Comment optimiser les performances de mon Protools sous Mac OS ?

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altRetrouvez ci dessous un guide des optimisations possibles Sous Avid Protools avec Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

Pro Tools can be affected by system settings and other software and hardware drives installed on your computer. For best possible performance, it is recommended that you do the following:

Optimizations

Troubleshooting


Configure System Preferences

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Optimize Energy Saver
This optimization will free up system resources as well as prevent the computer from going to sleep or standby mode which can cause audio dropouts with Pro Tools software and hardware.

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Turn off Wi-Fi (formerly called AirPort) and Bluetooth
If your computer is equipped with Bluetooth wireless and/or a Wi-Fi (AirPort) card, these may need to be disabled for Pro Tools to work correctly.  In addition to freeing up system resources, disabling these can help resolve DAE errors -6085, -6086 and -6101.

Wi-Fi


Bluetooth

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Disable FireWire Networking
This optimization can help free up bandwidth in the firewire bus and allow Digidesign FireWire devices to work more efficiently.

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Disable FileVault protection
This optimization will allow your hard drive to work more efficiently with Pro Tools and can prevent DAE Error -9035 from occurring.

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Update iLok Drivers

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Software Update
Some updates to your Mac software can cause conflicts with Pro Tools.  Disabling this will prevent your computer from automatically updating.  If there is an update that you need, you can manually update your Mac software my clicking on the Apple menu in the upper left corner of your screen and choosing Software Update.

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Disable Spotlight Indexing
Spotlight indexing can sometimes cause conflicts with Pro Tools' database files, causing the drive to work sporadically.  Disabling this will allow the drive to function more efficiently in Pro Tools.

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Disable Sudden Motion Sensor (For laptops only.)
If you're recording in a loud environment, this optimization will prevent the Sudden Motion Sensor from kicking in and throwing a -9073 error in Pro Tools.

To re-enable Sudden Motion Sensor:

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Deleting Pro Tools Databases and Preferences

These are important steps in order to resolve various issues, such as assertion errors, graphic or display problems, and other intermittent issues that are not specifically hardware or compatibility related. Listed below are the paths to all the database and preference files installed by Pro Tools. Once you have deleted these files, you should empty the trash and restart your computer. These files will be recreated when Pro Tools is launched.

Pro Tools Databases

Pro Tools Preferences

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Uninstall and Reinstall Pro Tools
Uninstalling and reinstalling Pro Tools can help resolve issues with corrupt or faulty installations, as well as issues derived from overlapping installs of Pro Tools.  In many cases, this is more efficient than deleting Pro Tools preferences and databases.

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Repair Disk Permissions

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New User Account
This troubleshoot can help with issues launching Pro Tools.  Issues inside and outside of Pro Tools can be caused by conflicting preferences from other applications.  By default, a new user account will not have any preferences made for any programs and will allow Pro Tools


Then login to this new account and run Pro Tools.

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Remove Login Items

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Remove Startup Items

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Check Plug-In Compatibility
Make sure that all Plug-Ins are compatible with the version of Pro Tools that is installed on your system. Check with 3rd party programmers for their most up-to-date versions, you can also check the plug-in compatibility grid on the Avid website:

    * Plug-in Compatibility Grid

For Pro Tools 10 and later:

For Pro Tools 9 and earlier:

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