hey people. so i got NI Massive about 6 months ago when i upgraded to Komplete 5. I’ve never really been able to use it without it glitching out and shit (even when just playing in standalone on economic mode). I knew it was a CPU intensive synth but i figured my macbook pro core 2 duo could handle it. well i was wrong, and i’ve never used it much with the notion that it will just sit around until i can afford a quad-core computer or something…
skip ahead to tonight…i’m working in cubase doing some orchestral work and after only loading 3 or 4 string instruments into my single instance of kontakt 3, my song again started dropping out and so on. so naturally this was unacceptable and i checked my latency settings and such, but nothing worked to solve the problem. after lots of browsing through the net i stumbled across one guy on one forum who mentioned “try turning off airport” (mac’s built in wireless networking system). i laughed at the thought of airport causing the problem but tried it anyway. take a guess what that did…
…AHA!!! Everything works perfectly again! I can run many instances of massive on it’s Ultra mode, my kontakt 3 orchestral piece runs smoothly. I once again began to feel the power of the core 2 duo and 3 gigs of ram that i once felt before. this sucked, because i went a long time before figuring out the problem, and a long time working under poor performance standards, but now i am very pleased. basically i want to relay this message to all my Apple friends that may just happen to be having similar problems:
IF YOU ARE USING A MAC AND FIND THAT IT SEEMS YOUR COMPUTER IS NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH SOMETIMES, TRY TURNING OFF AIRPORT TO SEE IF IT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE!!! IT COULD RESULT IN A PERFORMANCE BOOST!!!
so i guess this means i can no longer watch these forums like a hawk while i make tunes…