M-Audio MobilePre USB Drivers settings with G4 PB 1.33

Hey Neil,
try 256 if you having clicks with 128.
above that you will have notice latency.
with a firewire interface you should be able to have 128 or 64 easy.
Also, try to freeze tracks after recording, to free the cpu since you don't have that much ram.
Remeber that you internal drive is 5400rmp (slow to audio),
a 7200 rmp external drive for audio is a must.
best regards,

Jorge

Rec at 256,
and with only 4 tracks it should be ok too,
if it stresses too much bring the buffer at 512 for the mix.
Say 1 & 2 , you only need Phantom while rec the mics.
then you can turn if off.

Jorge

Hi, I'm new to logic and the forum but with a similar powerbook I wanted to see how far I could push it without having problems.

With 28 audio tracks and 3 instruments with maybe 8 reverbs, compression, flanger and eq while playing an additional audio instrument my CPU AUDIO meter never goes above 60-70%. The I/O meter peaks every so often but I don't notice any ill effects.

I've set the I/O buffer from 0-1024 and larger disk buffer checked with not much of a difference. The only thing that affected anything was having cpu performance set to automatic in the system preferences/energy settings.

When you say "cracks" do you mean latency while recording a guitar, etc.? I'm really curious to find out because I'm shopping for an interface to record guitar with amp modeling and have been told firewire's the way to go. The TC Electronics KONNECT 24D comes highly recommended because it has onboard DSP and Hardware monitoring which does'nt use CPU power.

Well it depends,
everyone as it own tastes,
but around $400,
you have the M-audio FW 410 or Focusrite Saffire, ammong others,
this last one as 2 (xlr/jack) first class focusrite mic preamps,
24/192Khz dynamic range 110dB, Spdif, Midi, 8 outs, 2 headphone outs,
and onboard DSP (focusrite plug-in suite) I heard some good recording on that.
go to a seller take your laptop and try it out.

Jorge

Not that I'm aware,
no.
There's maybe issues if you're trying to record 24 tracks live at 192K, (and that it's impossible with your machine anyway)
but for simple use just dasy chain it,
I haven't had any problems recording with both FW (audio interface and HD)
cheers,

Jorge

Hey strat,
great choice too,
it as ADAT optical in /outs,
great effects too.
It's in the $500 range
cheers,

Jorge