All the contestants who met the deadline, submitting there remix, should be entitled to at least one free Mac Pro Video of there choice as a reward for their patience.

Empty Promises

thank you for the offer of 50% off, but when will that happen?

don't know what time zone you're in? FYI, the Monday deadline has nearly come and gone.

I am wondering if there is even a mac book pro on hand to present to the winner or was it a Sony Vaio?

I guess we are all winners at this point.

1. 32bit logic does not have enough internal memory to run even fairly modest 3rd party libraries/plug-ins. 2. therefore logic would have to become 64bit which is NOT going to happen for many VERY good reasons, or else the 3rd party plug-ins will have to use the same mmap trick as the exs24. 3. the mmap functionality requires a certain amount of internal logic memory to make work. this severely curtails the amount of memory you have for your 3rd party stuff, which is why reducing your physical RAM could actually increase how much you have available for logic. the amount of memory logic sets aside to run mmap is set in your plist file. even a fairly low level programmer could adjust this. i have had mine adjusted and it has made a huge difference. 4. the only real solution for those who are working with a fair amount of 3rd party stuff is to use an AU host. this really is not the end of the world and actually brings its own benefits. in this case a 32bit au host has its own 4 Gb memory space which makes far better use of your systems RAM. 5. logic is much more stable close to its memory limits than it ever has been before, but it reaches the limit far sooner because of the 512 Mb set aside to run mmap. i stress, if you are running close to the memory limit you need to consider another AU host. 6. it absolutely has nothing to do with computer model, intel vs PPC, or whether your RAM is paired, coloured purple or has furry dice hanging off of it. it is all to do with the internal RAM address space limitation with logic. some further thoughts: - generally if you get the unable to save message, it may save anyway. look for the file with a tilda ( ~ ) after it. - there are many features in logic which have not been thought all the way through; file management, communication with other DAWs, beat mapping, working with video, the library drawer, score editing, and finally mmap. mmap was clearly meant to address the problem of working with large libraries and is partially a good solution. but the reality is, most modern sound libraries are only available for 3rd parties plug-ins and not available for the exs. missing this point makes the mmap virtually a redundant feature - how can you miss it? simply saying its up to the 3rd party manufacturers to sort out is not helpful to the poor user who is wondering why their expensive macpro with a gazillion gigabytes of RAM falls over sooner and runs no faster than their old coal-powered G5. having spoken to very smart programmers not related to logic development (that i know of) there are a myriad ways of exploiting RAM on your system and certain advantages at least in the short term to remaining a 32bit application. logic developers have not thought all the way through the problem of running large libraries and this annoys me somewhat. an integrated secondary hosting program such as RAX or plogue bidule, created by the logic developers would be much easier and more efficient to manage, more tightly integrated and would make a lot more sense than an obscure programming trick that they didn't even announce when it came out. a big problem of running combined libraries is that when switching songs, the 3rd party samples have to be reloaded. keeping them in plogue bidule running in rewire, means that switching songs takes a fraction of the time it used. the technology exists for logic to run a secondary application very easily and would have been a far more practical and obvious solution than the one they came up with, because the situation as we have it means that people get burned all the time as they come against the memory wall.

I have a new Mac Pro 8 Core system which has 32GB of Ram installed. Everything has been great, until now when I start getting these memory errors also. I use mainly all software synths, EXS24 with its Virtual Memory turned on, Komplete 5 with the along with all the others, Rob Pappen, Re FX etc etc. When i open my projects, its already using 3.3GB of VM. If I do a simple save (before even playing through or recording any midi or loading any more synths) the VM jumps up to 3.6 another save pushes it to 3.8 and then 1 more save pushes it to 3.99GB where it crashes. Is there not a way to increase the VM or is logic only capable of addressing up to 4GB? Why doesnt it use Real memory first? As when it crashes it says its only addressing 2.17GB of 'Real Memory'?

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I have had all the issues with memory and plenty more using Logic Pro 9/9.0.1 at the Apple Store during One To One Training and have seen the trainer during workshops and events experience these as well. It is only a matter of time before the Logic Pro 9/9.0.1 will misbehave for anyone else if it has not already. The consensus has become, if I want to accomplish anything with Logic Pro, I need to bring my external startup disk with Logic Pro 8.0.2/7.2.3, my xskey, and my third party Audio Unit plugins installed/activated to the Apple Store for my training. The other approach I discovered success with is using Presonus Studio One Pro instead of Logic Pro 9/9.0.1 or even Logic Pro 8.0.2 in some instances. I use Kontakt 3.5 and Kontak Memory Server by the way and alot of other AU's. FYI East West Play is not running well with Leopard/SL and Logic Pro 9/9.0.1 as an alternative either. The only difference between 3.5 and 4 is that NI discontinued separate plugins for the B4 II, Pro-53, Akoustik, and Elektrik Piano. They will now be utilized for more popular and versatile products like Kontakt, Guitar Rig etc. Akoustik Piano: The sounds of this instrument can and should be used with the free Kontakt Player, which is a much better platform regarding its sample engine and compatibility. "The four individual piano models will also be re-issued as Kontakt-Powered instruments for download in the near future. The sounds of Elektrik Piano are also now part of the Kontakt 4 factory library, so they continue to be available within Komplete." New Product Alert! PreSonus Studio One http://www.macprovideo.com/forum/logic/logic-pro-express&id=20454&sid=0 "PLAY is supposed to use all available ram in the mac, but at least with L9 it's really hard to get it to do that. With L8 you should be able to get decent results with 6-8 gigs of ram. Much more than that will be wasted - on L9 I have memory warnings in Logic with over 6 gigs sitting there unused. You can freeze parts (or bounce in place with L9) - good to free up CPU use if that's the weak link, but to save ram you'd have to completely remove the instrument to free it up which is a pain. I really wish there was an option in Logic to completely disable plugins. I usually kept the buffer at one of the middle settings, didn't seem to make much difference either way for PLAY unless it was set really high or really low. EW recommends putting each instrument in a separate instance of the plugin for optimal CPU use, which worked pretty well in L8. Unfortunately, doing that in L9 eats up tons of memory fast so I've been using multis. The down side of that is that each multi is all on one CPU core, so initially I had my orchestral template on four multis, but that slammed four CPU cores and left the other four totally empty. My latest attempt has them spread over seven (which does leave one core open, but I'll have times where I want to add more stuff), which seems like a decent compromise for an 8 core machine, although I'm still getting some memory warnings. I'll have to see if it's stable like this. Of course, EW blames Logic for the memory problems, but I'll keep following up with them and see if I can find anything else out. They are supposed to have an update in the works for 10.6 compatibility, but it has been a while with no news." Topic : Anyone having good results with EWQLSO (or other PLAY libraries) and Logic? http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10269390&#10269390 B4 II has been discontinued - please read here for the details http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92746