Thanks so much for the Mac report!! This is very exciting indeed.

I was a little confused about whether "maximum loaded" meant the same as "maximum loadable". These can mean different things, but because of the high CPU percentages, I'll take these to be the most that is reasonably allowed. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

With that sorted out, I'd like to know if having more RAM improves performance or in what ways having, say, 8 GB RAM in a G5 2 x 2.5 would have any significant impact on how VI would function.

I REALLY appreciated the extremely realistic and "stressy" systems and criteria for these tests.

Great job, Paul!!

hi all,

an am. question: is it possible to run "VIENNA INSTRUMENTS 01 SOLO STRINGS"(VI01) on a powerbook 12" 867 MHZ / 1.128 GB RAM / 10.4.3 / LogicPro 6.4.1 ? for instance, is it possible to write a single voice VI01 on one instruments track, freeze this and then go on to the next voice ? if yes, how many voices, in the foresaid environment, would then be possible ?

thanks for all, regards,

bastian

i remember an *inofficial report* (this was just an installation test) with a powerbook aluminium 1.1 GHz 2GB RAM - 1 instance of ViennaInstruments running well, although the number of stereo voices and CPU usage has not been checked in detail.
867 MHz is basically below our system requirements - it might work though if you handle it with care ....
christian

Hi JWL,

I will give you updates on different tests we´re running right now.

Basically you can load 2.7 GB of RAM, the more extra RAM, the better for your computer.

Let´s see what the future brings, I´m excited, too.

Best, Paul

Soundcard: RME HDSP MADI with 648 MADI Interface

Did you ever consider how much this was taxing your system?

We had a RME HDSP MADI pci, and the resources it taxed were huge.
Even if you only use a single stereo pair as your output, the card will tax the full resources it needs for ALL of it's outputs.
I don't think the driver ap has changed this since we had this problem and decided to revert back to our earlier Interface. At the time we were running on a G4 dual 1250...

We actually switched back to a RME 8 pci to free resources and kept this in the G5...

Anyho, Just a thought.

Thanx for thoses tests Paul.

Looking forward to the AU update..

@Paul said:

Hi JWL,

I will give you updates on different tests we´re running right now.

Basically you can load 2.7 GB of RAM, the more extra RAM, the better for your computer.

Let´s see what the future brings, I´m excited, too.

Best, Paul

Hi Paul! Thanks for the info. I'm finally making headway with my installation and will watch closely for your updates for the sake of comparison.

cheers,
JWL

Eummm! What's an instance? [*-)]

Say, in logic u open 3 VIs, then u have 3 instances. Instantiating merely means opening a plugin on a channel.

F.ex, I can run 12 VI instances before my CPU runs out of juice. [:)]

@Guy said:

Eummm! What's an instance? [*-)]

Computer slang for (in this case) a plug-in opened within a DAW.

Open 6 VSL plug-ins in 6 instrument channels in Logic and hey presto you have 6 "instances"

Julian

Vagn Luv and Julian, thanks for that "instant" explanation. [:)]

Hi Paul, I dissagree a little with U saying "The more RAM, the better":

Concerning the Performance of Logic, it should not make no difference, if U have 3, 4, or even 8 GB Ram.

Logic is unfortuneately only able to adress 2 GB RAM. The Rest of your Ram is just usefull, if U run other applikations. So I´d say, when U only compose music and don´t use any (Logic external-)standalone programs, there´s no need to buy more Ram.

I´d be really happy, if I was wrong or this would change soon.

Under this aspect: Wouldn´t it make sense to create Vienna Instruments as a standalone programm, which could adress 2 GB Ram in adition to the 2 GB adressed by Logic?

Best Felix.

@Felix Bartelt said:

Under this aspect: Wouldn´t it make sense to create Vienna Instruments as a standalone programm, which could adress 2 GB Ram in adition to the 2 GB adressed by Logic?

i suggested this too, also to the support of the Synthogy Ivory...
We have now computers that can hold up to 16 GB and still its not possible to take a real advantage of that!

Anyhow, i think they are working on it, but it takes time...

Greets:
HTF

@Felix Bartelt said:

Hi Paul, I dissagree a little with U saying "The more RAM, the better":

Concerning the Performance of Logic, it should not make no difference, if U have 3, 4, or even 8 GB Ram.

Logic is unfortuneately only able to adress 2 GB RAM. The Rest of your Ram is just usefull, if U run other applikations. So I´d say, when U only compose music and don´t use any (Logic external-)standalone programs, there´s no need to buy more Ram.

I´d be really happy, if I was wrong or this would change soon.

Under this aspect: Wouldn´t it make sense to create Vienna Instruments as a standalone programm, which could adress 2 GB Ram in adition to the 2 GB adressed by Logic?

Best Felix.

It's open to discussion but Logic currently addresses up to between 3 and 3.5 GB of RAM. Vienna instruments are already available as a standalone app.

I have so far maxed out a Logic session with VSL plug-ins then added 2 instances of standalone VSL (by copying and renaming the app to get a second stand alone opened this totaled over 6 GB of Vienna samples alone.

If you use Logic to it's full extent you will certainly notice the difference between 3GB and 4GB on your overall system performance.

Julian.

Just want to confirm what Julian has said. I've been running Logic with Logic utilizing over 3GB of RAM for more than a year.

Me three.

I use 'Rax' side by side with Logic. It's an AU virtual Rack. This allows me to access the full capacity of my 6.5GB Ram... Midi from Logic instrument to Rax via Iac Busses...

BTW. I thought that the VSL AU RAM usage was independant of Logic's own RAM. Is this not the case?

hi charl.

looked around for a while to get a simple AU - rack beside logic as you described.
... just downloaded the trial ...

but, how to get the audio signals in my RME digi 96 while logic is running ...

i´ll give it a try ...

best.

thomas