It is currently Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:29 am


Running on a 4gb macbk pro w/ tiger - is it time to upgrade?

Buying or building computers for Hauptwerk, recommendations, troubleshooting computer hardware issues.
  • Author
  • Message
Offline
User avatar

britokusa

Member

  • Posts: 103
  • Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:23 pm

Running on a 4gb macbk pro w/ tiger - is it time to upgrade?

PostSat Aug 29, 2009 11:11 am

Hi
I am running Hauptwerk succesfully on a 4gb macbook pro with TIGER 10.4.11, I do have leopard but when installed with 4GB my polyphony was completely messed up when running the skinner (dry version) so I went back to Tiger, I think I was one of the first to report this issue. Was this problem ever fixed? Now with snow leopard coming out I am wondering if I should install that into my 4gb machine or if I will just have the same problems. Do i need to upgrade to to 8gb on a new macbool pro series to be able to run snow leopard and still run hauptwerk with at least the polyphony i get with Tiger. It would be nice to be able run current software but the performance of hauptwerk comes first.

Thanks Jon
Offline
User avatar

B. Milan

Site Admin

  • Posts: 4393
  • Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:15 am
  • Location: Sarasota, FL. USA

Re: Running on a 4gb macbk pro w/ tiger - is it time to upgrade?

PostMon Aug 31, 2009 3:00 pm

Hello Jon,

Tiger wouldn't allow you to have accessed all of your memory, rather it was limited to around 2.7-3GB or so since it was a 32 bit operating system running Hauptwerk 32 bit. If you want to access more RAM then you would need either Leopard 10.5.6 or higher with the Hauptwerk 64 bit OS X version running on Intel 64 bit processors. Any polyphony issues you had wouldn't have been due only to RAM, but alsothe processor speed. If you load an instrument in the proper amount of RAM then it should perform well assuming you have set your polyphony limits properly. If you exceeded the amount of RAM that the operating system would allow then you would also get poor performance since the operating system would have paged the data to the hard drive when physical memory has been exceeded which will always give very poor results and make it seem that your polyphony suffers.

Be sure that you have a read through this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4539

about the Mac OS X 64 bit version of Hauptwerk (which has of course since been released) to understand the memory allocations for OS X Leopard.

In general, we would recommend that you upgrade and to use the 64 bit version of Hauptwerk to allow more memory to be used and to achieve better performance. If you can install 8GB then that will certainly help, although the Skinner can be run successfully in 4GB with the proper memory saving settings. Be sure to read the memory requirements for the Skinner here:

http://www.milandigitalaudio.com/skinne ... ements.htm
Brett Milan
Owner
MILAN DIGITAL AUDIO

Return to Computer hardware / specs

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests