Hi Chuck,
On 28 Mar 2005, at 1:38 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
I have experienced what I think is "audio packets being dropped' when the computer has been in use for a long time and Finale and GPO are working hard. It sounds like machine gun on/off, on/off sound.
No, that's just GPO choking. It does that.
You can probably reduce this problem somewhat by reducing the polyphony (i.e., maximum number of simultaneously sounding notes) on the piano (as well as any other multitimbral patches), as well as using the "Light" version of the piano patch instead of the full-sized version. (It will still probably choke a little at big moments, though.)
To do this, click and hold on the number next to the little eighth notes in the GPO player, then drag down. The number before the slash is the number of currently sounding notes, the number after the slash is the maximum polyphony. For the piano, it's probably set to 64 by default. Click on "64" and drag it down to, say "32" or whatever minimum you find acceptable. Make sure all of your wind instruments are set to a polyphony of 1.
You can also turn off scrolling playback, that helps too. Also try hitting the "bypass" button on the Ambience Reverb (which, obviously, turns it off). And make sure you're not inadvertently loading any of the "wet" versions of the included instruments. In fact, it's probably best to move the folder containing the "wet" instruments to some other location, so you don't accidentally load one of them.
I have no idea what audio interface is in use here. It's simply what's built in to this early G5, single processor 1.8.
That would be "built-in audio".
What do you mean "FW"? Is that Firewire?
Yes. I have a FireWire audio breakout box. I don't plug anything into the audio out jack on my Mac.
If you're not using a FireWire audio breakout box, you don't have to worry about any of the possible complications Hiro warned of.
Question: Will adding considerably more than the existing 1.5 MB of RAM help in keeping things from choking up, as they seem to be doing at the moment?
Possibly, yes, but GPO playback will continue to be problematic due to the Mac-unfriendliness of the Kontakt Player.
Since you know Gary, you might ask him about Kontakt 2.0 (which is supposed to be better-optimized for Mac) and the timeline for bringing that version to GPO.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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