EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 7/25/04 9:41 PM, "dphil321" <darclist@...> wrote:

> I may be building a system for use in a theater production, lots of
> orchestral samples played live to augment the orchestral
> players.

I've been involved with such uses for many years, now.
 
> I've used the I/O plug in trick, and it works, but I've found it a bit
> unstable, and setting up any kind of splits or layers is fairly
> agonizing. 

I don't think the I/O trick works in Mac OS X. I tried it and saw no
difference.

Another weird thing about processor load is that Logic's CPU meters for my
dual G4 show uneven use. That's typical of Mac OS 9 behavior -- but I'm in
OS X! it appears that logic would have some way to go before it fully
distributes the load across two processors BUT OS X's Activity monitor when
running at the same time shows a more even use of the two CPUs! I don't
understand where the discrepancy lies. Sure, there may be some additional
load that OS X itself can distribute for running ITSELF, but the difference
was pretty major. Check out the screenshot I took:

http://members.rogers.com/dropzone/LogicLoad.jpg

That's with dual 1.3GHz G4, 2GB RAM, 64 audio instruments. Logic is in play
during a fairly busy section.

Maybe it's Core Audio chugging away on the System side?? But, Activity
Monitor shows LOGIC at 112.3% CPU usage. So, there is still this discrepancy
between logic's CPU meter and Activity Monitor's CPU meter :-/

Having said ALL that, your post really didn't have a point, other than the
inference of processor load. If you're having problems with processor load,
make sure your audio instruments' polyphony is reduced as low as possible.