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sdfalk wrote:I wish I did
Has Edirol given you any input on the problem?
not really, just says its 'out-of-the-box' compatible with osx 10.3 upwards and
even goes through installation in DP in the manual...
freaky, there a fresh topic just started about the fa-101 literally now...how mental is that??
Weird..
Maybe more insights there?
A 2018 Mac mini with 16 gb of ram
HUGE bunch o' AU instruments/fx...
A Metric Halo ULN8-3D…mmmmmmm
Remember to eat all your fruits and vegetables!
My OS is The amazingly gratuitous 10.14
I'm the person who started that topic but I had no idea it was being talked about here. I don't know if you read what I said in that topic post (which was originally posted yesterday I might add) but my computer is a 1.42GHz iBook with 1GB RAM so pretty fast for a laptop but I still have these problems with the Edirol. I called Edirol and they said to call MOTU about the problem which I haven't done yet and don't plan to. You should just read my post in that topic... it explains everything I've been going through with this card. I really want to keep the card because its the only one I found that was so cheap that could do 192 kHz audio and had so many outputs as well. The MIDI connections also helped since I have a hell of a lot of keyboards. I bought it on eBay for $330!
basically the original issue is that dp 4.6 appears to be graphically sluggish and using abnormal amounts of cpu. I'm using a PBook 1.67ghz with 1 gig ram, 10.4.2. (one of these days i'll get round to putting my kit in my signature like everyone else!)
sdfalk and magic dave have suggested using work priority set to medium to sort this out. I, like you have a FA-101 and cannot use anything other than Low priority setting. I havent found any other clues as to why this might be, but on osx audio forum, theres a post where a fa-101 user has problems on their laptop, but none on their dual G4 desktop....nothing enlightening there tho...
i think we need a big shed, with a lot of lights on here...
its quite difficult to narrow down the problem as to whether its dp, osx 10.4.2 or edirol. You mentioned that you called Edirol but they said call Motu!!
in the meantime, I have some deadlines to meet and this issue is start to grate a little!
I called Edirol and they said to call MOTU about the problem which I haven't done yet and don't plan to
Then I'd ask why not?
A 2018 Mac mini with 16 gb of ram
HUGE bunch o' AU instruments/fx...
A Metric Halo ULN8-3D…mmmmmmm
Remember to eat all your fruits and vegetables!
My OS is The amazingly gratuitous 10.14
I like this audio card too much to let go of it... I'd rather just save up and buy myself a faster computer. Mine works for EVERYTHING but VIs with Work Priority set to High. For VIs I must set the WP to Low.
It's worth noting that when you open a project with 4.6 for the first time, EVERY audio file will be re-analyzed. That is because of it's need to have pitch automation data at the ready. Also, the default choice of beat analysis is likely not in your interest either. If you open the Background Tasks window, you can see this at work. Don't expect peak performance while this is happening. Consider a quick trip to the kitchen instead. After that, 4.6 is pretty perky around here.
Powerbooks, yes, set it to medium (I use LOW myself). HIGH is out of the question. No biggie, this just has to do with thred priority,and it's great to be able to tweak such things.
All that said, 4.6 runs fine on my powerbook 1.67. As far as the comment pertaining to how fast / how new one's machine must be, that depends on what kind of performance you want. If you want pro results, buy a pro system. Don't expect your mother's iMac to provide pro results. You get what you pay for.
Spent time trying things out with DP4.5 and realised that the sluggish behaviour is directly related to having play and record enabled. If I disable record the computer runs normally. Any track record enabled and I'm watching the color wheel.
A few weeks ago I was recording a live show - 12 tracks at 24bit/44.1 with a 867 powerbook usign dp4.6. The thing kept dropping samples and giving me the system playback overload message. The graphics were completely unresponisve too. Then I switched over to Cubase sx, with the same setiings everything worked like a charm. No graphics latencies, no dropped samples. It worked perfectly smooth. What gives? I wish DP was more optimized for the Mac ever since I switched to OSx and DP it has sucked- slow repsonse. Playback errors. I am considering going to Logic or Cubase.
It makes sense about DP only being ported to OSX. I believe it!
The problem is that the software companies design the newest releases with the increased speed of the current computers in mind. It forces us all to buy new machines!!
