Playback Overload!?!?!?!

croftish · Post by **croftish** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:17 am

Having just read this thread I'm full off pity for our poor underpowered noob.
Get defragging I say mate.

And I have to agree, what an unnecessarily rude 1st response from MLC.

MIDI Life Crises just sounds like a grumpy self important w@nker.

Peace.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:22 am

Timeline wrote:re: the outpouring of info for a distressed newbee that has not even explained to us how or when he bought into or got a copy of DP in the first place for a 1ghz laptop. ...

You think maybe he's a pirate, mate-ie? Arrrrrrrrr.....

TOD · Post by **TOD** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:29 am

croftish wrote:Having just read this thread I'm full off pity for our poor underpowered noob.
Get defragging I say mate.

And I have to agree, what an unnecessarily rude 1st response from MLC.

MIDI Life Crises just sounds like a grumpy self important w@nker.

Peace.

Now Now!

I think it's time for a group hug.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:47 am

TOD wrote: I think it's time for a group hug.

FU(K that! I missed the Brit humor until you posted. You know, these guys come in here LOOKING for people who know what the fu(k they're talking about and when they find them they bitch that we are secure in our knowledge. How did we get so smart? BY bashing those who have helped us? No. And we don't deserved to be bashed by folks we are attempting to help.

BTW, you (Mr Brit) are correct. I do hold myself in high esteem. I also respect others (at least those with intelligence). If you guys insist on continuing this thread as a bashing session or a discussion of my ego, then I will see to it that it gets moved to the gripes section. Or deleted.

ALL of these lame comments are from noobies and are contrary to the intent of the board and it's owner. Either get over it and move on or go to MacMusic and see how many responses you get to your concerns.

NEXT!

newrigel · Post by **newrigel** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:22 am

Now if someone comes on here and ask for a PDF of a DP manual or is just an ass then I won't reply...
I just try to contribute to this community in a polite and professional manner regardless...
I learn quite a bit from the members here and even though my problems are pretty much my own fault, I always get help here.
But I'm in no way a DP investigator LOL!

Timeline · Post by **Timeline** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:46 am

I think I'll agree with TOD-o Group hug at this point. See you at the party. Me gone....

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:57 am

Timeline wrote:I think I'll agree with TOD-o Group hug at this point. See you at the party. Me gone....

Ditto. Off my watch list.

IAMLFO · Post by **IAMLFO** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:44 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote: Browser? I was on an Apple IIe accessing BBS's (text only, modem with a telephone handset resting on a giant box with a speaker). CompuServe (also all text) and the PAN (Perf. Artist Network) were cutting edge. Of course, a 20MB (That's with an M) HD was the size of a show box and cost about $300 bucks.

The bad old days!

We might have bumped into each other at some point. I was a moderator for the Visual Basic group on CompuServe for about 2 years. I got a free membership and hung around several forums including music groups. Never did get on PAN though, don't know why.

My computer of choice during the mid 80s was a TI 994A, then a TRS 80 and Commodore 64 / 256. Finally started with a PC XT and upgraded every time a new x86 came out. Those were the days! Loading apps using cassette tapes, excitement over VGA graphics.

Now that I think about it, we technically were not on the Internet when we were on a BBS or Compuserve. At least not Compuserve until the early 90s, but by then it was all by dead. May it rest in peace!

-Kevin

stephen1212b · Post by **stephen1212b** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:06 pm

Wow PAN. I haven't thought about that site in forever. I think I was on a Commodore 64, no it had to have been the mac plus with Performer and I exchanged patches for that cool new synth the DX7. No processor overload back then. Of course no D in DP just MIDI data.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:35 am

PAN... I remember it well. The host to the longest-running argument in music history: do computers & MIDI cost musicians their jobs? My gosh... it seems so far removed now. Like "do automobiles cost horses their jobs?" Except the answer is not the same. It takes musicians to run computers & MIDI.

Hey, are we off-topic or what?

Shooshie

croftish · Post by **croftish** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:15 am

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
TOD wrote: I think it's time for a group hug.
they bitch that we are secure in our knowledge. How did we get so smart?

NEXT!

There goes that arrogant self-importance again. For a start I wasn't 'bitching' about anything, just sticking up for someone.
Secondly, I have seen absolutely no evidence in this thread of you actually being of any help whatsoever or indeed of you exhibiting very much intelligence.

How did you get so smart? A rhetorical question obviously.

dogBoy · Post by **dogBoy** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:40 am

Well, I have learned something, a hard-drive thats almost full can cause
overloads.

Not that your running a video with your seq.....BUt I experience overloads
when the quicktimes I'm scoring to are compressed with H.261,3 or 4.

I use to think the smaller the file the better the performance, now its a balance of file size and codec.

I'm running an I-Mac Intel

Thanks for the Post

stayingetdown · Post by **stayingetdown** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:14 pm

Thanks Croftish. All I know is that I'm new to this board and I really don't see why I have to let people talk to me a certain way just to get an answer to a question. Newbies are a fact of life on forums. That's how things are. People have to start somewhere. Also, just because I have an old computer doesn't mean I stole DP. Is that how things are around here?

All that aside, I would like to let everyone know who may have a similar problem, that using a faster spinning, external, hard drive has completely solved my problems! I'm really grateful to ALL those who have taken time and answered in an attempt to help me. My band's recordings are sounding awesome and we're not running into any more technical problems. Thanks again!

chrispick · Post by **chrispick** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:27 pm

stayingetdown wrote:All that aside, I would like to let everyone know who may have a similar problem, that using a faster spinning, external, hard drive has completely solved my problems!

Good! That was my initial suspicion. Glad to see the matter's alleviated.

I'm really grateful to ALL those who have taken time and answered in an attempt to help me. My band's recordings are sounding awesome and we're not running into any more technical problems. Thanks again!

You bet! Make some music!

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:29 pm

stayingetdown wrote:Thanks Croftish. All I know is that I'm new to this board and I really don't see why I have to let people talk to me a certain way just to get an answer to a question. Newbies are a fact of life on forums. That's how things are. People have to start somewhere. Also, just because I have an old computer doesn't mean I stole DP. Is that how things are around here?

Not at all. Look around. Read some of the other threads. You'll find that in virtually all of them, civility rules. This is one of the friendliest forums on the net. I know you don't believe it right now, but stick around and you'll be a believer soon. You're basically dealing with one person who must have been in a bad mood or something. I really don't know why MLC let loose like that on you, and I agree that at first it was very uncalled for. But now it would be really big of you to drop it. You're beginning to paint us all with the same brush, and THAT'S offensive to the rest of us who tried to be civil. Please... let it go.

No, you didn't steal DP, and DP has been good to you on your slower machine. Obviously there are limits to that approach, but you're smart enough to figure out when you've bumped up against those limits, and to start thinking about upgrading your hardware. And you already realize the value of a faster hard drive. Imagine what a faster CPU would do. So, let's drop all that and move on.

But back to the tiff between you and MLC, might we give MLC the benefit of the doubt and presume that if he could do it all over, just maybe he would say things differently this time around? Anyone can back himself into a corner and not feel good about the options he's left for himself. Meanwhile you've got a lot of people who are reaching out to you. It would be nice to focus on the welcome and not on the guy in the balcony blowing raspberries.

I doubt that you'll have to deal with negative behaviors very often in this forum. We just don't see much of it.

stayingetdown wrote:All that aside, I would like to let everyone know who may have a similar problem, that using a faster spinning, external, hard drive has completely solved my problems! I'm really grateful to ALL those who have taken time and answered in an attempt to help me. My band's recordings are sounding awesome and we're not running into any more technical problems. Thanks again!

Speaking for everyone, if I may be so bold: you're welcome. Glad that you're back on your feet!

Shooshie