[macintologist]

I have a PB 12" 867mhz 640 MB of ram. Sometimes I use Garageband with a midi keyboard to just for midi playback. The piano and guitar sounds on Garageband are the best anywhere. I have Menumeters installed to see how much CPU garageband uses when Garageband is generating notes.

Everytime I played my CPU would go up to 80% or so. Geee I thought, that's a lot, does this piano sound really need all that CPU? Now my PB fan is gonna turn on faster than an it should (thanks again Apple ) So I did something really simple. I minimized the Garageband window, changed to the Finder or something else, and viola, the CPU use during playback of a piano was down to 10% or so! Woohoo, now I can play the piano on Garageband all day without hearing that damn PB fan come on. Sorry Apple, your stupid fan coming on at 52 C won't bother me now. Screw OS 10.3.2

[ryju]

Originally posted by macintologist:
Screw OS 10.3.2

Hiyooooo

[macintologist]

bump (in case someone would find this useful)

[Moonray]

You don't want to bump this every weekend now, do you?

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[Todd Madson]

I was just at a CompUSA here in Minnesota and quickly banged together a track using
a G5 with Garageband and a MIDI keyboard and it was great. 14 tracks of software
instruments and no problems.

My G4/400 is a lot slower of course so any tip helps. Thanks.

[macintologist]

Originally posted by Moonray:
You don't want to bump this every weekend now, do you?

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useless post. Todd found it useful.

[badtz]

turn on the master track, and choose that track when you're 'idle' and the cpu usage drops also.

[Moonray]

Originally posted by macintologist:
useless post. Todd found it useful.

Useless comment. There is a search function people can use and if each thread the original poster might think it's useful got bumped weekly we had a chaos here. Think.

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