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Posted by meriter on Sep-13-2009 04:27:

Growing quite tired of this...

Will someone please buy me a new Mac?

Posted by sixofour.604 on Sep-13-2009 04:53:

Posted by EgosXII on Sep-13-2009 05:40:

Re: Growing quite tired of this...

quote:
Originally posted by meriter

Will someone please buy me a new Mac?

ha, i'm exactly the same!

it's so fucking irritating, especially since it always happens when you're in the serious stages of a track

Posted by meriter on Sep-13-2009 05:42:

Re: Re: Growing quite tired of this...

quote:
Originally posted by EgosXII
ha, i'm exactly the same!

it's so fucking irritating, especially since it always happens when you're in the serious stages of a track

well make sure you've got your i/o buffer set to 1024. If you still have problems try using the lighter effects. "Space Designer" is what's killing my processor.

Posted by EgosXII on Sep-13-2009 05:51:

Re: Re: Re: Growing quite tired of this...

quote:
Originally posted by meriter
well make sure you've got your i/o buffer set to 1024. If you still have problems try using the lighter effects. "Space Designer" is what's killing my processor.

i use camelspace and camelphat really heavily, as well as the psp vintage warmer.. i think that's what's making mine struggle..

Posted by Existo22 on Sep-13-2009 06:31:

Re: Growing quite tired of this...

quote:
Originally posted by meriter

Will someone please buy me a new Mac?

Plus 1. I feel you 100%.

Things that help:
1 More RAM.
2 Keeping the internal harddrive of the G5 no more than 75% full.
3 Freezing tracks.

Selling that dual G5 and moving to a mac pro would be good if only I had about $3500.
Not right now.

Posted by Fledz on Sep-13-2009 09:13:

Bounce to audio?

I never thought I would see the all powerful Mac struggling along...

Posted by EgosXII on Sep-13-2009 09:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Fledz
Bounce to audio?

I never thought I would see the all powerful Mac struggling along...

once the 30th channel is reached, fx maxed... even the best would struggle..

and bouncing is a solution, but i cbf

Posted by Fledz on Sep-13-2009 09:50:

It takes like 10 seconds. Don't be lazy.

Posted by EgosXII on Sep-13-2009 11:17:

it's so permanent once bounced tho.. i make changes every time i open a project pretty much.. once i've bounced it i'd probably just get sick of it

Posted by LoveHate on Sep-13-2009 12:00:

fl studio>>

Posted by EgosXII on Sep-13-2009 12:29:

quote:
Originally posted by LoveHate
fl studio>>

i'll never be that lazy

Posted by owien on Sep-13-2009 12:44:

lol i thought logic had auto save?

Posted by Zak McKracken on Sep-13-2009 13:15:

not logic, mac in general has.

Posted by owien on Sep-13-2009 13:32:

quote:
Originally posted by palm
not logic, mac in general has.
ah i see a classic case of saving projects as you go then

Posted by meriter on Sep-13-2009 15:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Fledz
Bounce to audio?

I never thought I would see the all powerful Mac struggling along...

I'll have you know that I'm running Logic 8 on a dual 1.0 ghz PowerPC G4 with 1 gig of Ram. This comp was new in 2000. I'm amazed at how well it does actually. I feel like a crybaby for posting this thread now that I put things into perspective.

Posted by DigiNut on Sep-13-2009 16:11:

quote:
Originally posted by EgosXII
it's so permanent once bounced tho.. i make changes every time i open a project pretty much.. once i've bounced it i'd probably just get sick of it

You don't have to delete the source material... just turn off the instrument/FX once it's bounced (you CAN do that in Logic, can't you?).

If you make a habit of doing that and keep CPU/memory usage low, then you should be able to reactivate at least a few instruments at a time without running into any resource issues.

Plus, a little permanency is probably a good thing, forces you to stop fiddling with minor details and just get things done.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Sep-13-2009 16:14:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
Plus, a little permanency is probably a good thing, forces you to stop fiddling with minor details and just get things done.

Posted by Zak McKracken on Sep-13-2009 16:24:

freezing is good thinking anyway. u can use the parts in other songs, daws, etc later. wavs are forever, software is not.

Posted by cryophonik on Sep-13-2009 16:26:

Re: Growing quite tired of this...

quote:
Originally posted by meriter

Will someone please buy me a PC and punch that annoying little "I'm a Mac" fruitcake in the nuts for me?

fixed.

Posted by Eric J on Sep-13-2009 17:16:

quote:
Originally posted by DigiNut
just turn off the instrument/FX once it's bounced (you CAN do that in Logic, can't you?).

Logic does this automatically once a track is frozen.

Posted by Magnus on Sep-13-2009 18:24:

Don't feel too bad. I'm using Cubase 5 on a PC and constantly get a smiliar error to yours, "CPU Overload." Never had these problems on the same hardware with previous versions of Cubase. Very frustrating.

Posted by meriter on Sep-14-2009 03:18:

What do you guys mean by "freezing" tracks?

Posted by sixofour.604 on Sep-14-2009 04:07:

In Cubase you click a freeze track button, and the whole channel [say, your bass] is turned into a big as wav file and that is played instead of the FX and Synth..it saves cpu. I guess logic has this ability aswell.

Posted by Eric J on Sep-14-2009 04:27:

In Logic, you have to change a setting to get the button to show up.

1. Right-click any track in the Arrange window and choose Configure Track Header

2. A dialogue will appear, place a check next to the Freeze option. It is a green square with an asterisk (*) in it.

3. Press close and you'll see the freeze button appear on each track.

When you freeze track(s) in Logic, you press the button to choose which tracks to freeze. Then you have to hit Play to begin the freeze process. Once a track is frozen, the only settings that can be changed are Volume, Mute, Solo, and Routing.

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