1O TIPS on optimising computers for music
1 Only run what’s needed
ome of these tips may not be obvious, but some are glaringly so, and we’ll start with a biggie from the latter camp. It’s no good running your power-hungry DAW project, loaded with every instrument and effect plug-in going, if you have a load of other apps running in the background – games to switch to on your downtime, or work to complete when your tunes are finished and so on. On a Mac, your Dock will tell you what’s running, or open Dashboard to disable those Mac widgets that eat up your RAM; on a
