Hi Chuck,
I'm sure you've probably already done this but just in case...are you
running the latest version of GPO Studio? (v. 1.2)
Also, in addition to all of the great suggestions that Hiro and Darcy
have given...you can also try opening your crash log files and seeing
if there is some background process that is crashing
somewhere...or...look for CrashReporter in Activity Monitor and see
if it is active (you can change views in the drop down menu in the
activity monitor window to toggle between active processes and
inactive processes among others.)
To check your crash log files:
Applications>Utilities>Console>Click on the Logs button>Click on the
triangle next to ~/Library/Logs>Click on triangle next to
CrashReporter. Then look through the logs and see if any of them are
being currently written to.
I had this happen to me with a process called dmnotifyd (a dot mac
process) which was was crashing at the time...my system was showing
some odd behavior and my backup program kept hanging up. My iDisk
wasn't mounting correctly and/or it lost connection to the .Mac
server. After I reset my iDisk settings my system was happy again.
A couple of other thoughts: are you running Quickeys and have you
updated to the most recent version? (v. 3.02...must be done for
Tiger) Did you use Carbon Copy Cloner for a backup program in
Panther? If so, did you have it set to backup automatically? CCC no
longer works in Tiger so if it is still installed and you did a
straight upgrade to Tiger something could be crashing there (look to
see if psync is running in your Acitivity monitor...)
You can also start up on your Tiger install disk and run Disk Utility
from the install disk...run verify disk (First Aid Tab) and if
necessary repair disk...
Also, the ever important repair permissions which you can run from
Disk Utility..you don't have to be running off of the startup disk to
do this.
Lastly (I promise :-)) There are maintenance scripts that run on the
computer at night that are built into the OS. If one is in the habit
of turning the computer off or if it goes to sleep at night, they
don't run. Also, with Tiger there is a bug with the scheduling of
these scripts...so if you don't restart your computer daily, the
scripts may not run.
I have my machine set up to wake itself up in the middle of the night
via Energy Saver so Cocktail can run (Tiger version is out and very
fast!) I have set up Cocktail to run on it's
scheduler...(pilot...making sure run cron scripts box is checked.)
Then my backup program runs on it's scheduler and puts the machine
back to sleep when it has finished running.
-K
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
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