protools+mac=pish - erutufon|nofuture

Yer_Maw · 18th February 2004

spent the entire day using protools 4 on a g4 with 800ish mb of ram. evrything going well until adding a reverb on the send bus which the cpu couldnt cope with it. no chance at all in finishing the mix. is it just me or that a fucking joke? high end pro software on a pretty good machine in a recording studio and you cant have a compressor and an eq on all your channells? was i doing something wrong? the machine kept crashing too. if not what the fuck was this software desingned for? a one man band? done a full mix previously on a g3 before using some other (digidesign, came with the motu card) software with NO problems before. so what the fuck! so protools= shitetools unless anyone knows what may have been wrong..

lief · 18th February 2004

give logic a go!! i can use about 20 audio tracks with plugins on my g4 400MHz with 384mg's of ram! so i think protools is just Poohtools!

Ruben A · 18th February 2004

ehhr?

I used PT on a G3 laptop (192mb) and had no problems?? It never broke down.

komakid · 18th February 2004

audio crap ... sometimes things are going on that nobody can understand.

FiST · 18th February 2004

i have logic and peak and stuff for mac, gies us a shout if you want it yer_maw.

amble · 18th February 2004

perhaps the send bus was connected with to many chans? reverbs can be really hungry. you could try to freeze it though (if thats possible).

christtjj · 18th February 2004

do you know if you were using a protools tdm system? if so, it's a hardware based system which utilizes dsp chips on a pci card bus. typically (at least in pt 4.0) there were 4 chips per chip. some plugins use a whole chip. some use part of a chip. others (like some reverb) use more than one chip. some plugins allocate more memory than is necessary for the task at hand. some plugins just take over one chip, leaving only 3 left to use. you get the picture.

so back to your issue, you may have just used up all of the chips with running a bunch of compressors and so forth and the reverb might have just crashed the system.

the only thing to do, would be to bounce your tracks with compression down and then take all your compressors offline. then the dsp card should be up for the reverb.

cheers!

18th February 2004	#1
Yer_Maw cos we dont fuck about Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: chansville Posts: 5,901	protools+mac=pish spent the entire day using protools 4 on a g4 with 800ish mb of ram. evrything going well until adding a reverb on the send bus which the cpu couldnt cope with it. no chance at all in finishing the mix. is it just me or that a fucking joke? high end pro software on a pretty good machine in a recording studio and you cant have a compressor and an eq on all your channells? was i doing something wrong? the machine kept crashing too. if not what the fuck was this software desingned for? a one man band? done a full mix previously on a g3 before using some other (digidesign, came with the motu card) software with NO problems before. so what the fuck! so protools= shitetools unless anyone knows what may have been wrong..
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18th February 2004	#2
lief Registered Erutufon Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Manchester Posts: 119	give logic a go!! i can use about 20 audio tracks with plugins on my g4 400MHz with 384mg's of ram! so i think protools is just Poohtools!
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18th February 2004	#3
Ruben A \|\| \| \|\|\| \| \| \|\| Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 1,488	ehhr? I used PT on a G3 laptop (192mb) and had no problems?? It never broke down.
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18th February 2004	#4
komakid homeboy Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Kozmo Zagreb Posts: 2,439	audio crap ... sometimes things are going on that nobody can understand.
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18th February 2004	#5
FiST twat farm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: g¬asg*w Posts: 4,502	i have logic and peak and stuff for mac, gies us a shout if you want it yer_maw.
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18th February 2004	#6
amble Moppi Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Leeeptzsch Posts: 930	perhaps the send bus was connected with to many chans? reverbs can be really hungry. you could try to freeze it though (if thats possible).
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18th February 2004	#7
christtjj Yard goes all early rave. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: seattle Posts: 560	do you know if you were using a protools tdm system? if so, it's a hardware based system which utilizes dsp chips on a pci card bus. typically (at least in pt 4.0) there were 4 chips per chip. some plugins use a whole chip. some use part of a chip. others (like some reverb) use more than one chip. some plugins allocate more memory than is necessary for the task at hand. some plugins just take over one chip, leaving only 3 left to use. you get the picture. so back to your issue, you may have just used up all of the chips with running a bunch of compressors and so forth and the reverb might have just crashed the system. the only thing to do, would be to bounce your tracks with compression down and then take all your compressors offline. then the dsp card should be up for the reverb. cheers!
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