Hi Chuck,
Jerry's right, just quit GPO Studio when that happens, and everything
should go back to normal. Although I have only seen what you describe
once, and that was on 10.3.9 (I'm waiting for 10.4.2 before installing
Tiger). And I frequently leave GPO Studio running in the background
for days.
Everything not only slows down, but sound, keyboard and mouse
response, become intermittent to the point of uselessness, and a
restart is required.
Normally, that's a sign of RAM saturation, but you have plenty of RAM.
However, it's possible there could be a memory leak in one of the apps
you are using? When this happens, are you running anything other than
GPO Studio and Finale? Any third-party utilities running in the
background?
The UI for GPO Studio does suck. I've never tried double-clicking on a
studio setup, I just double-click on the GPO Studio app, then select
Open from the File menu (which, for some godawful reason, is not even
mapped to cmd-O!) and pick the setup I need from there. Then it asks
me if I want to save the (noexistent) changes the existing (empty)
setup -- grr.
If you can get Gary to do something about these annoyances, that would
be great.
and thumpy pizz. bass (kind of awful)
A couple of things you can do to (somewhat) alleviate the awfulness --
adjust the pan so that it's centered (instead of 92% right) and adjust
the duration from 50% to 75-100% (depending on the tempo).
It's never going to sound like Oscar Pettiford, or, well, _you_ (at
least, not yet!) but it's much better than the default settings.
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?
During playback, yes. Sitting idle, absolutely not.
- Darcy
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