Dead spots and pops.

Hello everyone
Well I'v been using Logic Pro 7.2 for a couple months and loving it. I don't have a high-end studio just my G4 Powermac 2x 1.6, 1.5 gig of ram. but Im starting to notice when play some EXS24 sampler or my plug-in's Im getting pop's or cut out in sound while playing. Now I was told that my internal sound card build in my G4 should be ok(digital Audio). But is this being caused by not having a better sound card. Since Im learning and don't need high end system, could this be stopped by getting a AudioPhile 192 sound card. For the price it seem pretty good, or maybe not I could be wrong. All i have is my midi keyboard and padkontrol and I just want to be able to play all sample with out hearing dead spot while playing or click and sometime pops. It seems like when i get to 8 voices ,but most of the time it never goes past 11 voices, that when I start to hear it. But not all the time. OK well I would love anyone feed back,
thank you for your time.
G4(DA)/2x1.6 Logic Pro 7.2.3 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Logic Pro

Hi Carl,
On my tower ( similar to yours ) I could do about 500 voices ( quick test ) using internal audio system 256 and 48000 - this system is well optimized for audio and Software development... but you should not get 2% the polyphony I do. In fact, that setting performed better using internal ( vs, internal ) for the test... whatever. The real problem lies somewhere in the setup, settings...
How many drives are you using?
What does Activity Monitor tell you is happening? - anything suspicious?
If you may say your lso originated from a session that could be old, run setup asst and create a new one - usually, performance will be better with a fresh template. I have recieved windows sessions and worked with corrupt sessions that behaved this well...
any 3rd party AUs at the time this happens?
Are you reading your samples of the System Volume or a volume on the same drive?
Tried this with Virtual memory ( for EXS24 ) on? off? - if on, configure it to allocate the most memory.
Any other audio apps?
How do you fare in GB? ( GB's sampler is essentially an EXS24 engine in a box with a white label and plain black letters - just a generic UI over the sampler engine )
J

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