Sorry, that's harsh but I just went thru the same thing you did. Is a 2006 Core 2 Duo and 3GB RAM simply not enough power? There's nothing I can do to increase performance further? If I'm not able to get this situated, I'll probably have to pass on my first recording job, which is very disheartening.How to optimize - buy a new Mac. I've read through pages of search results here on GS, but haven't found anything that helps. It doesn't look like I'll be able to scrape together enough money for the Mac Mini. I've Googled around looking for answers, but haven't found a solution yet. I've been looking at a Mac Mini, but if there are any other methods to optimize my performance with the MacBook Pro, that would save me a headache and wad of cash. I will be recording my first full band soon, using Slate Trigger on the drums, and was planning on using Ozone extensively, but if I'm having so much trouble with only guitar and MIDI drums, it looks like I may need to upgrade computers before attempting to record the band. I haven't had trouble before using Ozone 5, only using EZ Drummer and guitar tracks with some stock and free EQ/compression. PT is running at 1024 and 90% with no other applications running in the background, wifi turned off, and the hard drive was recently formatted so it's clean. I am running a track of EZ Drummer and Ozone 5 Advanced on an aux of two guitar tracks.

I am using a 2006 Intel Core 2 Duo MBP with 3GB RAM (the max for this model), and encountering constant 'CPU overload' errors in Pro Tools 10.

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