Audio Skipping in recording and playback

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Hello, we have been able to reproduce the SoundTrackPro issue here.

It does appear to be isolated to Leopard and certain G5 Powermacs.
We currently have no solution other than using Tiger on those machines
with SoundTrackPro.

I will let you know when I find out anything more regarding this issue.

Best regards,

David Paulson
Apple, Inc

I'm running STP 1.1 on a MacBookPro 2.33 with 3 GB RAM.

I've recently experienced some major skipping and slow performance in STP, and also a little bit of skipping in iTunes. At this point STP is unusable.

I've already zapped the PRAM and cleared the caches. No change.

Hi there... Welcome to the club... I have tried each and every suggestion posted above, along with myriad others to no avail. Only once, the first time, I tossed the cache files did the problem resolve, for less than one minute of playback.

My suggestion is simple: don't waste your time trying to fix this issue. I've been having to use my MBP for all Soundtrack Pro needs for the past four months - which is far from ideal, but at least it works.

Apple: congratulations! you're about to get a MacPro 8-Core sale partially because of how poorly Leopard/FCSP2 works on my Quad G5. I use STP a lot, and the recent shoddy performance with Leopard as it applies to Final Cut Studio is embarrassing, especially when a client says "wow - you have to use your laptop for this?"

STP was working great on my MacBook Pro up until about the last Leopard update.

I had the same problem, and I solved it this way:
I got a new internal HDD, partitioned it, and put the TIGER OS. I updated the Tiger to the fullest extent, and a fresh install of FC Studio 2 in the smaller partition. I had to also update the FCP to the highest level so it could read my recent work. I left the other partition for data.
Beware that if you already have a second drive, and Leopard is on it, you'll wind up having to wipe the drive to go back to Tiger.
This will get me by till Apple sends out an update. They seem to be aware of the problem.

I too solved the problem today by purchasing an 8-core system.. Awaiting arrival of 16g of ECC ram and a couple of 10,000 RPM drives for slot 1 & 2, and two 1TB drives for bays 3 & 4... (apple charges way too much for these items)

That should work just fine. I've just grown tired of the Quad G5 / Leopard interoperability issues...

Will let you know if I encounter any audio issues when the new system is built and installed...

Will keep the G5 though - just not for any audio issues, until it's fixed...