.6, MacBookPro-i7
Falcon, Kontakt, Ozone, RX, Unisum, Michelangelo, Sparkverb
Waldorf Iridium & STVC & Blofeld, Kemper Profiler Stage, EWIusb, Mixface
JBL4326+4312sub, Behringer X32rack
Many mandolins, banjos, guitars, flutes, melodions, xylos, kalimbas...
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Post by Dwetmaster »

Hey daniel
My wife's IBook got really slow lately. do you have anymore to say on these tools? I just install it and run it? any insight would be great. She's on OSX 10.3.9
MacPro 8Core 2.8GHZ 16GB RAM OSX10.8.3
MacBook Pro 17" Unibody 2011 OSX10.8.3
896mk3, BLA Modded 896HD, BLA Microclock, MTP-AV, Yamaha KX-8, CME VX-7 Mackie Ctrl, megadrum, Presonus C-S,
DP8.04, Bidule, M5 3, Ethno 2, BPM 1.5 Kontakt4, BFD2, SD2, Omnisphere, Wave Arts P-S5, Altiverb7, PSP VW & OldTimer, VB3, Ivory 2 Grand, True Pianos, Ozone 5, Reason 4, AmpliTube3, Bla bla bla...
A few El & Ac basses & Guitars, Hammond A-100.
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Post by daniel.sneed »

OnyX is free
http://www.titanium.free.fr

My wife's iBook has got great benefit from this small and free tool.
Be shure to chose accordingly to the OS.

TechToolPro is another wide subject.
In fact it's that old "defrag or not defrag in OSX" question, which is a dead horse now.
My humble opinions are :
"Defrag !"
and
"TechToolPro rules !"
dAn Shakin' all over! :unicorn:
DP11.34, OS12.7.6, MacBookPro-i7
Falcon, Kontakt, Ozone, RX, Unisum, Michelangelo, Sparkverb
Waldorf Iridium & STVC & Blofeld, Kemper Profiler Stage, EWIusb, Mixface
JBL4326+4312sub, Behringer X32rack
Many mandolins, banjos, guitars, flutes, melodions, xylos, kalimbas...
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Post by cuttime »

Clean off your desktop.
828x MacOS 14.7.6 M1 Studio Max 1TB 64G DP11.34
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Post by janglyrecords »

Thanks folks!
DP 5; UAD-1; Waves Gold plus Renn; Ozone 3; Bias Peak LE; Mac PPC Dual Core 2GHz; Glyph drives for storage; USB and Firewire hub by imogear. Hardware - Ward Beck console with 8 pres/EQs; Manley Dual Mono; Langevin Mini-Massive; Safe Sound P-1; UREI/JBL 6 ch. pres, Drawmer 1968; dbx 160x (2); ART VLA PRO; Manley Tube DI; Apogee Rosetta 800 and PSX-100; MOTU Traveler; etc.
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Post by kgdrum »

cuttime wrote:Clean off your desktop.
cleaning my desktop improved my system, BIGTIME.hd icons are all I have on desktop,Mac is much faster and Projects have alot more CPU available .
KG :wink:
2012 Mac Pro 3.46GHz 12 core 96 gig,Mojave, DP11.01,Logic 10.51, RME UCX,Great River ME-1NV,a few microphones,UAD2, Komplete 12U,U-he,Omni & way too many VI's,Synths & FX galore!, Mimic Pro w/ SD3,Focal Twin 6 monitors, Shunyata...........
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