EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Emagic Tech Support reccommends 500 meg if you have that much in the computer.  Logic will grab extra if it's there, but only to a point.  500 assures you'll be good for as much as OS9 will allow.  I did that and haven't had any problems since.  I do however, have 1.5 gig in my G4.  Not sure if that's a significant factor.  Keep in mind that once you set the 500 mark, that memory will no longer be available to other apps even if Logic isn't using all of it at the moment.

James
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Darcy Phillips 
  To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 11:29 PM
  Subject: [EXS] Memory management- mac


  I've searched the lists, and I still feel very unsure about how to manage
  system memory.

  Logic 5.5, OS 9, EXS24, Atmosphere, etc. on a powerbook 667 with 778 meg of
  ram.

  I have the preferred size for logic set to 200,000, and locked. But tonight
  near the end of a project with maybe 5 exs instances open and one (big)
  atmosphere instance, the program begin to move very ponderously. Took a look
  and sure enough, the program had 360 some meg of memory, but the bar showed
  that it was almost all used up.

  Now. Isn't the program taking new memory every time I open a new exs
  instance and load a sample? The only thing I have any control over is how
  much memory to give it at boot up, no? And if I give it too much, there will
  be less left over for samples, is that right? I don't know, couple that with
  the fact that atmosphere draws it's sample memory from outside logic, from
  the remaining free memory in the system, and I'm just pretty much thoroughly
  confused about how much memory to give Logic in the first place.

  Does it depend on what kind of softsynths I want to use per session? Should
  I be tailoring the memory assigned to Logic per session? And if so, what
  about in most cases where I don't know in advance what I'm going to be
  using?

  I know, I know, OS X. But I have to get through the next few months on OS 9
  still. Can anyone shed some wisdom?

  Cheers! 

  Darcy 

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