Increasing Your Operating System’s Performance

Whether you have chosen to go down the Mac road or the Windows road, there’s something you have to understand: Neither Apple nor Microsoft designed its operating systems solely to work with Cubase. There are a lot of built-in compatibility issues for both Windows computers and Macs from the moment Cubase is installed on your system. Before you start to cry and run back to your banjo or harmonica for comfort, let me tell you that taking care of these little issues is no big deal. That’s what we’re going to work on in this section.

By the time this book is available, Mac will have released OS X Leopard and Microsoft will probably have a few updates available for Vista. Because operating systems are always changing, I’m going to give you some general advice.