Though this blog was written to assist our customers in optimizing the performance of OS X running on the Mac Mini media servers we upgrade, these same optimizations will work on any Mac running OS X for any personal or professional use. Normal features and functions in OS X will still be operational. From your Mac's desktop click on Go Utilities and select Audio MIDI Setup. In the Audio Devices Window, select the Aggregate Device. Click the '-' at the bottom of the window to remove the Aggregate Device. Restart the computer. Perform a New Configuration under Audio MIDI Setup (Mac OS X). Mar 07, 2015  It reads more like 'Optimizing your Mac is important - go do it'. Perhaps.Currently. optimizing your Mac would be better. This is confusing especially as I got this with a whole host of calendar and to-do notification popups, that clearly use the same notification mechanism, and all have an imperative association.

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Note: Avid does not support using Pro Tools 12.8.2 or earlier with Mac OS X 10.13. Additionally, the uninstaller for Pro Tools 10.3.10 and earlier will not work on Mac OS X 10.13 (High Sierra). If you have installed Pro Tools 10.3.x, you may follow the link above for instructions on how to manually uninstall the software. New User Account. Jan 31, 2019  Follow the steps below to make the audio and sound work. This method is for all Mac’s speakers including, external speakers, internal speakers, headphone, air pods, or any other speaker. This method is used when the Mac has chosen a different audio channel. For example, if you have attached headphones the audio channel was external sound.

Optimized Storage in macOS Sierra and later* can save space by storing your content in iCloud and making it available on demand. When storage space is needed, files, photos, movies, email attachments, and other files that you seldom use are stored in iCloud automatically. Each file stays right where you last saved it, and downloads when you open it. Files that you’ve used recently remain on your Mac, along with optimized versions of your photos.

* If you haven't yet upgraded to macOS Sierra or later, learn about other ways to free up storage space.

Find out how much storage is available on your Mac

Choose Apple menu  > About This Mac, then click Storage. Each segment of the bar is an estimate of the storage space used by a category of files. Move your pointer over each segment for more detail.

Click the Manage button to open the Storage Management window, pictured below. This button is available only in macOS Sierra or later.

Manage storage on your Mac

The Storage Management window offers recommendations for optimizing your storage. If some recommendations are already turned on, you will see fewer recommendations.

Store in iCloud

Click the Store in iCloud button, then choose from these options:

• Desktop and Documents. Store all files from these two locations in iCloud Drive. When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac, so that you can easily work offline. Files stored only in iCloud show a download icon , which you can double-click to download the original file. Learn more about this feature.
  
• Photos. Store all original, full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud Photos. When storage space is needed, only space-saving (optimized) versions of photos are kept on your Mac. To download the original photo or video, just open it.
  
• Messages. Store all messages and attachments in iCloud. When storage space is needed, only the messages and attachments you recently opened are kept on your Mac. Learn more about Messages in iCloud.

Storing files in iCloud uses the storage space in your iCloud storage plan. If you reach or exceed your iCloud storage limit, you can either buy more iCloud storage or make more iCloud storage available. iCloud storage starts at 50GB for $0.99 (USD) a month, and you can purchase additional storage directly from your Apple device. Learn more about prices in your region.

Optimize Storage

Click the Optimize button, then choose from these options.

• Automatically remove watched movies and TV shows. When storage space is needed, movies or TV shows that you purchased from the iTunes Store and already watched are removed from your Mac. Click the download icon next to a movie or TV show to download it again.
  
• Download only recent attachments. Mail automatically downloads only the attachments that you recently received. You can manually download any attachments at any time by opening the email or attachment, or saving the attachment to your Mac.
  
• Don't automatically download attachments. Mail downloads an attachment only when you open the email or attachment, or save the attachment to your Mac.

Optimizing storage for movies, TV shows, and email attachments doesn't require iCloud storage space.

Empty Trash Automatically

Empty Trash Automatically permanently deletes files that have been in the Trash for more than 30 days.

Reduce Clutter

Reduce Clutter helps you to identify large files and files you might no longer need. Click the Review Files button, then choose any of the file categories in the sidebar, such as Applications, Documents, Music Creation, or Trash.

You can delete the files in some categories directly from this window. Other categories show the total storage space used by the files in each app. You can then open the app and decide whether to delete files from within it.

Learn how to redownload apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books.

Where to find the settings for each feature

The button for each recommendation in the Storage Management window affects one or more settings in other apps. You can also control those settings directly within each app.

• If you're using macOS Catalina, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, click Apple ID, then select iCloud in the sidebar: Store in iCloud turns on the Optimize Mac Storage setting on the right. Then click Options next to iCloud Drive: Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders setting. To turn off iCloud Drive entirely, deselect iCloud Drive.
  In macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Options next to iCloud Drive. Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders and Optimize Mac Storage settings.
• In Photos, choose Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud. Store in iCloud selects iCloud Photos and Optimize Mac Storage.
• In Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, then click iMessage. Store in iCloud selects Enable Messages in iCloud.

• If you're using macOS Catalina, open the Apple TV app, choose TV > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Files. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
  In macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Advanced. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
• In Mail, choose Mail > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Accounts. In the Account Information section on the right, Optimize Storage sets the Download Attachments menu to either Recent or None.

Empty Trash Automatically: From the Finder, choose Finder > Preferences, then click Advanced. Empty Trash Automatically selects “Remove items from the Trash after 30 days.”

Other ways that macOS helps automatically save space

With macOS Sierra or later, your Mac automatically takes these additional steps to save storage space:

• Detects duplicate downloads in Safari, keeping only the most recent version of the download
• Reminds you to delete used app installers
• Removes old fonts, languages, and dictionaries that aren't being used
• Clears caches, logs, and other unnecessary data when storage space is needed

How to free up storage space manually

Even without using the Optimized Storage features of Sierra or later, you can take other steps to make more storage space available:

Photos also has a Memories tool that collects and presents images around an event.iTunes: Apple Music gets a new look in Sierra. And - hooray! - you can edit Live Photos with Photos' editing tools. The For You section, for example, does a better job displaying recommended albums and playlists. Free updates for mac os sierra.

• Music, movies, and other media can use a lot of storage space. Learn how to delete music, movies, and TV shows from your device.
• Delete other files that you no longer need by moving them to the Trash, then emptying the Trash. The Downloads folder is good place to look for files that you might no longer need.
• Move files to an external storage device.
• Compress files.
• Delete unneeded email: In the Mail app, choose Mailbox > Erase Junk Mail. If you no longer need the email in your Trash mailbox, choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items.

Learn more

• The Storage pane of About This Mac is the best way to determine the amount of storage space available on your Mac. Disk Utility and other apps might show storage categories such as Not Mounted, VM, Recovery, Other Volumes, Free, or Purgeable. Don't rely on these categories to understand how to free up storage space or how much storage space is available for your data.
• When you duplicate a file on an APFS-formatted volume, that file doesn't use additional storage space on the volume. Deleting a duplicate file frees up only the space required by any data you might have added to the duplicate. If you no longer need any copies of the file, you can recover all of the storage space by deleting both the duplicate and the original file.
• If you're using a pro app and Optimize Mac Storage, learn how to make sure that your projects are always on your Mac and able to access their files.

If you are experiencing audio dropout, distorted audio or various noised like pops, cracks, clicks, etc. on your Mac computer during recording or playback, chances are your Mac OS needs optimization for audio. If you keep ignoring these problems, your ears will never get satisfied because they won’t get better unless you do something. This post will show you some easy tweaking on your Mac OS X to get better audio and perhaps, get rid of these issues for good.

Turn AirPort Off

“AirPort” is Apple’s name for WiFi or 802.11g/n. If you want your Mac connected to a wireless network, then you should leave it on, but you should know that wireless hardware & services can be resource-intensive, dragging your Mac audio processing performance down over firewire. So, if you have a better alternative to WiFi connections, you should turn AirPort off. It is a straightforward thing to do via the WiFi menu.

1. Open “System Preferences”.
2. Click “Network” icon.
3. Choose “Network Port Configuration” under “show”
4. Untick “AirPort” & click “Apply”

Buy a Firewire Expansion Hub

The Mac firewire ports (FW400 & FW800) are sharing system resources. If you are experiencing the aforesaid audio issues, it is suggested that you buy a firewire expansion hub for your FW400/FW800 devices.

Repair Disk Permissions

This can help solve audio issues over firewire or system slowdown.

1. Disconnect every firewire device you have.
2. Open “Disk Utility”.
3. Choose the hard drive volume.
4. Click “Repair Disk Permissions”.
5. Reboot the Mac when the repairing is done.

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Check more details on how to repair disk permissions.

Get Faster Disk Speed

Your Mac for audio should make use of 2 hard disks, at least: one for the OS and all apps and the other for your audio and data. This will keep system drive idle and running faster. It is suggested that you use a 7200 RPM external hard drive to save your audio data.

Now we have listed some methods to optimize your Mac for audio producing and processing. Try them out and see if you can get the problems figured out.

If you have recorded audio perfectly, without any noises caused by poor Mac performance, you may be facing some format issues to right now. Usually, the raw audio recording is in uncompressed WAV format, preserving all the details (useful or not) for further editing. These WAV files are too big for simple playback on your Mac or any devices. It’s time to convert them to MP3.

All2MP3 for Mac is the easiest audio converter for Mac, which can convert WAV to MP3. It also handles all the audio formats you can find. 2 steps are enough to convert all your audio files:

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1. Drag the audio files in.
2. Choose the output folder & quality and CONVERT!
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If you are trying to record audio for video, like a tutorial or demo video using your Mac, then your audio must be of good quality to catch the ears of your viewers. There are some certain techniques and improvements that can help enhance your recording. Watch the video below to learn how to get better audio for video.

Now you get the tips to optimize your Mac for audio recording & producing as well as the tricks to improve your audio for video. But what if you don’t want to record your voice? Instead, you may just want to turn some texts into spoken language. Don’t worry about those complicated tutorials and third-party applications that are expensive or require installment of various extra stuff. Check this video out to learn how to record text to speech on Mac OS as MP3.