DaniGordon Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 And after 3:30 hours of installation!!!!! I'm finally running Logic Studio. Didn't have the courage to go 8.0.1 yet. I'm still finding myself in 8.0, so maybe I'll wait a little bit more. Maybe after all the complains a 8.0.2 is on the way. Anyway. For me, on a mini Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, the performance it's a little worst compared to Logic 7.2.3. On a Sculpture benchmark test, I was running 23 instances of the instrument (playing a lot of notes together) in Leopard (22 on Tiger) without a system overload. The CPU was hitting 90/92% though on those tests. Now with Logic 8.0.0 I can run also 23 instances without overload but just after starting the song a few times. It takes 5 or 6 song starts until I can run the 23 Sculptures. But the CPU hits 99% and I can feel it's harder to the little but brave machine. And one very curious thing is that using 1024 buffer size, the performance is worst! I get overload every time with the higher buffer size. Using 256 gives me no overload messages. I'm using the latest Motu driver (1.4.6). Using OSX's built in Core Audio its' also worst. Anyway. I hope future Leopard and Logic updates can give me better performance. Also I'll put more RAM. Thinking about buying OWC's 3 GB package. Here are some pics on two different song moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el-bo Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 well, you obviously know that 23 instances of sculpture in a project isn't that common, but good to know....will try that on my 'puter...see how much i can get on my macbook pro 2.33 with 2 g.... also, i noticed that you have a mac that looks like a pc ....a lot of stuff happening in the os background.....airport being on for instance....disable this for even more resources......and all that other shizzle in your menu-bar......check your activity monitor for clues on how all of this impacts performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicianista Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Yes. Kill all the eye candy. Turn off all the bells and whistles that Leopard adds to run in the menu bar at the top of the screen. I also use a program called DashboardKiller that switches off all the widgets that may be running in the background. You can toggle them back on with this app. Logic doesn't need anything else using valuable ram or cpu cycles. Run your test again with all these things off. Maybe it won't make any difference? Who knows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaniGordon Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 well, you obviously know that 23 instances of sculpture in a project isn't that common, but good to know....will try that on my 'puter...see how much i can get on my macbook pro 2.33 with 2 g.... Yeah, I know, I know. This is a extreme performance test. Usually I just use 3 or 4 Sculptures and not playing those 20 notes together. I'm curious to know your results. And I'm very satisfied with the mini C2D performance, cause I was using Logic Pro 7.2 with my old G4 1.25 GHz. I could only run 2 or 3 Sculptures with that exactly same session. So, 20 more instruments made my day. also, i noticed that you have a mac that looks like a pc ....a lot of stuff happening in the os background.....airport being on for instance....disable this for even more resources......and all that other shizzle in your menu-bar......check your activity monitor for clues on how all of this impacts performance Well, the only thing that is running is the iStat Menu thing on the Menu Bar. No other program is running. Airport will decrease performance as well? I didn't know. I'll try disable everything and will do the test again. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaniGordon Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 Yes. Kill all the eye candy. Turn off all the bells and whistles that Leopard adds to run in the menu bar at the top of the screen. I also use a program called DashboardKiller that switches off all the widgets that may be running in the background. You can toggle them back on with this app. Logic doesn't need anything else using valuable ram or cpu cycles. Run your test again with all these things off. Maybe it won't make any difference? Who knows... There's no eye candy. Just iStat Menu running on the Menu Bar. I have two Widgets running at the time. Tiny URL and Calendar. I'll do the test again without them running. But I don't think 2 widgets take that much power. But I'll try. As I said, I'm very satisfied with the performance I'm getting. For a mac mini it's ok for me. That's what I expected. 10 times better than my single G4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el-bo Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 yeah musicianista.....widets........ i use ONYX....download it for free...just google can customize os more deeply, including widgets, but is very useful for cleaning duties so definately turn airtport off....i would say widgets as well, because whether they are constantly on or you don't use that many, i believe os x keeps things in memory in anticipation of future use....this allows things to restart quicker.... i believe this is the reason that it's best to run logic after a restart because allocation is given to previous programs so that they may reload quicker on request.....this may not be true, but i'm sure i've read it somewhere.... load logic.......then quit logic......then re-load.....it should run quicker the second time....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaniGordon Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 So, just installed 8.0.1. Let's see what's happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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