EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Sean McCoy wrote:
> So far, other than being able to load more instruments because of the
> greater RAM, the system is only marginally better than the G4 it replaced.
> Please tell me I didn't blow four grand here! I know others are getting
> fabulous things out of their G5's. What could possibly cause this poor
> performance? Did I just buy a lemon?

Not a Mac expert here, but:
Did you try to run the libraries from one external drive only (preferably
the FW one I'd say)?
Did you test some different virtual memory settings yet?

One thing seems to be for sure: LogicPro's audio performance is REALLY poor
(to even put it mildly, and it's NOT related to OSX but solely up to Emagic
to fix this as other apps don't perform even halfway as bad), so you may
better be off loading as much as possible into your RAM, rather than
streaming things (that's why I'd recommend to set the virtual memory thing
on the EXS as low as possible - try to set disk drive speed to "slow" and
harddisk recording activity to "extensive", no matter whether that's true or
not).
Wouldn't happen to know if EXS performance is affected by the generally
lousy audio performance of LogicPro, but it might be worth a shot.

- Sascha