Hi, I've had my Macbook since August of 2007, and it has treated me very well so far. However, recently I've been having some problems when running some music production programs (Propellerhead Reason, DigiDesign ProTools): When I play complex songs in these programs, the sound comes out "clippy" and "laggy".
From forums intended for those music programs, I've narrowed it down to a couple last troubleshooting options. The first is to change the buffer size in the Mac Core Audio Drivers, which I can't find. Anyone know if this is an option I can adjust? The second option is someone else's suggestion that I have too much information running down one IDE channel, causing the unwanted lag / pops. I only have one hard drive, but it's running out of space (4GB left of 160GB). Could this be to blame? If so, would it be suitable to grab an external hard drive to move all of my music and schoolwork over to?
Any help would be appreciated, as I can't afford a new notebook, and I'm trying to get these songs finished for my first album.
From forums intended for those music programs, I've narrowed it down to a couple last troubleshooting options. The first is to change the buffer size in the Mac Core Audio Drivers, which I can't find. Anyone know if this is an option I can adjust? The second option is someone else's suggestion that I have too much information running down one IDE channel, causing the unwanted lag / pops. I only have one hard drive, but it's running out of space (4GB left of 160GB). Could this be to blame? If so, would it be suitable to grab an external hard drive to move all of my music and schoolwork over to?
Any help would be appreciated, as I can't afford a new notebook, and I'm trying to get these songs finished for my first album.
