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I'm SO HAPPY!

After spending the full evening downloading Tiger's updates, and then Leopard's, like 700MBs in total, I finally could instal Leopard in the G5 (I just found where I can download all that as Zip files from Apple to keep them in a CD for future protection and avoid this again).

Then came the MIDI and Audio MOTU drivers.
Then came DeePeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

At first, the second I opened it it crashed. Puff! My heart started beating faster. Then I upgraded it (from 7 to 7.1). The moment I created and saved a new file, it crashed again... Puff... I was like: "Oh, nooooooooo". Not very encouraging, you know?
I was trying to save it in the other HD (the Audio one). But then, I was able to save the session in the SYSTEM disk, so that gave me a clue...

The problem was that, for some reason, the ownership of the Audio volume was set to "unknown- Read only". THE SECOND I pressed Command-I, and checked the Ignore Ownership for this Volume, and hit Apply to Enclosed Folders, then EVERYTHING WAS GREAT!

I did my Audio-MIDI setup, and I was able to play MIDI. I set my preferences the way I wanted them. Then I duplicated a big project created with 4.61, opened it in 7.1, gave it a few moments to rebuild the waveforms, and.... [Drum roll...] PERFECTION! It feels yes, much snappier , and everything seems to be running great. I did a few extreme Pitch correction stuff (just playing around) and it seems to sound better, and it didn't give me the glitches I was already used to with 4.61.

Granted. I haven't installed Waves, so the project was running without any plugs. But I am SO happy.

On monday I will set Time Machine and let it do its thing. Then, I will stress the computer more, will instal the Spectrasonics' stuff, and Virtual Guitarist 2 (if it's possible). After I'm CONVINCED everything works as it should, THEN and only then will I mess with the Waves updates.

Oh, and one thing that is SO URGENT too... I need to get Amplidood's and iPerformer's mods! The interface looks so ugly in my big monitors, so I need some eye-candy from these guys (after a donation, of course).

A HUEVOOOOOO!!!!! I'm so happy now!

There were just a couple of things I noticed:

1.- The G5 seems to be a little louder than before. Like it's working harder, or something. I will keep an eye on this.
2.- I was not able to find the file that let's me see my Roland JV-2080 expansion cards. I could've SWORN they were on the Extras disk in DP4, but I couldn't find them there...
Does anyone know where I can find this little magic file? It was a tiny one... I remember I just double clicked on it, and as if by magic, I could suddenly see all my Roland's expansion cards. But I didn't find it DP4 disks nor in DP7's...
ANY IDEAS THERE?

Except for point number 2, I'm so excited now I'm actually singing aloud!

What... you mean those horror stories are overblown?

FMiguelez wrote:The G5 seems to be a little louder than before. Like it's working harder, or something. I will keep an eye on this.

This I'm afraid is normal and happens when you go to Leopard on a G5. I had this same thing happen to me. My G5's fan kicked in on projects that never used to do that before. I eventually just got used to that, but I wish I knew what was going on to make it that way.

Bottom line is that Apple has long since stopped caring how things run on PPC computers. I hope to get an Intel someday soon.

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Good! I'm glad to hear it's normal that the G5 becomes noisier.

Hey, I already feel like I belong "in the club" more now
I was feeling a little "legacy Fernando" with Panther and DP 4.61

After I got rid of the consolidated windows (I hate them), and expanded DP with the windows to fit my monitors, everything started looking great.

It's funny how ugly and insignificant DP7 looks at first. I mean, you get a tiny TO window (the first time you open DP7) and... that's it! But after messing a little with my new window sets, and putting everything the way I like, I started feeling at home... at a newer and MUCH BETTER and bigger home!

I feel almost like a newbie in DP7, though. I can't find anything, and a lot of things I used to do with shortcuts won't work anymore (I haven't imported them). I am so bringing the manual with me home during the weekend. I have LOTS of stuff to learn and figure out.

I don't want to take any chances, so I think I will redo all my audio bundles, templates, clippings, window sets and shortcuts from scratch, with a new and fresher approach.

I hope I'm not singing victory too soon, but all I can say everything is working and looking perfect. I can't wait to put Amplidood's and iPerformer's mods in there!

So yes, I feel like I had been living in the dark ages. THIS is the modern world!

And hopefully the new Macs will come out soon. I decided to wait for them. When that happens everything will be so amazing.

I will keep you guys posted on my progress when I finish installing all the other stuff.

yup, when I upgraded my old G5 to Leopard it went very noisy as well

and regarding DP 7.1, it's so so great, I have been using it for weeks, just perfect, today I had a drums recording session, all good, much much better than 6.

I'm glad you sorted it out, now all I can say is Enjoy