Eric,
Use the "Notation - Lite" JABB instruments. Your G5 iMac (1.8 GHz, I
assume) just isn't fast enough to play back a large number of full-
blooded JABB instruments at once. This is partly because JABB
instruments are MUCH more demanding than GPO instruments and partly
because version 1.x of the Kontakt Player runs like crap on PPC
machines. When Garritan releases a version of JABB that uses the
Kontakt Player 2, you should get better performance.
Adding more RAM will help only slightly. The real problems are the
relatively slow speed of your processor (vs current Intel-based
machines) and the fact that Native Instruments support for Macs is
dreadful.
You should also consider upgrading to Finale 2007, which will allow
you to load JABB instruments directly within Finale as AU plugins,
and contains automatic support for most JABB features.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 29 Dec 2006, at 2:16 PM, ER @ HOME wrote:
Hello all,
After many years, I finally committed and purchased JABB as part
of the recent group buy. I'm a "power user" with Finale (version
1.0 vet) and have been using Reason and soundfonts for playback of
big band charts with reasonable success.
So...I installed JABB and began to play with it...as expected the
individual sounds show a lot of promise, BUT when I try to playback
an existing big band score (a FinMac 2005b file), I get lots of
digital artifacts (pops, sizzles), etc.with only a brass section
loaded...or even with just saxophones and rhythm. I'm working on an
iMac G5 with 1.25 GB of RAM...
I've tried opening up the latency both in Garritan Jazz (which I
assume also affects GPO Studio since there is nowhere to adjust
latency in the GPO Studio preferences) AND opened up the latency
all the way in my digital audio interface. Hmm...maybe that's part
of the issue?
In the Garritan JABB forum, JABB wizard Tom Hopkins mentioned that
he did all those great sounding JABB demos with less than 1.5 GB of
RAM, so I'm hoping there's a solution available with my current
rig. If not, I'm suppose I'm willing to spend to bread to max out
my RAM to 2 GB if that will cure the problem.
Any help or advice would be gratefully received. I would love to
make JABB part of my regular toolkit if possible.
Thanks and best wishes for a great 2007,
Eric Richards
ERIC RICHARDS
Composer/Arranger
Trombone/Music Technology
+++++++++++++++++
Fremont NE
USA
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