EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Following a posting on osxaudio regarding problems with EXS, I decided 
to do a test of EXS' polyphony:

a) I call up three instruments: Malmsjo piano, Wizoo piano, Peter 
Ewers' symphonic organ (all because they have individual samples for 
every key, and they're stereo), and gave them 48-notes of polyphony

b) I made a 48-note chord that lasted 4 bars (quantized so all notes 
fall on beat 1, bar 1), and cycled the first 5 bars

c) copied the chord to all three instruments, and hit play (that's 144 
notes, if you're counting!)

d) after hitting start and stop a few times, with time in between, not 
fast, I started to get drop-outs in 1 out of 3 of the instruments

e) eventually, I would hear drop-outs even on a single solo-ed 
instrument

f) I went to the virtual memory panel, changed a few settings (slower 
drive, hard-disk activity less) and hit the 'apply' button

g) Logic crashed

h) I repeated this after re-booting, just to be sure, and exactly the 
same things happened (crash)

My questions are: what about the 1,000 voices from the G5 unveiling? 
How about just 150, without drop-outs/crackles? Is this related to my 
use of the factory drive, as opposed to using another, audio-dedicated 
drive? Can anyone confirm any of this?

Here's my setup: G5 Dual/2gig ram + Panther + Logic 6.3.1 + internal 
160 gig factory drive.

Thanks for any feedback!

Ned


http://www.nedfx.com

    Ned Bouhalassa

n e d @ n e d f x . c o m

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