Painless Upgrade
Jul 12th, 2011, 01:29
I just upgraded to Logic 9 and it went real smooth. There is a difference. When I "create empty project" with "software instrument" selected, it default installs the EVP88 channel strip setting. This was not the case in logic 8 (or maybe I deleted this channel strip setting way back when I first upgraded to 8 and didn't realize it). Anyway..I don't want this to happen. I want an empty track with an empty channel strip setting. Is this normal or is this a bug?
Also, I have been having an issue with East West Pianos. I noticed something strange today. After I installed Logic 9 I went and loaded a big piano patch in east west pianos. The hit to my ram was approx. 500-600 Mbs. I pulled up the activity monitor and noticed that the EW Play memory server used up another 200 Mbs. I started playing some high note content piano and it worked like a dream......at first. Then after playing for about five minutes I started getting real bad pops in the audio. I launched the activity monitor and the system memory was almost completely used up. And almost all of the memory was allocated to "inactive" memory. It was about 4.5 Gbs!!!. I only Had 18 Mbs of system memory left (out of 6 Gbs)!!!!
All of this memory got used up simply by playing the East West Piano.. What is inactive memory and why does it take away available memory? anybody know? Logic 9 in 32 bit mode. Rob