Hi folks,
I have asked about this before, and not been able to resolve the
problem despite suggestions from Darcy and Hiro, so I simply put up
with it and re-boot whenever necessary. But there's something wrong,
and I think it has to do with GPO. I'd like to understand it better,
so I'm describing it again in the hope of gleaning something useful
from people who know more about computers "under the hood" than I do.
G 5 with newly installed mucho RAM (3.5 GB) which I thought might
help but didn't. Tiger OS.
I run GPO, which takes two double clicks to open - one for the GPO
Studio, and another for the specific set of sounds. Then I open
Finale, which also, stubbornly, takes two starts; one to get the
program running and another to open the file. I can't remember if
this reluctant and annoying behavior started with Tiger or with the
installation of GPO in Panther (sorry).
I am only using a half a dozen samples - bassoons as a poor
substitute for saxes, trumpets, trombones, grand piano (very nice -
seems to me), and thumpy pizz. bass (kind of awful). No strings etc.
at the moment, though I don't know if these sounds are lurking in the
background and using up processing power, since the inner workings
of this are mysterious to me.
Things then run OK for awhile, maybe as long as 24 hours, but
eventually the computer begins to choke up and stutter. Everything
not only slows down, but sound, keyboard and mouse response, become
intermittent to the point of uselessness, and a restart is required.
This then solves the problem for another similar period.
I have learned to look at the activity monitor, though I'm not sure I
understand all its implications. One thing, however, seems awry, and
that is that GPO is hogging between 65 and 75% of the CPU. Does that
seem right?
I may be naive with regard to the integration of some kind of
acceptable "sketch" sounds with Finale (I'm not trying to get much
more than that out of this), but it does seem to me that I am not
alone in wanting to be able to access better than GM sounds and
attach them to Finale in a simple
setup process that will work seamlessly in the background. From a
personal standpoint (sitpoint?), learning to control Finale has taken
quite a while, and the information needed to use it takes up
considerable space in this old CPU of a brain of mine. I'd love to
avoid the need to learn a bunch of other arcane things just to get
better than GM playback.
I'll forward a copy of this to Gary Garritan and ask him to send it
on to his programming person to see if some light can be shed from
their end.
TIA for your thoughts.
Chuck
Chuck Israels
230 North Garden Terrace
Bellingham, WA 98225-5836
phone (360) 671-3402
fax (360) 676-6055
www.chuckisraels.com
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