Hi Karen, Darcy, Hiro et al,
It seems you guys are likely to be right!
GPO has been running overnight - without the Formac TV, and it and my
Mac have remained stable, with the GPO usage remaining at about 16%
in the activity monitor. So all those background crashes of the
Formac software seem to have been interfering with the operation of
other things. I'm not sure I am privvy to exactly how that happens,
but it's not counterintuitive to understand that it might be a
possibility.
Maybe Formac will fix this, but for the moment, it seems GPO is not
the culprit.
Sorry about that misleading complaint.
Now I've forgotten who else said he was having the same problem. Was
it Ken Durling? Whoever it is should also look elsewhere "under the
hood" for a conflict with GPO.
I'll use the links you guys suggested to find good music when I'm not
attempting to make my own.
Nice to have friends.
Many thanks,
Chuck
On Jun 12, 2005, at 1:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
........and there is going to be a Tiger update soon, according to
an email I received from Gary a few days ago.
Hi Chuck,
Thank you for your kind words...and thank you for the information
that the Tiger update is on its way soon. That is good to know and
will hopefully clear up some of the problems you are having.
......I did find the crash log files listed below, and there were
many crashes listed for the Formac Studio TV that sits in the
corner of my screen, keeping me company while I do stuff that
doesn't require all of my attention. So I quit that application.
I think that may be the timer app that is crashing...it is one of
the Formac processes that runs in the background (or is supposed to
run!) There are issues with Formac startup too apparently under
Tiger. I have heard that setting the Formac Studio to launch at
login helps but I'm not sure how effective that really is. The
best thing is probably, as Darcy said, to not run Formac at all
while you are using GPO....(I'm sorry :-( ) You may have to
actually restart the computer too after you quit Formac because
some background processes can keep causing problems even after you
quit the "parent" application. But, also as Darcy mentioned,
podcasts are nice! Here is a link for some dashboard widgets that
you may like!
<http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/radio_podcasts/>
Note: it is a good idea to uncheck the box in Safari
preferences>General where is says...Open '"safe" files after
downloading...as a precaution even though there are currently no
damaging viruses for Mac...
So the question I have, asked in what I imagine to be some
naivete, is (please excuse the split infinitive): what is
happening during the period between starting GPO and the time it
decides to hog the CPU (some hours - maybe 24 or so), and is this
something GPO or Kontact can fix? Or can I?
I think that I would have to say that I second everything Darcy and
Hiro were talking about in previous posts....I think they are on
the money as far as this goes and I don't have anything more to
add. As Darcy mentioned, I also open my GPO documents from within
the GPO application rather than double clicking on the document to
launch GPO. Not sure if this makes a huge difference but it may
allow GPO to start up more quickly.
Finally, I'm wondering if the Ambience reverb plugin within GPO is
adding to the CPU problems over time. You can open the Ambience
window and turn the Quality/CPU percentage down (and set the "room"
to be smaller too perhaps?) see if that helps...may not sound as
good, but may help with CPU usage.
That's all that I can think of that you can do to remedy this
(aside from the restarting that has already been mentioned.) The
rest I think is up to Garritan and NI. Again, hopefully the Tiger
update will help. I'll look forward to hearing what the Garritan
tech has to say. Thanks for doing that legwork and sharing it with
the list!
I may have mentioned that the next version of MOTU's MachFive will
work as a standalone application with Finale. I'm looking forward
to that and I'm curious as to whether anyone on the list knows
anymore about this upcoming release?
From a personal standpoint (sitpoint?), learning to control Finale
has taken quite a while, and the information needed to use it
takes up considerable space in this old CPU of a brain of mine.
Not sure I'm buying this Chuck! From your posts, it seems that you
have quite "the ability to swing" with Finale and computers too!
Hope you are having a good weekend!
Take care,
Karen
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