DP CPU Usage

[sdfalk]

Perhpas he's refering to Disk Read, write in Configure studio settings.
It's under the setup menu in "Configure Audo System."

[Tomas E]

Originally posted by inukshuk:

Originally posted by e-snobben:
I had a similiar problem some years ago. Below is a quote from MOTU Tech Support:

"Try setting the Disk Cache in the memory control panel to the lowest
setting (96 or 128K). This usually clears up problems with disk spiking."

DP may however alert you about the low Disk Cache setting.

e-snobben

I checked and there is no Disk Cache settings in DP or Panther OS X. I did a find and no results came up.

The Disk Cache referred to is in the OS 9 Memory Control Panel (Apple menu/Control Panels/Memory. It's not within DP. But I have no experience of using OS X.

[Freddy Bloggs]

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Originally posted by Fred Bloggs:
MHO
DP4.52 is very cpu hungry,
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How did you ascertain that?

Good point, let me rephraise that. The way the program behaves is a bit slow & clunky compared to DP3.
Even tho the CPU is not being driven that hard in the Activity Monitor the performance is comparitively slower & easily maxed out with lower buffer settings.
I've never tried cuemix (laziness) but am reminded by Siryne that's how DP is designed to be used for zero latency tracking.

[CWoodONe]

I have a ton of problems with the CPU peaking out on even NI's Express Keys, or just about anything else. 1.8 iMac, 1 gig ram, two firewire external drives. Kontakt and Kompakt MIDI notes stick. I'm about to bag it for an AMD box with Cubase... anybody gone this route? Did it improve things? Anybody seen the ADKpro boxes with AMD dual cores?

Thanks!

[sdfalk]

I've never tried cuemix (laziness) but am reminded by Siryne that's how DP is designed to be used for zero latency tracking.

I've "tried it" and use it all the time.
Easy to set up, easy to use and with Motu Hardware,
Near zero latency tracking.
On a single 1.8G5 4gb of ram everything is pretty smooth.

[tencentcat]

Originally posted by Siryne:
tencentcat: you don't say which audio interface you are useing. If it is MOTU then Cuemix is your friend. Gets you latency free monitoring so you can run the higher buffer settings.
Peace!

I'm running on a Presonus Firepod. I recently dumped Pro Tools to switch to either Logic or DP or both and I'm a bit surprised that DP seems more of a hog than PT LE.

So far I'm really enjoying DP (many comfortable similarities to PT) but I don't know how much use I can get out of it unless I can use low buffer settings. I remember Performer 3.6 running really fast on my Mac Plus - maybe I should pull that back out