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spencer
November 18th 03, 10:55 PM
hi,
this is my first post, so here goes: i've just recently bought an
m-box, and am running on an apple ibook (256 mb, os x 10.2.4, 900mhz
g3). now, when i first installed it, everything ran fine, until a few
days later when whenever i opened up a session there would be no
regular audio, just a crackling sound where the tracks should be (sort
of: KKKKCCCHHHHHHH). i updated to pro tools 6.1.2 (i was originally on
6), and updated the core audio drivers and this seemed to return
things to normal for about two weeks, i had no real problems at all
(except for every now and then - about once every time i worked on a
session - getting a 'increase hardware buffer size' message) until
today when it reverted to its old tricks and started making a grating,
crackling sound where the audio should be. i can't seem to figure out
how to get around this, no re-starting or shutting down seems to fix
it. i know that i'm running with below the recommended amount of RAM,
but is that really the problem? why would it then work sometimes?
please give me some advice, or tell me if i'm the only one having this
problem! it's driving me nuts.

Chris Smalt
November 19th 03, 12:44 AM
spencer wrote:

> hi,
> this is my first post, so here goes: i've just recently bought an
> m-box, and am running on an apple ibook (256 mb, os x 10.2.4, 900mhz
> g3). now, when i first installed it, everything ran fine, until a few
> days later when whenever i opened up a session there would be no
> regular audio, just a crackling sound where the tracks should be (sort
> of: KKKKCCCHHHHHHH). i updated to pro tools 6.1.2 (i was originally on
> 6), and updated the core audio drivers and this seemed to return
> things to normal for about two weeks, i had no real problems at all
> (except for every now and then - about once every time i worked on a
> session - getting a 'increase hardware buffer size' message) until
> today when it reverted to its old tricks and started making a grating,
> crackling sound where the audio should be. i can't seem to figure out
> how to get around this, no re-starting or shutting down seems to fix
> it. i know that i'm running with below the recommended amount of RAM,
> but is that really the problem? why would it then work sometimes?
> please give me some advice, or tell me if i'm the only one having this
> problem! it's driving me nuts.


Check out the firmware updater on
http://www.digidesign.com/download/mbox/ Maybe it makes a difference.
You can work around the memory issue by booting in OS 9 - it requires
less memory for the system and for the applications. I used Mbox + PT
5.1 with 256 MB without a hitch booting in OS 9 on a 500 MHz iBook. Now
I have the same 900 MHz one you have, but didn't get around to
installing the Digi stuff yet.


Chris
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