[Ti] GarageBand delay

Mykol Sherwüd msherwood at mac.com
Sat Feb 21 11:04:56 PST 2004


There is a setting for G3's or G4's&G5's in the preferences. I set mine 
to G3 even though I have a G4 500mhz, and it works better.
myk
On Feb 21, 2004, at 3:01 AM, Erik Gaderlund wrote:

> Ahh, the hated 'latency' the great evil of using computers to play 
> audio.  You should look through your prefs to see if there is a way to 
> set a cache file, or buffer and that should help with latency. 
> Certainly from the original Mac and Windows it's getting much better 
> (OS X is said to have the lowest around.)  One thing I know is that 
> the slower ATA hard drives certainly contribute to this problem, but, 
> a 7200 rpm drive will help, but, still it's just something to have to 
> deal with.  Here's the appropriate knowledge base article: 
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=150637
>
> erik g
>
> At 06:15 PM -0500 02/19/04, John Mistretta wrote:
>> GarageBand has been fun to play with but there's one glitch I'm 
>> curious about.
>>
>> When I monitor a live instrument while I'm recording, I hear a very 
>> slight delay. The second track is in sync, but I'm just hearing it a 
>> fraction of a second later. I had read in the past that Mac laptops 
>> and/or the  OS had QT driver issues where there was no way of 
>> avoiding this. Is that still true, or am I missing something here. . 
>> .
>>
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