I have an eMAC w/ 700 mhz / 512 ram. Pro Tools LE has always worked OK. With a lot of tracks and plug ins i started to run into error 9136- I guess CPU was overloaded. Now i have Reason which can barely play demo songs, and when i run it with Pro Tools I get error # 9128 (running out of CPU processor power) My question is, if I upgrade my ram to 1024 (max that will fit ) will i see a difference. I am aware that i need a bigger processor! However i cannot afford a new computer right now. Can anyone please advise me if more ram will help my processor out/ is it worth buying another 512 ram?
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Adding RAM will probably not improve performance noticeably. The problem here is the slow CPU. You can confirm this by running Activity Monitor, and observing that there's free memory available, and that 'page outs' doesn't increase steadily and rapidly. Adding RAM, when it's not really being used, doesn't improve performance.
Will it help me run more audio tracks in Pro Tools (More ram)? Pro Tools will tell me I have to many plug - ins when i am not using any, and I do use a lot of audio tracks w/ big long files. If i am correct, don't those audio files run from my ram?
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Adding audio tracks doesn't increase RAM usage much, and the size of the audio files doesn't really matter - the entire file isn't loaded into RAM. As I wrote above, use Activity Monitor to watch your RAM usage. If 'page outs' doesn't increase steadily while running ProTools, adding RAM won't make things faster.
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RE: eMAC w/ small processor-need advice
