{"id":161,"date":"2009-01-07T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2025-01-10T06:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T06:30:23","slug":"ok-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/ok-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"OK Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might recall I bought a new computer, an iMac, about a year ago. The plan was to use is as the centerpiece of my recording studio. But ProTools didn\u2019t run on 10.5 so that led to a big OS reinstall. I finally got ProTools, my Box and my MOTU MIDI interface all working together on the Mac under 10.4, only find out that SampleTank, which is my main onboard sampler, wasn\u2019t compatible with Intel Macs and I\u2019d have to get a whole new (as opposed to an upgrade) version of SampleTank. So that kind of bottomed out here. I did manage to install Boot Camp and Windows XP, but by the time I was done with all that I just wanted to get on with making music, so I went back to using my laptop again.<\/p>\n

Well that laptop has been acting funny, and I don\u2019t know why, and I went thru all kinds of pain to replace the hard drive last month. So over xmas vacation I finally got around to installing ProTools, SampleTank and all my samples, and the MIDI software on the XP partition of my Mac, and doing all the authorization rigamarole.<\/p>\n

All was looking good, until I went to work on some actual music. Then to my dismay I discovered that after a few seconds the thing came to screeching halt. I tried again and it was the same thing. <\/span>It was completely unusable. So I googled \u201cprotools xp bootcamp\u201d and found lots of other people experiencing similar problems. Well misery loves company I guess. I learned that I probably needed something called the \u201cmicrosoft dual core hotfix\u201d so I googled that and it led me to this link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/896256<\/a><\/p>\n

Shawnuff I installed the patch and now everything is working splendidly and completely copasetic. The one caveat is I have to turn off wifi on the mac, which is something I never had to do on my laptop. The good news is that mac is a way more powerful machine. Mixes that would max out my old machine are only using about 40 percent of the CPU. Also, with the big monitor, I can display a full 24 tracks worth of faders without having to scroll! So a longstanding goal has been realized and I\u2019m back in business in the recording front.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s a good thing too. I\u2019m in the middle of a new song called \u201cEarthbound\u201d. Or maybe it will be called \u201cPerihelion\u201d. After a month of downtime I can finally get back to it.\/p>The next problem is that if the machine sleeps while XP it kinda crashes when it wakes up, and then reboots in the MacOS. I think Microsoft has a fix for that too.<\/p>\n

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You might recall I bought a new computer, an iMac, about a year ago. The plan was to use is as the centerpiece of my recording studio. But ProTools didn\u2019t run on 10.5 so that led to a big OS reinstall. I finally got ProTools, my Box and my MOTU MIDI interface all working together … Continue reading “OK Computer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}