DP 4.1 upgrade to 4.6

brucie · Post by **brucie** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:17 am

Hi there

Hopefully this post won't be too long winded, I just have a couple of questions. Basically I have been running DP3.11 on an iMac G4 800 with 768Mb of ram. (audio on an FW drive) I moved up to OSX 10.2 about 2 years ago and then moved to 4.1. Needless to say I wasn't happy with the perfomance and a)went back to using 3.11 and b)started using Sonar on the PC (Long story!!).

Needless to say I miss DP so much and want to be using the latest version, but currently I can't afford to upgrade my machine (I know this is the solution....but there is no cash in the business pot!).

So I was wondering

a)Is the change from 10.2.6 to 10.4.(?) and moving to 4.6 going to have that much of an impact? ie is it worth it.

b)I have a very powerful PC and was wondering, if I could use something like MIDI over lan to control my Softsynths on the PC and run DP comfortably on the iMac?

Thanks in advance

Neil

brucie · Post by **brucie** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:51 am

sdfalk · Post by **sdfalk** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:46 am

You would want at least 1gb of ram on the Imac, don't expect much of
a track count with an 800mhz G4 chip in an Imac with 768 mb of
ram.
What sample rates do you want to record at would be one question I could think of.
You'd likely get at least 16 tracks of 24 bit/44khz audio as my friends
old G4/667 powerbook could get that.
If You're using the internal harddrive of your Imac, it's (possibly) a
5400 rpm drive which would slow things down a bit.
Each iteration of OSX has (arguably) improved.
I would NEVER go back to OS 10.2+
As for B..Look at wormhole as a possible solution.
http://plasq.com/wormhole/

Also
I wouldn't waste alot of time with Virtual instruments on a G4/800.