>>> >>> I'm sure it's all possible.... >>> >>> I must also add that after reading one of the posts in this thread >>> yesterday saying they got a speed hit by turning off file sharing I >>> tried it on my G5 and hey presto no more overload messages at all >>> even during a really heavy mix. Thanks whoever mentioned that.... >>> >>> Regards >> >> I think that today's Macs do so many things, and there are so many >> background processes that run - lots of times the people having >> problems >> have no idea why their machines are sluggish. Usually they blame >> Logic or >> Apple. >> >> For me, it was simply disconnecting the internet cable that made my >> mixes >> run without problem...who knew? > > Thanks Blair. I always knew about file sharing and the CPU hit but > when I got the G5 I thought it was simply fast enough to cope so > didn't think to try turning it off. Also OSX has always been touted > as great networking OS so also though this may have improved to the > point it was not necessary to have it off. For lesser jobs it was > fine but with all the heavy mixing I've been doing lately I'm > obviously reaching limits..... Thanks again. > > Kind regards > > > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > Paul Najar I run Logic Express on an iBook G4 1.4 and rarely use much in the way of soft synths or plug-ins, and can use hardware monitoring to deal with the latencies inherent in high buffer settings, but as I explore the possibilities in Logic I expect to have issues. I was thinking of simply getting an intel Mac Mini to use at home and network it with my laptop to take advantage of distributed processing. Does distributed processing require that file sharing is turned on? Stuart Holmes- Holmestudio Music