EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 1 May 2006, at 00:25, Nick Batzdorf wrote:

> From: "luvcrazdog" <luvcrazdog@...>
>
>> On the VSL forum, Steve Von Kampen posted results of trying to
>> utilize all
>> 8MB of RAM he had in his Quad using 4 MBs for Logic 7.2 Pro/EXS24,
>> and 4
>> MBs of stand-alone VSL VIs, but found that the VSL VIs leaked ram.

I Don't know how well it works in practice, but I just tested the old  
idea of running two instances of logic simultaneously...

you cannot run 2 instances of Logic 7.2, as it comes up with an error  
message, saying another user has that application open....  BUT, you  
CAN run one logic 7.2 pro and one logic 6.4.2 Pro simultaneously...
but you have to make sure that the Logic 6  version doesn't try and  
open a Logic 7 song or autoload.


other than that, you can load sample libraries into the two quite  
happily past the 4GB limit overall....   each one is still limited,  
but the combined total goes past 4 Gb ( i have East west platinum  
libraries (largest 2 of each group) and some  big piano libraries,  
and BFD, and so on  loaded as i type.

444	 Logic Pro	maxhodges	22.90	16	2.80 GB	3.47 GB	1,842	205.91 MB	 
2.69 GB	1:09.41	409,709	296,568	
413	 Logic Pro	maxhodges	52.20	35	1.45 GB	2.04 GB	351	115.69 MB	1.46  
GB	14:52.09	1,239,761	437,696	


I haven't time to get really silly with it....    But in both Real  
and virtual memory these two instances add up to over 4GB.

and no crashes yet....

the system used is a Rev A 2x2GHz PPC G5 , with 6 GB of DDR 400 RAM.

can't speak about audio quality, as it's past 2 am here and i'm NOT  
in a soundproof studio  room, just working in my home office/work  
room/studio....  under my kid's bedroom.

Likewise I haven't really explored Midi and audio communication   
yet,  but I guess OSX Jack could move audio between them, and IAC  
midi would be fine....

I wonder if this might also be another solution to the issues being  
had by those with Quad core g5 PPC machines unable to wring the  
maximum grunt form their investments?


I'm not a vienna user yet, but saving hard towards it !

Max