10.12. Install More Memory

After a certain point, bending over backward to accommodate all of these workarounds, settings, and cheats just isn't worth it. If you're still getting "Parts were not played " messages after following all, or even some, of the steps in this chapter, you should just break down and give your Mac the gift of more memory.

With more RAM, GarageBand can hold more of the sampled audio (blue Real loops , your purple Real recordings, and green, sampled Software Instruments) in memory, and therefore doesn't have to read as much information from your hard drive, which is what slows GarageBand down.

In particular, if your Mac has only 256 or even 512 megabytes of memory, you're living at the edge, as far as GarageBand is concerned . (To find out how much you have, choose About This Mac.) Hie thee to www.ramseeker.com, choose your Macs model name from the pop-up menu, and see just how inexpensive a memory upgrade can be these days.