OSX Tweaks and Adjustments?
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- KVRist
- 39 posts since 22 Jan, 2004
From the answer to my last posts on clicks and pops, I'm starting to think that perhaps I've allocated my resources poorly in OSX. I just changed the colors from millions to thousands and I'm hoping that will help some. Are there any other general tweaks I should be aware of?
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- KVRist
- 199 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from NYC
in OSX millions of color actually operates better than thousands. This was a trick in OS9 to booste RAM and performance with apps but in OSX changing colors from millions actually works against you!
There are many OSX tweaks, I have read good articles on this and cant remeber most of the optimiztions. I know not having a simple backdrop help alot, turn off dock magnification, turn off font smoothing (helps alot) a bucnh of other little tricks I cant remeber. I think CM had a good article a while back on this, if not search OSXaudio.com.
There are many OSX tweaks, I have read good articles on this and cant remeber most of the optimiztions. I know not having a simple backdrop help alot, turn off dock magnification, turn off font smoothing (helps alot) a bucnh of other little tricks I cant remeber. I think CM had a good article a while back on this, if not search OSXaudio.com.
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- KVRAF
- 2874 posts since 22 Oct, 2002 from "somewhere between digital and analog"
The best tweak... G5 dual, 2 gigs of ram! 
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- KVRian
- 500 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from Oslo, Norway
Very interesting Aleatoric, but does it have a relative effect?
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- KVRist
- 125 posts since 31 May, 2004
So having an iBook G4 1 Ghz and 1.25 GB of RAM is a bad idea?
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- KVRist
- 199 posts since 2 Mar, 2003 from NYC
Well, font smoothing certainly helps.....I guess with OSX tweaks its about the little things but if you make all the proper OSX audio application optimization tweaks (try to find an article with all the proper things to do, there are ones out there I have read that definitly helped general application performace). For example set your dock preferences to have the dock hidden and also have the magnification effect on it than put the mouse over the dock while a heavy Tracktion song is playing....you might even get audio drops or a complete crash of TRacktion as OSX waste needed ram on unnessecary function suck as making the dock visible and magnifying it in the same motion....this can obvously happen by accident if your mouse scrolls down to the dock by accident while a VST intesive Tracktion track is playing.....this can be avoided by leaving the dock visible with no magnification. It the little things. Font smoothing being disabled definitly helps alot. Making sure your soundcard has no unneeded inputs or outputs selected. Of couse just having the needed apps open is a must. IE dont have Safari or say Mail open when running Tracktion. I know I read specificly keep color on millions not thousands. Repair permissions often. A good restar before I intensive Tracktion session is always good. OSX has been note "to like" restarts. Utilitys like cocktail are very useful as well. A simple desktop background is key. Use your power adapter and set energy saver to "never" for both settings and make sure put the hard drive to sleep when possible is uncheck....i think this is a big one. I know I am missing some but really it is the sum of all these things that will help you get the best possible performance in Mac OSX. Also the latest updates are always good (OS updates) but I always wait a week till just in case. Hope these things help, like I said there are great articles on OSX optimization and ever OSX audio optimization specificly.