bufjap Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 What is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 That's ye olde System Performance Meter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bufjap Posted May 19, 2010 Author Share Posted May 19, 2010 What tis that meaneth? Be that a meter for Logic, or for my beloved CPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamthecrank Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Well, not to be a smart-arse, but it meters your "System Performance"... in other words, your beloved CPU. See those meters above the word "audio"? Those are your computer processor's 8-cores. The meters are telling you that one of the cores is working to churn out your audio. Sometimes you'll light up all eight cores - and that's when you win Logic-Bingo. I'm not at liberty to tell you what you "win" tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bufjap Posted May 19, 2010 Author Share Posted May 19, 2010 I've noticed that it seems like usually the far right one always get lighted up and the others not so much. But that's when Logic starts to pop and crackle and seems like it's going to over load. Is there any way to "share" the load across the other cores? And what is the Disk I/O? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Disk I/O stands for input/output and relates to how much your hard drive is working in Logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redlogic Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Is there any way to "share" the load across the other cores? Written for Logic 8, but also true for L9. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3161 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bufjap Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 Well, below that CPU meter is an HD meter. What does that mean? And also, what is Disk I/O?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Hard Drive. It measures data streaming from and to the Hard Drive. Same thing as Disk I/O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkecho Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 David, forgive me if this should be obvious, but is it the system drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 David, forgive me if this should be obvious, but is it the system drive? It's not necessarily obvious. The answer is, it monitors whatever drive you're using. If your project is on your system drive, then the Disk meter shows data streaming from that system drive. If it's on another drive, then it shows data streaming from that other drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkecho Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Ah! interesting. I was wondering because I sometimes run my project off of the system drive, but my samples off of an external harddrive. So that helps to know which one it is. I usually run two drives (The internal system, and an external for samples) So if the project file is on the external with the samples, then I can see the performance of that drive that houses both the samples and the project file, but if the project file is on the system drive, then I'll be seeing the performance of the system drive only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkecho Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Or, when you said "whatever drive you're using" does that mean that if it is accessing samples on an external, but the project is on the internal, that the meter is showing the sum of activity on both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkecho Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 David, I just did a test to confirm my suspicions on the operation of this meter but it is not behaving for me the way you say it should. Here's the test: 1. I have a project folder, audio files, and project file all on my external drive, it has a mix of software instruments and audio tracks, about 30 tracks total. I load it up from the external drive, hit play, and the HD bar starts to move up about 1/8th of the meter. Light usage. It spikes when I skip around, but generally hovers right there at 1/8th the length of the meter. 2. I move that same project to my desktop - which is on the internal drive, except I delete everything in the project folder except the project file, forcing the project file to reference the external HDD for everything it needs (there is NO data on my internal drive that logic should be streaming or accessing except Logic itself). The HD performance bars show exactly the same performance of 1/8th. My eyes could be playing tricks on me, but it actually appeared that the HD bar was displaying even higher usage. The results of this experiment don't seem to indicate that logic uses whichever drive the project is launched from. I think it might be showing the drive on which the project audio files are located. Or is this what you meant and I just misinterpreted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 The results of this experiment don't seem to indicate that logic uses whichever drive the project is launched from. I think it might be showing the drive on which the project audio files are located. Or is this what you meant and I just misinterpreted? That's what I meant, I always, ALWAYS recommend saving consolidated projects, so for me a project is the whole project folder. Keep in mind the project file itself is loaded to RAM when you open it, so it doesn't use any hard drive resources except at the time you open it and whenever you save it. Only the project's audio files require hard drive resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkecho Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Is there any special one must do to save a consolidated project? I thought Logic does that by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Is there any special one must do to save a consolidated project? I thought Logic does that by default. Projects are, indeed, consolidated by default - which is why I didn't think of mentioning it in my first answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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