Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Thanks for the link to the video site. However, after spending 5-10 minutes watching both videos, all I found is that they are demonstrating in a painfully slow way what I originally said in the first sentence of my post - which is that yes 64 bit is needed if you load sample instrument after SI after SI after SI. But I did not see anything about whether Logic was any more efficient in general. 

And in fact, it brings up another headache, and one of the main reasons why I am abandoning a lot of software instruments and plugins - because Apple changes the OS or Logic, and then your plugins don't work and you have to get updates. It says they will still run now, and even if this is true, I guarantee that Apple will soon drop support for 32 bit plugs in a year or so, and they will stop working completely.

Some companies are cool about this - like UAudio and PSP .... but other ones like Waves and NI make you buy updates. With Waves you have purchase thier "WUP" just to get the updates - maybe $200/year. And I have bought various versions of NI instruments to get a new version that works with a new processor or whatever, and then found that the old songs with those instruments won't open and I lose all my patches and arrangements.

I personally found its a huge waste of money to buy so many instruments and plugins - and to pare it down to a small number that you can stay with.


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Watch these videos and you may change your mind regarding your suspected performance hit ;-) 
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--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, GAmoore@... wrote:
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> Also the only advantage of 64 bit seems to be huge mega sample sets. 
> However, I am suspicious that there may be a performance hit when using 
> data twice as big or having processing on these double large integers.
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