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Has anyone tried this freeware offered on the Apple site? Any reason it wouldn't help running Digital Performer 4.6 with lots of plugs on a G4 Powerbook/Tiger system?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/cpuspeedaccelerator.html

www.markkleinhaut.com

Hre's a few folks who HAVE tried it. Read the responses and extra comments carefully...

... and if/when things go bad, "you're on your own..."

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21545

<small>[ August 19, 2005, 08:02 AM: Message edited by: MIDI Life Crisis ]</small>

Thanks MIDI-L, I had no idea. Seems like the best plan is just eliminate all extraneous programs from my system so there is nothing there to run in the background....

The heads up is highly appreciated.

-Mark

Not a problem. You might want to start with eliminating widgets in the dashboard. That was the single most effective self-help item that sped up my system.

Originally posted by Mark kleinhaut:
Has anyone tried this freeware offered on the Apple site? Any reason it wouldn't help running Digital Performer 4.6 with lots of plugs on a G4 Powerbook/Tiger system?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/cpuspeedaccelerator.html

www.markkleinhaut.com

Well it's not exactly "freeware". It does cost some money. I forgot right now how much I paid. I use it in a "legacy" MAC that has been tricked into running TIGER. In fact there are several similar programmes but they are really only intended to boast the performance of the "legacy" machines running OS X thanks to XPOSTfacto.

Dispite "APPLE's" comments I don't see the need to using this in a "for real" G4 especially a G4 or G5 running TIGER. TIGER has already addressed the issue of maximizing cpu with the RAM and cpu of the MAC.

I've also created special log in for what I call DigitalPerfomrer. In that log in it just runs the very very basics of TIGER. No eye candy stuff.

Also I've limited what "SPOTLIGHT" does. I've set mine to just do applications and only at the working hard drive. While working in DP I don't want spotlight to update itself for documents etc.

Excuse me if you know all this kind of stuff.

<small>[ August 20, 2005, 03:27 PM: Message edited by: midiw ]</small>

They had this for OS 9, it was called the extensions manager.

DP and MSI run sooooo much better on a minimal 10.4.2 build with no other software installed. Bam 20% increase easy, FREE.

midiw wrote:

Originally posted by Mark kleinhaut:
Has anyone tried this freeware offered on the Apple site? Any reason it wouldn't help running Digital Performer 4.6 with lots of plugs on a G4 Powerbook/Tiger system?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/cpuspeedaccelerator.html

www.markkleinhaut.com

Well it's not exactly "freeware". It does cost some money. I forgot right now how much I paid. I use it in a "legacy" MAC that has been tricked into running TIGER. In fact there are several similar programmes but they are really only intended to boast the performance of the "legacy" machines running OS X thanks to XPOSTfacto.

Dispite "APPLE's" comments I don't see the need to using this in a "for real" G4 especially a G4 or G5 running TIGER. TIGER has already addressed the issue of maximizing cpu with the RAM and cpu of the MAC.

I've also created special log in for what I call DigitalPerfomrer. In that log in it just runs the very very basics of TIGER. No eye candy stuff.

Also I've limited what "SPOTLIGHT" does. I've set mine to just do applications and only at the working hard drive. While working in DP I don't want spotlight to update itself for documents etc.

Excuse me if you know all this kind of stuff.

<small>[ August 20, 2005, 03:27 PM: Message edited by: midiw ]</small>

I'm totally new to the Mac world and the Motu-DP world, so all help is appreciated. I've read elsewhere about limiting the Spotlight, but I don't know how to do this (yet). I did trash most of the widgets, though I can't tell if they're really gone or just hiding.

www.markkleinhaut.com