An 800 MHz Power PC is definitely not powerful enough to run Sculpture. Sculpture is, perhaps the hungriest CPU hog in the Logic arsenal. Sculpture will sometime pull down my Core Due Intel Laptop especially when its polyphony is way up! However, you should be able to run most of Logic's less hungry soft synths like the es series and the EXS 24. Sculpture, EVB6 and Space Designer may not be in your future unless you upgrade you CPU! Good Luck!

Yup that's me! If I were buying a new computer I would absolutely buy the new 8 core macs that were just announced yesterday. You can bet your last melody that the new version of Logic (which should be out soon) will be optimized for that 8 core architecture. Igor.. I mean, Steve! :)

Advice from Igor: The length of a song doesn't, for the most part, affect the CPU. However, here's a huge tip to help you out: In CPU hungry softsynths, reduce the polyphony to the bare minimun you need to play the composed part. For instance, some of the control trip setings "boot up" with plugin polyphonys of 32, which in Sculpture, will eat up tons of CPU. The same concept applies to the EXS and other "CPU friendly" plugins too. I always "trim" my polyphony to match the part. Also, if you have lot's of plugins on the "output" channel to "master as you go", his, too, will tax the system. In a CPU intensive song, do your mastering "after" you mix/bounce as a separate "mastering" bounce. Here's a list of the hungriest plugins: Sculpture- especially when you have string animation enabled, AND, even more important, when you have the ADSR's attack set above "0"... because when it's set above "0" Sculpture re-attacks an already vibrating wave and the calculations are astronomical. Space Designer -The longer the delay, the more CPU! Ad Limiter Linear Phase EQ Guitar Amp Pro -I like to use this a lot and it really eats up CPU. And any plugin that has a "look-ahead" function eneabled. I hope this helps! Steve (Igor)

If they are .wav files, the EXS24 will play them.

No, you don't need Redmatica... Logic uses Aiff and Wav files interchangeably. .Wav files are just fine to use to build EXS Instruments.

Have you installed the Firewire 410, and Keystation updated USB drivers?. If not, you can located them on the manufacterer's website. Disconnect your interface and controllers, install the drivers, boot down, reconnect the interface/controllers, reboot... and see if that helps. The Roland has a MIDI (not USB) out so it won't need a driver update.

They never really took off because, unlike PT, Logic's key commands are user defined. The best thing to do is assign your own key commands in way that you'll remember them. And, don't add them randomly... when you find that you're doing certain procedures over and over again, assign it to a key command. And browse thru the available commands and try out some off the more esoteric ones. The ones with the dots next to them are only available as key commands!

[quote:13535]Thank you Steve. By the way, I really like all your tutorials...they're great! How about a Mixing&Mastering tutorial with tips&tricks from a pro? This would be like Christmas for me. ;-) heimi[/quote]

Thanks for the compliment!

Sorry... I didn't see your thread... Christian beat me to the punch!