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Forum : Producing Help : Mac os x

MarinuZz [nl]
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Hey Guys,,I am using my mac only for music production.. mac tiger is just installed as normaly. I use little screen resolution.. Have ya all got some tips to tweak os x tiger only for music production.. so that those two 2.66ghz processors are fully dedicated to my cubase and not to other not necessary thing.. Because I have a feeling that they arent now..    Peace, 
 
 
 
dtr [nl]
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make sure processor performance is set to high (not auto or low). it s in the 'energy saver' pane of system preferences. besides that, don't run any other programs while producing and you should be fine. 
 
 
 
MarinuZz [nl]
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I will check that.. Because it's strange that the g5 on my school works better. Than my mac pro seems that it have stuttering. With low software use. 
 
 
 
Falcon030 [be]
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on the new mac pro its better to use leopard instead of tiger !on the g5 tiger is faster and performing better on audio and video !leopard is also better for mac pro processor and on audio and video speedings its also more written to the new intels macs !! the g5 is an ibm processor totall different in behavior then the new mac pro's !tiger is not written 100 % for mac pro's  on intel imacs its ok but not  for the apple beast the mac pro ! so the best thing to do is get leopard installed greets    
 
 
 
MarinuZz [nl]
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Heb ik gemerkt.  Leopard staat nu ook zekerzz op mijn verlanglijst. Ik gebruik nu een mac pro, mac op x tiger en focusrite saffire 26i als geluidskaart het is ook behoorlijk instabiel in vergelijking met andere mac systemen waar ik aan gezeten heb qua geluid. Hoop dat ik daar eens een oplossing mee kan vinden. 
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on the new mac pro its better to use leopard instead of tiger !on the g5 tiger is faster and performing better on audio and video !leopard is also better for mac pro processor and on audio and video speedings its also more written to the new intels macs !! the g5 is an ibm processor totall different in behavior then the new mac pro's !tiger is not written 100 % for mac pro's on intel imacs its ok but not for the apple beast the mac pro ! so the best thing to do is get leopard installed greets
 
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Typhique [nl]
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I found some info in my protools manual...
I reckon it'll work just as well with Cubase or any other DAW...
Also you can download a free little application thats will disable the dashboard application so you'll have a little more cpu power left. It's called : Bye Bye Dashboard 

-good luck
 Bart

Well here's the copy paste info: 
Mac System Optimization


Turning Off Energy Saver
To turn off the Energy Saver feature:
1 Choose System Preferences from the Apple
menu and click Energy Saver.
2 Click Sleep and do the following:
• Set the computer sleep setting to Never.
• Set the display sleep setting to Never.
• Deselect “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when
possible” option.

Setting Processor Performance
(Mac G5 Computers and G4 Powerbooks Only)
To set the Processor Performance:
1 Choose System Preferences from the Apple
menu and click Energy Saver.
2 Click Options and set Processor Performance
to Highest.

Disabling Spotlight Indexing
The Mac OS X Spotlight feature indexes files and
folders in the background, affecting system performance.
It is recommended that you disable
Spotlight indexing before using Pro Tools.
To disable Spotlight indexing:
1 Choose System Preferences from the Apple
menu and click Spotlight.
2 In the Spotlight window, click Privacy.
3 To prevent indexing of a drive, drag its icon
from the desktop into the list.

Disabling Spotlight indexing will cause the
Find function in Mac OS X to no longer
work. You will no longer be able to search
for files on drives set to private.

Enabling Journaling for Audio Drives
To yield higher performance from audio drives,
enable journaling.
To enable journaling:
1 Launch the Disk Utility application, located in
Applications/Utilities.
2 Select the volume in the left column of the
Disk Utility window.
3 Click Enable Journaling in the toolbar.

 
 
 
JungleFever [nl]
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Cool gotta check it out !..Enabling Journaling (is that only for Macbook Pro)
Didnt have that option....ezz
 
 
 
Typhique [nl]
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No it's for G5's as well...
I have a G5 dual 2.5 Ghz PowerPC and it's on there...

Open [b]Disk Utility[/b] program... (of "Schijfhulp programma" voor de NL versie)
This is in the [b]utilities[/b] Folder (of "Hulpprogramma's" map als ik me niet vergis)
That is situated in the  "Application" folder (de map waar al je applicaties in staan)
Now select the disk you want to use as your audio drive... and then use:
- or the green button on the top of the screen Labled "Enable Journaling"
- or if the button isn't available (might be because your disk is MS-DOS or UNIX formatted) then use the Erase option and select [b]Volume Format:  Mac OS Extended (Journaled). -->Be sure to backup your data first... because it will format the disk... [/b]
Hope this helped...
 
 
 
JungleFever [nl]
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Ok thats why the enable journaling option was off on my Macbook.
Dunno bout formating when all is running smoothly....Leopard & Live 7.0.7 here!!!