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i spent a year getting angry with my pulsar. i realised what i was doing was using it as an excuse not to make music. if you have problems, in a modern pc setup with lots of different software, you can always find ways round, there are almost always many different ways to achieve the same result. if your system has limitations - USE the limitations, and find creative ways round them. i guess it depends what sort of music you want to make - but personally i'm trying to make stuff that is a bit experimental - i think being forced to use unconventional methods actually helps me produce stuff that sounds different. so problems can actually work to your advantage by forcing you to think laterally. are you trying to make music, or are you trying to make a slick demonstration of the wonders of modern computing to impress your mates? think about it. eg i have never solved my audio/pulsar synchronisation problems in cubase - so ok, now i simply record all my pulsar noodles as wavs, and then produce tracks by arranging the audio. this works, and accidentally produces weird results that i would never have thought of otherwise. negative becomes positve. USE your limits and stop WHINGEING.

ps - not saying you have nothing to be pissed off about.

i just think it's easy get so caught up in trying to get everything to work properly that you forget to make music, which you can do using one synth.

The mac I had with Pulsar has agp 4x.
It's a G4.

I didn't have performance issues. I could run a lot of things, never even heard a single click, not even when recording 20 tracks simultaniously. My problem was different. I could never be sure that a project would load the next day. If I had some EQ's inserted, that track (only when I loaded the project the day after) would go completely silent unless I removed the insert fx's from the mixer. Also Sometimes the STS would fail to load akai samples from my sample CD collection. My solution was to use the EXS24. I know the problems started for me when Pulsar version 3 came out.
When something works like that I can't trust it. That's why I changed back to ProTools. I know I can trust that system.
And I can't go back to Pulsar software version 2.X , it's just too crappy.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Air_PoLLo on 2002-02-01 21:36 ]</font>