V-Stack

V-STACK
Installation and requirements for Mac OS X 3 – 23
Computer requirements
Hardware – Mac
The absolute minimum requirements for running V-STACK on a
Macintosh are as follows:
• Macintosh with a G4 processor, 256 MB RAM and OS X 10.2.
We recommend 512 MB RAM or more.
RAM
Audio work requires a lot of RAM! In fact, there is a direct relation be-
tween the amount of available RAM and the number of audio channels
that you can have running. As specified earlier, 256 MB is the minimum
requirement, but as a general rule “the more the better” applies.
Hard disk size
• The size of the hard disk determines how many minutes of audio you
will be able to record.
Recording one minute of stereo CD quality audio, requires 10 MB of hard disk space.
That is, eight stereo tracks in V-STACK use up at least 80 MB of disk space per re-
cording minute.
Hard disk speed
The speed of the hard drive also determines the number of audio
tracks you can run. That is the quantity of information that the disk can
read, usually expressed as “sustained transfer rate”. Again, “the more
the better” applies.
Mouse
Although a regular mouse will work perfectly fine with V-STACK, we
recommend that you use a wheel mouse with two mouse buttons.
• Having a wheel mouse will speed up value editing and scrolling considerably.
• If your mouse has two mouse buttons you should program the right mouse
button to generate a [Ctrl]-click (this is typically the default behaviour of the
right mouse button).
This will allow you to bring up context menus by right clicking.