On 29 Jul 2013, at 13:59 , Rusty White roojam@me.com wrote:
I really liked the final result I got with DB on the one tune I was able to complete, but unfortunately had to wipe DB from my Macbook Pro shortly after because it would crash hard every time I was in it, and this became progressively worse such that eventually the only way to regain control of my machine was to hold down the power key and reboot. The last time even that procedure had to be performed twice, and once I was back in control, the MB Pro would spend enormous amounts of time and resources reindexing all files on the machine just to run any app including opening a finder window. Since this machine serves dual purposes, I could not afford to take any more chances by opening DB, so I removed it. Prior to removing I asked the guys if there were any known issues with compatibility, OS versions perhaps, or hardware, but none were known. My MBPro is a 2010 model 2.4 Ghz, i5, 8GB, 10.8.4 (currently). Its weird that I'm the only one experiencing these heart-stopping troubles.
That IS very weird, and it sounds like some kind of hard disk problem as much as anything. In any case, certainly seems like something "machine level" and not necessarily connected with any of the software on the machine (other than, possibly, something gone funky in the OS itself).
I have a new Mac Mini that screams performance, and I use it to do my studio work which includes having a Logic Pro DAW. Even though I can create beats in Logic using my keyboard/pad controller I still would prefer to use DB to create the drum parts, but I still have a bad case of post-traumatic stress from my final efforts to use DB. In the spirit of " Other than that Ms Lincoln, how was the play?",…….I really did like the program.
Since this is a different machine, I would be very surprised if it did what your Mac Book was doing. I'm not going to stake my LIFE on it :D but I would be very surprised.
I likewise run a not-quite-so-new Mac Mini, with GarageBand rather than Logic (doing what I do in GB is already crushing my CPU and RAM; I'm tempted to move towards Logic since it's pretty reasonably priced these days, but more creative power in the software is really just going to overtax my already struggling machine even more, I think, so I'll wait till I can upgrade to an iMac), running the latest OSX and running the latest Doggiebox. It's all fine (well, other than the bug described in the original mail!).
I used to use DB to control a Roland VS1680 as an external MIDI slave, though nowadays I've gone all Garageband, and use DB to export multi-track drum parts that I then drag into GB.
Cheers, Carl
-- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/