Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

On Apr 16, 2005, at 3:35 AM, GAmoore@... wrote:

> I am running logic on a G5/dual 1.8 with Panther. I just bought it two 
> months ago. There is nothing other than Logic, purchased plugs and 
> virtual synths, and the most up to date Os. I have a separate internal 
> drive where I put Photoshop, Excel, Real Basic, etc.

Which third party plugins?  Are they the latest versions?  Just because 
they are legit does not mean they are stable.  PMP for example, as 
dearly as I love it, is a real flake.

How much RAM and is it good RAM?  All OSX programs are complete pigs 
about RAM unfortunately and unfortunately even the best RAM sometimes 
goes bad.

Which audio interface, which drivers.  Some IOs are real bastards and 
their drivers just love to divert the vehicle to KP city.


>  I would say that my system as plain vanilla simple and common as you 
> can get. And yet Logic is terribly unstable, key commands don't work 
> much of the time, there are other strange behaviour, and it crashes on 
> quitting regularly, ..and the occasional freeze.

Not the case here and I don't have separate systems, I do *everything* 
from the same system.  I am not saying I never have crashes, or even 
that I never have kernal panics.  Just that I don't have so many that 
it is an insurmountable impediment to my work.

>  If they didn't test logic on the most common and simple platform then 
> there is something wrong with their entire beta testing program.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yada yada yada....

They certainly do use the most common systems.  But every single system 
that it is possible to build using common place elements?  As a little 
math exercise consider the possible permutations when there are 
literally thousands of interfaces, thousands of plugins, thousands of 
video cards...  The conceivable combinations run into the trillions of 
trillions.  It gets into the realm of the number of monkeys and 
typewriters you need to randomly produce Shakespear.


> If we keep buying into this nonsense, eventually we'll be purchasing 
> the right to write the program ourselves.

Maybe you should not buy into it anymore and move your operations to a 
system based on the competing modern OS whose developers are using the 
development strategy you describe.  BTW would you tell me which one 
that is so I can too?