I was maxing out my CPU last night and opened up that system
performance window within Logic. In it, there are two levels for CPU
load and 2 levels for HD I/O. When my CPU was maxing out, I noticed
that only the left level for the CPU area was "clipping"...the other
one was at a very low level. Do those 2 levels for the CPU represent
each of my G4 processors? If so, is there a way I can balance the
load between the two?
I have a dual processor G5 and the performance meter only shows one meter for CPU, the other is for hard disk access. That would be a good idea though - perhaps suggest it to apple.
The only thing I had running in my session was a single
Sculpture synth running a preset.
Sculpture is a CPU hog so its not surprising. And its almost surely being used on a single processor. Maybe if you opened two plugs they would distribute.
I think you are in a similar situation to where I was at with my G4/1.2 - you can use logic 7, and by using the freeze function, bouncing to audio, offline bouncing, you can get it to work - however it seems to be pressing the system hard - and its not that stable of a system (either X or Logic itself) and so it will break - that is crash. I think the answer is to get a dual g5 - and thats why i forked over the cash.
In the meantime, I think you should get your sculpture track fixed then bounce it rather than freeze it. Then disable the plug and use the bounced audio. That will then come purely from the hard disk and free up your cpu(s) to do more work.