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I have just setup Hammerfall DSP Cardbus/Multiface combination with Logic
Platinum 5.1.3 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 - Win 2K, 900MHz PIII with
384 Mb RAM. I can play the EVP88 and ESX24 with low latency though the
Hammerfall as midi and audio interface so RME have got their part of the
equation right.

However, Logic takes 8 minutes ( I am not kidding) to load each time --
this is with about 20 VST plugs installed -- and runs extremely slowly --
all graphics slow scrolling from one end of the Audio Mixer to the other is
glacially slow. This laptop has 16 Mb of
video memory on a Trident card -- not UMA as far as I know.

During loading Logic loads the modules and runs the usual sequence of Init
this and that -- all at a snails pace. My Desktop PIII800 loads same
version of Logic with heaps of Plugins in about 40 secs.

The hard drive is the standard 30 gig job and is running DMA. I have disabled
write behind cache and prioritised background tasks  -- no obvious changes
- any clues on the lack of performance? This is my first shot at laptop audio.

Regards,
Murray