Performance of PT on notebooks

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I'm sure your waves stuff is legit so try one of these.

http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1622

Max Arwood

"beauchampy" <beauchampy@gmailNOSPAMREMOVEME.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Sony Vaio VGN-B1XP (1.7ghz Centrino, 512mb ram, 5400rpm 60gb hard
> drive).
> I've been running Pro Tools 6.9, and have been very pleased that sessions
> which have pushed my 3.0ghz P4 to the limit also play on this machine,
> although it takes a 20 seconds of waiting between pressing space and
> playback on PT actually starting. During this time the hard drive light
(on
> the laptop) goes a bit crazy - even if I'm running the session from my
> firewire 400 drive.
> These sessions are usually up to 30 tracks of audio, probably as much as 8
> aux inputs, and as many as 10-15 real time plugins (compressors, eq's,
> reverbs - mostly waves bundle).
>
> If I start a new session and use rewire applications such as reason and
> ableton live. They do not pose too many problems, they work smoothly.
> If I start using a plugin such as Sampletank XL or Kontak 2, the amount of
> waiting and hard drive light blinkage is ridiculous and renders the
plugins
> & PT pratically useless...
>
> I'm thinking about putting in another 512mb stick of ram, and maybe even
> swapping the hard drive for a 2.5" IBM 7200rpm drive.
>
> Anyone else experience difficulties with performance with their laptop and
> using Pro Tools? Anyone tried a faster disk?
>
> I thought my performance problems would be solved using the external disk
> but I still see alot of blinking going on with the internal disk when
> playing back a session.
>
> I've done a few usual tricks such as turning off many of the visulisation
> features in windows, although I'm sure there are a few more tweaks I could
> try.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Beauchampy
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