Mac/dp And Giga, latency- what is the answer Options

[monkeymike]

I am tring to cure an ongoing latency problem........ok I know someone out there has the same set up:

G4 350
OS9.2 .....trying to decide on the switch to 10
running DP 3 through digi 001
connected to a P4 1.6 MHZ for giga sounds
with wavecenter pci sound card

I have played around with the buffer in Pro Tools Le- but not sure
What should I get first?

os x?
new audio cards?
trash dp and get logic or cubase sx?
dp 4?

[dixiechicken]

Partial answer concerning switch to OS X.
G4 350 is on the slow side of things for OS X.

Make certain you have at least 500 Mb ram and fast harddrives
( Ata 100/133 7200/rpms )

( if you dont want to go the SCSI-route == expensive )
Things will be pretty slow anyway.

Cheers: Dixiechicken

[monkeymike]

Would that explain the latency I am currently getting- do I need to upgrade to a faster machine to avoide latencey to the giga machine? It's a pain trying to write because of the latency.........

I have better luck in Reason but the sound aren't up to par with the giga
kontakt hasen't been much happier on my mac
maybe I should just use my PC and toss the MAc out??!!

how will SCSI improve things if the computer is too slow?

thanks for the post!!

[azusa]

The best solution for you is to get a CPU upgrade card.
I had G4/500, and now it runs 1.4 GHz. You can upgrade to a dual CPU if you have more money.
The other solutions seems pointless because you going to see the same problems again.

About the OSX, I figure it going to cost me $3000-4000 for all my plugins and apps, and a lot of them still not OSX compatible yet.
I still have to learn the damn UNIX. May be it's time for me to switch to XP

[monkeymike]

hey Azusa,

I didn't know I could get an upgrade card- that would probably solve a lot of the latency problems

Programs and sounds are expensive- I guess it is worth waiting a while to switch to OSX?

I am still contemplating using my PC exclusively- if I can get giga and cubase sx to speak to each other.......otherwize I might switch to kontakt

whichever runs smoother and has less latency!

cheers

[dixiechicken]

To Azuza!

It really isn't any harder to switch to OS X than switch to XP.
If your plugins is NOT OS X compatible, they are XP compatible either, no.
( assuming from your post they are OS 9 compatible )

With OS X you get a stable system, with XP you get a stable system if you're lucky.
You can learn some unix-cmds for OS X at your leisure. Most of the *nix underpinnings are
hidden from "ordinary" users. ( dont mean any disrespect by "ordinary" )

I you like to tweak your system & preferences & what not, unix/linux/OS X - is the way to go.
Install & compile your own custom-apps is really easy.

Windoze systems are NOT very suitable for demanding video/audio work. The NT-family OS:es
are notorious for beeing picky about the underlying hardware they are running on, SCSI-cards are perhaps the prime example of this. ( NT-family == NT, W2K, XP, W2.003K )

Cheers: Dixiechicken