If I were to buy a used mac g4 tower off of ebay to run DP4, what is
the minimum speed processor I would need? Do I need a duel or single
processor? What about RAM?

I am not looking to do too much. I just need some extra trakcs to
supplement my 24-track analog machine, and I have run into some
midi/beat clock issues that I need a solution for. Probably won't use
alot of plug-ins, probably won't run alot of tracks, and will be
mixing using a real console.

Thanks for any advice.

Matt Talbott
gwrecordrecorders.com

Matt wrote
If I were to buy a used mac g4 tower off of ebay to run DP4, what is
the minimum speed processor I would need? Do I need a duel or single
processor? What about RAM?

If I remember correctly you will need OSX for DP4 (but I'm not sure) I run DP3
on an old 400Mhz G4 and OS9 with no trouble at all (except lower track count's)
I've less than 500Megs of RAM but you should aim for 500Megs or 1Gig. DP is
best run with MOTU hardware (I'm using a 24i), the price of used duelies are
quite low now so you might want to look at one of those.

Raymond wrote:

Matt wrote

If I were to buy a used mac g4 tower off of ebay to run DP4, what is
the minimum speed processor I would need? Do I need a duel or single
processor? What about RAM?


If I remember correctly you will need OSX for DP4 (but I'm not sure) I run DP3
on an old 400Mhz G4 and OS9 with no trouble at all (except lower track count's)
I've less than 500Megs of RAM but you should aim for 500Megs or 1Gig. DP is
best run with MOTU hardware (I'm using a 24i), the price of used duelies are
quite low now so you might want to look at one of those.

I have a G4-933 I use on DP4 (OSX), it's very responsive, and of course,
I can overload it, but not routinely.

I ran DP3 (OS9) on this and it performed similarly. I've heard reports
that on G4 400's that OSX slows it down. I haven't noticed any
significant slowness on the 933 in OSX.

He's right, though, get a dual G4 and run it in Panther (OSX 10.3).

As they saiud get a DUAL Processor G4 for DP4. and a minimum of 1 Gig
of memory is recommended.

and when I say Dual Processor I mean Dual 800 or better anything less
is just fast enuff to track, but not much else.



On 2004-05-11 14:41:59 -0400, (matt t.) said:

If I were to buy a used mac g4 tower off of ebay to run DP4, what is
the minimum speed processor I would need? Do I need a duel or single
processor? What about RAM?

I am not looking to do too much. I just need some extra trakcs to
supplement my 24-track analog machine, and I have run into some
midi/beat clock issues that I need a solution for. Probably won't use
alot of plug-ins, probably won't run alot of tracks, and will be
mixing using a real console.

Thanks for any advice.

Matt Talbott
gwrecordrecorders.com

Bryan Giles wrote:
As they saiud get a DUAL Processor G4 for DP4. and a minimum of 1 Gig of
memory is recommended.

and when I say Dual Processor I mean Dual 800 or better anything less is
just fast enuff to track, but not much else.


A single G4-933 is fast enough to do a lot "else", so I would think the dual 800
should be fine. Last project: 19 tracks active (a couple more muted), about 12
instances of various EQ, reverb, gate, compression, about 10 tracks automated,
external hardware loop, with the CPU at about 25%. Surfing the web at the same
time.

SO'Neill wrote
A single G4-933 is fast enough to do a lot "else", so I would think the dual
800
should be fine. Last project: 19 tracks active (a couple more muted), about
12
instances of various EQ, reverb, gate, compression, about 10 tracks
automated,
external hardware loop, with the CPU at about 25%. Surfing the web at the
same
time.

I can get away with about 12-16 tracks, EQ and automation on all, a handful of
comps and maybe two Aux's with a total of 4 verb's and or delay's. All that
will pretty much max my 400Mhz chip, after I added a stick of RAM (from 192 to
320) awhile back, it helped a tad with sluggishness.