Hi all ... I am new to the the world of Pro Tools and just recently kitted out a powermac 9600 with a d24 card, two DSP farm cards and a Sample Cell II card. They are all connected together with a cable. I'm not loaded with Ram at this stage (somewhere upwards of 320 megs) but I can't figure out why, with all the available processing power that I should have, I can't get a single instance of either Retro AS-1, Unity DS-1 or Vibra to instantiate.
With an empty session, I'll create a midi track and a Stereo Aux track. I'll assign one of the soft synths to the Midi Track and then try to activate the direct connect plugin on the Aux track. The machine will chunk away for a couple of seconds and will comeback with an error code something like "not enough free DSP, error -7204."
The two farm cards have the older chipset and I've installed the latest direct connect plugin and stream extension. I couldn't get a stable OS 9.1 install on the machine and decided to go with 8.6 - I wonder if that could be the problem.
If anybody has any ideas, I'd definitely appreciate hearing them.
Thanks.
D.