I am having problems with my Reason 3.0 running on my brand new macbook with 2gb of ram. It skips when I play any of the files. I know my macbook should be able to handle this. It also skips when I use fruity loops through parallels with plenty of ram and other settings. Is there anything I need to be tweeking?
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How do I check? Also if it helps my friend has the same exact macbook as me with reason and he has no problems at all. I went as far as to reformat and it still does it. Do I have a defective mac?
At the bottom left of the rack or sequencer window there's a little bar scale that shows how much the cpu is being used.
If it hits the red (right hand side of scale) it'll have problems.
EDIT: I doubt you have a defective MacBook, it may just need some tweaking of the Audio/midi settings in Reason.
EDIT 2: You are using 3.0.5 aren't you?
I am running 3.0 but that shouldn't be a problem because he is also. And I have the same problem with fruity loops through parallels. It has to be something configured wrong in the OS I would think.
How do I get to the audio/midi settings in os x? Sorry about all the questions
No worries with all the questions.
Audio/midi should be under System Prferences
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Oops, I had accidently left it at that. I had changed it around and hadn't seen a different really. It was originally at 512 and still doing it. Any other ideas
?Oops, I had accidently left it at that. I had changed it around and hadn't seen a different really. It was originally at 512 and still doing it. Any other ideas
AHH! Got it to work, I set it really high and now I am good. Thanks for your help! Good to know there are people out there that will help with macs haha.
Slowly lower the latency and see how low you can get it without problems. Then leave it at that.
Have fun.
yes, processing audio through your computer sound card just adds to the work that your processor has to do. using one of the usb audio interfaces and i guarantee your audio wont skip in reason.
im use the mbox and my brother has the m-audio fastrack pro, i can open up to five different reason songs and play them all at the same time without any dropout or skipping. my brother who uses fruityloops more, told me his plugin and track count increased drastically allowing him to create more complex songs.
besides the audio interfaces also provide inputs and outputs so you can record vocals, guitars and just about anything that has a 1/4inch or 1/8th inch audio plug (even rca on the fastrack pro)
im use the mbox and my brother has the m-audio fastrack pro, i can open up to five different reason songs and play them all at the same time without any dropout or skipping. my brother who uses fruityloops more, told me his plugin and track count increased drastically allowing him to create more complex songs.
besides the audio interfaces also provide inputs and outputs so you can record vocals, guitars and just about anything that has a 1/4inch or 1/8th inch audio plug (even rca on the fastrack pro)
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Have you updated Reason 3 to the latest Universal update. If not, you are emulating Reason instead, and will see a major performance decrease, which is most likely unplayable due to skipping and CPU usage overload.
Have you updated Reason 3 to the latest Universal update. If not, you are emulating Reason instead, and will see a major performance decrease, which is most likely unplayable due to skipping and CPU usage overload.
it doesn't mean your mbox is "processing" audio. native systems, like PTLE, use the computer CPU to manage all audio tasks, like summing and plug-ins and bussing and etc....
all that mbox is doing, on playback, is converting bits to analog. it has nothing to do with track counts or plug-ins.
there are systems which offload processing. PT HD does this. those UAD cards do it. the metric halo boxes can do this. but the mbox and m-audio interfaces do not.
i shouldnt have made a broad generaliztion about audio processing, misinformation is more dangerous than no information.
Just like installing an Nvidia graphics card in your computer allows you to play your video games with full graphics, rather than choppy cpu based graphics, getting a usb audio interface has a simillar effect on audio.
USB bus is used for audio in /out instead of CPU bus to soundcard eliminating some of the choppy-ness, more robust dedicated buffers, better a/d converters, and of course multiple audio inputs.
also note asio sound device drivers provide lower latency thresholds than non-asio, (i have noticed that the core-audio drivers in os10.4 are getting pretty good too)