G5 dual with 2GB Crashing

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:41 pm

Good luck, lumisuto!!

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:55 am

Frodo wrote:
lumisuto wrote:just upgraded to DP 5.11 and OSX 1.4.9, tomorrow Ill erase my DP preferences and test the results. Thanks for your help!
Good luck, lumisuto!!

Aren't you going to tell him to rebuild his bundles, Fwoggy?

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
Frodo wrote: LOL-- you guys! Too funny.
The sad part is that we are being 200% serious!

I'm seriously looking forward to the day I receive my first substantial "music payment".
Soon thereafter, I'd love to jump on a plane for a whirlwind tour of the country, taking as many Unicorns in as I can and settling in LA for a week or two before returning, broke.

lumisuto · Post by **lumisuto** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:34 am

after doing all the updates and deleting preferences I am getting the spinning cursor everytime I open or close a plug in while playing and it takes I while to stop playing, I dont think this is the speed that 2gb of ram should give.

lumisuto · Post by **lumisuto** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:42 am

any ideas of what could be the issue?
thanks

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:00 pm

If all else fails, give your computer a MacOver: First, test your RAM and drives. Clone your system drive to a second drive (unless you know you never want to venture into your old system agan) using free SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner, backup all your projects at least once, preferably twice. Wipe your system drive and partition (to allow future cloning once you get your system stable) and reinstall OSX on one partition from scratch and with great care. Bring it up to date (I use Software Update without trouble). Reinstall your aplications, most current versions only, please! Avoid extraneous applications and garbage. Good Luck.

I go so far as to keep a separate partition for DP use ONLY, using Mail and Outlook only as necessary to update and register software. Don't put Microsoft Office or Warcraft on your music system. Keep it pure and clean as possible, and you wil have a lot less to worry about when trouble rears its ugly head. And once you get a nice system disc setup running, CLONE IT, so you can revert when an upgrade goes bad.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:19 pm

lumisuto wrote:any ideas of what could be the issue?
thanks

You might try moving all your plug-ins to a temp folder and running DP. Then add them back in for DP to examine them when you re-run the prog. Also try starting the Mac in safe-boot (hold the shift key while starting up.)

Calling MOTU tech support is probably called for as well.

lumisuto · Post by **lumisuto** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:51 pm

it appears that by adjusting my buffer size to 1024 and the host buffer multiplier to 1 (previously set at 4) corrected the spinning cursor happening every time I put a plugin in a track. Why could this be?

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:58 pm

lumisuto wrote:it appears that by adjusting my buffer size to 1024 and the host buffer multiplier to 1 (previously set at 4) corrected the spinning cursor happening every time I put a plugin in a track. Why could this be?

Look in the manual. I believe it explains it nicely...

Dave Bourke · Post by **Dave Bourke** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:04 pm

Since you're only using one audio interface, why did you set the host buffer multiplier to 4 in the first place? That setting is to facilitate multiple interfaces.

Kind regards.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:59 am

Dave Bourke wrote:Since you're only using one audio interface, why did you set the host buffer multiplier to 4 in the first place? That setting is to facilitate multiple interfaces.

Kind regards.

I was wondering about this too, Dave.
Wouldn't that have effectively quadrupled the latency?
Might it have chewed unnecessary RAM?

It could be that a memory ceiling's being hit, which is choking the CPU.