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I'd say that's you problem , Ken, and to be honest, I don't think 4 Gbwill do it (might be wrong). I use a white Macbook with 4 gigs, and I ran into problems with everything slowing up which turned out to be due to having too many instances of playback up and running - all the audio was loading into RAM. I solved it by breaking up my concert into smaller sections, placing aliases for these on my desktop, and switching off the prompt asking me if I wanted to close the existing concert before opening a new one. Now when I want to select a new concert I minimise the existing one, and click on the alias for the new one. It does add a bit of delay, but done at strategic points in the gig, it's not noticable to the audience.

Hi there, a bit late on this, so how's it going? My suggestion, which I have been using for a while now in a similar set-up to you it this: Create a Concert containing a number of Sets (NB this is the Apple meaning of the word 'Set', and in this case it would mean 'song'). Within each Set, you can then add the required number of patches for your sounds - for instance, I generally have a patch for my rhythm guitar part, then another for the lead sound. Then, at the Set level (ie click on the Set in the patch inspector window) add a software instrument strip with the Playback plug-in selected - this allows you to change patches (sounds) within a Set (song) without interrupting the Playback. In fact, in my set-up I use a number of instrument strips in each Set as my backings consist of separate files, one for each instrument, allowing me to tweak my backing mixes live, if necessary. This takes a bit of setting up, but it is well worth it, as it gives a fair degree of flexibility. The only caveat I would add, is that you shouldn't put too many sets (songs) into a concert, as this eats up your RAM, and leads to latency in the activation of the Playback transport controls. I use a max of 10 per concert, but a bit of experimentation should help you determine your optimum amount.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the Waves GTR Ground, which gets a lot of praise in this context on other forums. I've not used it myself, but other users have praised the ease of set-up. The main drawbacks seem to be noisy footswitches (not a big problem on stage, unless using mic'ed acoustics), and I believe it needs an external power supply - which is the main reason I haven't gone for it yet, although if my GIO doesn't turn up soon, I may well be cancelling that order and switching my allegiance. Anyway, would be interested to hear any user experiences.

Select the channel strip and in the inspector you can turn it off. Please make sure you remember to turn it off on all the channel strips, as well. I've been around the houses quite a bit with this, and there is no way of globally disabling this, which is a PITA. When I'm setting up a concert, my final check is to make sure it's turned of everywhere.