sonisphere
Hello VDJ Community,
This is a reminder that more memory means smoother more stable VDJ operation and possibly better performance.
I have a Macbook Pro (2010) from time to time while I am playing VDJ would randomly give me a spinning colour wheel and lock up interaction for a few seconds. This was never a big issue as the music would continue playing and it would usually unlock before I would need transition. It was mainly annoying. I downloaded a free app called Memory Clean which frees up available memory. This app showed me that VDJ had less than 5% available memory to work with from my installed 4GB of RAM. Now the pauses made sense as the Mac was probably trying to free up memory. Upgrade time!!! Unfortunate the maximum RAM upgrade available for my model Macbook Pro is 8GB not 16GB that the slightly newer models offer but 8GB is plenty for VDJ. My system now shows more than 60% available memory and the pauses have stopped. Actually the entire laptop feels snappier and I am able to drop my performance latency to 64 buffer from 128 without crackle or noise. Its seems the new RAM was also faster.
I know most of you know this already but incase you missed it like did cheers.
This is a reminder that more memory means smoother more stable VDJ operation and possibly better performance.
I have a Macbook Pro (2010) from time to time while I am playing VDJ would randomly give me a spinning colour wheel and lock up interaction for a few seconds. This was never a big issue as the music would continue playing and it would usually unlock before I would need transition. It was mainly annoying. I downloaded a free app called Memory Clean which frees up available memory. This app showed me that VDJ had less than 5% available memory to work with from my installed 4GB of RAM. Now the pauses made sense as the Mac was probably trying to free up memory. Upgrade time!!! Unfortunate the maximum RAM upgrade available for my model Macbook Pro is 8GB not 16GB that the slightly newer models offer but 8GB is plenty for VDJ. My system now shows more than 60% available memory and the pauses have stopped. Actually the entire laptop feels snappier and I am able to drop my performance latency to 64 buffer from 128 without crackle or noise. Its seems the new RAM was also faster.
I know most of you know this already but incase you missed it like did cheers.
Inviato Tue 13 Jan 15 @ 4:29 pm
locoDog
The Optomise addon does the same thing.
Inviato Tue 13 Jan 15 @ 4:38 pm
sonisphere
Hey the optimizer looks like a great tool is there a version for OSX?
Inviato Tue 13 Jan 15 @ 4:42 pm
locoDog
It looks like no, but it's only a batch file so porting it over to osx shouldn't be that difficult for an OSX user with a bit of time for research.
Inviato Tue 13 Jan 15 @ 5:04 pm
basxr
Hi , you'd better boot-camp your mac , and run windows on it .
VDJ runs SO much better on pc. NO more osx on my mac .
as for latency , I set mine at about 6ms but that would be with the ASIO driver of course . though not sure
what the limit would be because I didn't test any further . And for the record , my mbp has 4Gb Ram.
Since I boot-camped my mac and , fore sure since I use the Trackpad ++ driver on it , I actually enjoy the thing . :)
VDJ runs SO much better on pc. NO more osx on my mac .
as for latency , I set mine at about 6ms but that would be with the ASIO driver of course . though not sure
what the limit would be because I didn't test any further . And for the record , my mbp has 4Gb Ram.
Since I boot-camped my mac and , fore sure since I use the Trackpad ++ driver on it , I actually enjoy the thing . :)
Inviato Tue 13 Jan 15 @ 8:07 pm