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Hey everyone.

 

I figured a lot of you have experience with this. I know there are many things that can help improve performance.

 

Does anyone have experience specifically with just deleting big projects, and files? should that alone , if enough disk space becomes available , be a very good optimization?

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FYI, "performance," as we toss-around the world in casual use, can mean just about anything – you really need to get specific. Not only about what the word means to you, but in exactly what situation you start to think about it, and exactly why (in that situation ...) you think that "performance" is now lacking – what exactly makes you think that it now is. Notice the word, "exactly."
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I agree with Mike. If the issue is that you're using too much disk space, then take care of that. If you're using too much RAM, see how you can use less or get more RAM. But getting more RAM when you're using running out of disk space — or getting a new drive when the issue is you need more RAM isn't likely to help.

 

So the first thing to do is to determine where or when you're hitting the limits of your Mac's resources, and WHICH resources you're being limited by: is it the CPU? The Hard Drive space? The Hard Drive speed? The RAM? What are the symptoms?

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Modern file-systems – for Mac, Windows, and Linux – are all built to handle "massively large disks" and to self-manage themselves so that performance remains stable as files – millions of them – are created, modified, and deleted. Whether the drive is empty or full. The days of "disk defragmenters" are long gone.

 

If you're encountering issues or limitations, they usually come down to one of two things: either you are encountering a hardware "pinch point" such as memory availability or disk input/output access time, or you are simply asking Logic to do more in real time than it is capable of doing on your machine. This is one reason why Logic made "bouncing and freezing" so very easy to do (and, redo).

 

When you use these features, Logic is now able to "take more than one second to prepare one second's worth of music." (It isn't real time anymore.) The generated audio track then substitutes for the process that was used to prepare it, which is turned-off. Logic's designers knew that this feature would be very important, so they lavished a lot of their attention on it. Once you take "in real time" out of the picture, your options increase enormously.

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