Do iMacs and Pro Tools 8 get along?

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Athos

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Not for me....

I'm just trying to see if anyone else has had issues with stops while using Pro Tools 8 on an iMac (late 2009).
I will save you the trouble to walk me through the known fixes. I've tried all the common solultions. I even got more RAM, disabled bluetooth, cleaned out prefs, on and on. Still having the issue. It's a dual processor - and I've tried all the combinations for the Playback engine that I think are possible.
It seems like something is spiking the memory usage, running in the background. Doesn't show up on the system usage viewer. Only on the memory usage graph - a big sharp red spike every few minutes. Maybe that's normal.
Seems worst when I use native instrument pluggins.

Yes, I posted a similar post in "brands"... but this is more a question about the computer - hoping that someone who has a fix will see this. I'm hoping there's something I'm missing, that I can easily fix. I'm at my wits end with it. It works, but the stops are so effing annoying. And sometimes, a track(s) will go silent.

Is Pro Tools 8 just too big for an iMac with 2 processors, and 8 gigs of RAM? (32bit).

Cheers.
 
It shouldn't be. What version of Pro Tools are you on? Have you tried updating to newer versions (of 8?). And if you have the latest update, maybe you should try reverting to an older version and see if that does the trick. Sometimes updates can make things worse.

What version of OSX are you running? You're not running PT in bootcamp (windows) on the mac are you?
 
I have the latest vers. of ProTools.... Mac is the latest vers. too. (10.6.8. or something like that - don't have it in front of me right now).
I'll have to check to see if bootcamp is running. I don't think it is, but if it is, I'm not sure why it would be...
 
I have the latest vers. of ProTools.... Mac is the latest vers. too. (10.6.8. or something like that - don't have it in front of me right now).
I'll have to check to see if bootcamp is running. I don't think it is, but if it is, I'm not sure why it would be...

I replied in your other thread to tell you about 8.0.5 update and possible new maudio drivers.
Are you using them?

Bootcamp is a tool for running windows on a mac. You'd know if you were using it.
Nothing would be working! :p
 
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