On Jun 10, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Gerald Berg wrote:
Yah! Here too ---but reboot unnecessary -- quit GPO (still pain I
know but much less than reboot) and start it up again -- that
should fix it.
Jerry
Thanks, Jerry.
I may have done that too - and forgotten that it's a short cut to
solving the problem. Still, wouldn't it be good to know what's
causing it, and maybe how to repair it permanently? Perhaps this is
a problem of Kontact's integration on Mac OS. I keep hoping for
updates (Kontact -whatever that is, and why should I have to know
about it at all? - or Finale 2006) to solve this irritation.
Chuck
On 10-Jun-05, at 1:40 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
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
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