The Logic Off Topic list

On 04-02-08 08.22,  "litepipe" <litepipe@...> wrote:

> My qestion is this.....If I
> buy a Mac will I have to endlessly mess with it and tweak it to work?

I've been producing music with Macs for ten years, and with PCs for five,
and the only serious Mac problems I have run into is getting spare parts
when your machine becomes "last years model". It's funny that the G5 and
Panther the Mac now feels to me like a PC with Win XP, but only more
efficient at the OS level. There was a huge difference when the last OSX
update arrived (Jaguar to Panther), but still Logic 5.5.1 on my P4 Win XP is
more stable than my recent set-up with Logic 6.3.2 on a dual 2 GHz G5 and OS
10.30.2 - in my experience. But than I have to add that I almost never had a
crash on PC and very rarely with the G5. And OSX appears to evolve much
faster than Win XP, I own both and keep up with online updates.


>  2 hard
> drives?

Definitely! I have three. Two internal and one external firewire 800 drive
to move projects to other studios.


> I'm looking at the dual 1.8 gig processor.

You should wait until the next line of G5's get released, if you can. Then
you would get a better price.

> What kind of track count

Really don't know. Seems to be almost endless ;-)  However I'm almost maxing
out my CPU's by slaving Ableton Live by ReWire and piping eight virtual
tracks into Logic while applying EQ, Envelope plug-in, and some compressors.
I guess that high CPU use comes with Live. So plug-ins and running different
programs simultaneously is where the CPU drain kicks in - not by track
count.


On 04-02-08 09.24,  "Dennis Gunn" <dennis@...> wrote:

> One thing that Panther (OS 10.3) does that is really fantastic is
> monitor file usage and optimize your disk so that the most often
> accessed files are on the fastest part of the disk.

Oh, I didn't know that! Cool! I've been thinking of the danger of suddenly
running into disc fragmentation. My strategy on the G5 is to have a lot of
hard drive space (even one drive partitioned into smaller areas) so I can
simply move files to another drive, reformatting and finally move the files
back. That's a quick method. On older Mac systems I used Norton Disc
Utilites but that's too time consuming when defragging huge drives. And  on
the PCs I do it in Win XP or Partitions Magic.

Best regards

Per Boysen
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