@snajand said:

Hm true.

I guess in the case of using VE it wouldn't make sense indeed.  But what about with VI, wouldn't loading a lot of instances of VIs in logic benefit from a 64 bit host?  or are instances of VI connected to each other other than through the host?  I guess they'd have to make Logic 64bit able to open 32bit plugins....

I think I'm overreacting because I expected a lot more from this new version of Logic.

snajand

It would only really make sense if VI was a 64bit plug. If not, then Logic would have to use some sort of bridging technology, which might work, but you would have no guarantees. I think you are better of with your 32bit sequencer and VE Pro.

I think all ProApps will get an update when Snow is out. Then you will get two things: 29€ for Snow, free update for your ProApp, and so you will be happy to have to buy an Intel Mac [;)] 

Hello

I had French Logic support, Logic 9 is 64 bit.

It is not advertised because Snow Leopard is not out !!

Best

Cyril

@Cyril said:

Hello

I had French Logic support, Logic 9 is 64 bit.

It is not advertised because Snow Leopard is not out !!

Best

Cyril

finally!!

... long awaited

64 bit means we can have more instruments working within logic. Not just VI but EXS 24, and all other plugs. I have quite a few 64 bit ready plugs myself so I'm looking forward to it. All I want to do is to be able to fill about 6 gig of RAM with my VI orchestra .. and have another gig free for some of the synth plugs I use .. then I could do everything on the one laptop. which would so kick ass.

I hope the upgrade to Logic 9 isn't too expensive though. I've rather enjoyed using Logic 8 .. even though the score editor is still crap for full orchestra. Hopefully that's something else they've sorted out .. or I'll seriously be looking into Finale for my next sequencer.

Jeez .. so much stuff to podcast on :P .. Yeah yeah I know I'm somewhat behind on that. All I can say is I've been real busy. But I'm planning to get a new show together to talk about my findings of the Vienna Suite, some other plug and software appraisals and perhaps even some thoughts on MIR and intergrating it into the studio setup. But my next imminent topic will be VE Pro.

I have new templates and such ready, with what I think it a nice sound and I'll be looking to explain all this soon. So if anyones still interested in the Podcast, it is coming back again. It's just taken the long way round to get there :P, but at least I've got lots to talk about now.

@hetoreyn said:

64 bit means we can have more instruments working within logic. Not just VI but EXS 24, and all other plugs.

Not necessarily. Don't count your chickens until you have tested all this. EXS has been able to address more than Logic's allocation of RAM since Logic 8, so there is no change there. I would also beware of thinking that you can use most of your RAM on your lappie for loading samples. OSX needs loads of RAM to overcome the streaming limitations imposed by the OS. I hope you're not disappointed when you eventually get it all running.

DG

hehe .. you mention an interesting point. I actually intend to have the full 8 gig of ram in my laptop .. and basically having 2 gig set aside for Logic, OS, and other such things that need space. I have figured that my requirements for running a full orchestra is around the 5-6 gig region. This still leaves an adequate safety zone for running everything else.

I've been producing full orchestral work, with a few hic cups obviously, with only 4 gig of Ram on a 2.4 ghz Macbook Pro. And that has served me pretty well thus far. I now have a 3 ghz Macbook Pro (17 inch) that can take upto 8 gig and so if Logic will play ball then I should actually have everything I want on one machine.

64 bit I think would be icing on the cake, ensuring that the Ram cap is suitably higher. But I can work without it if need be.

Overall I'm not so charged up about Logic 9 as I see no big improvements to the Score editor .. which it seriously needs. Seems that all they've done is incorporate stuff from Garageband into Logic. I'm sure there are some good improvements but I'm thinking it may be time for me to move on to an actual score sequencer and use Logic 8 as an audio multitrack system.

What i'd give for the boys at VSL to produce a sequencer .. man that'd be f**king sweet.

@hetoreyn said:

What i'd give for the boys at VSL to produce a sequencer .. man that'd be f**king sweet.

Yup, I've been saying that for years. But, you know, now that they have an integrated mixing/reverb environment, I'd have to say that an integrated 'scoring environment' would really be the next logical step. I'll believe when I see it, of course, but I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility. With the amount work they've obviously put into MIR I don't think anyone could say that creating a sequencer/scoring package would be "too much work." They seem to be dedicated to making the best possible experience for orchestral composition at the computer. And a score-based sequencer would really complete the picture.

J.

Well I just confirmed you can bounce in place multi-timbral tracks in Logic 9.  You couldn't do this before.  This allows you to know bounce each of your VE3 sessions into one audio file.  This can save massive utilization.  You also have the ability to bounce one part of the multi-timbral instrument allowing you to bounce all 16 seperately to their own individual track.

Maestro2be

Another few things to note.  The spread of CPU load for people who have 4-8 cores is significantly better.  It is well distributed now.

One of my personal favorites is that the system overload messages have disappeared when hitting play the first time on a track.  That always pissed me off.  Even with 1 track of a solo violin it would crash and system overload the first time hitting play.  That doesn't happen now.

Most people are claiming that they don't even experience system overload messages at all anymore.  It has only been a few days but some of us have been purposely trying to reproduce the problems logic 8 had.  So far it has been wonderful.  Sure it has some bugs to be worked out and probably more when Snow Leopard comes out, but for now it is running better then 8 did.  Unless of course you were one of the users that never used any of the features in Logic 8 that had a bug.

*Additional note - getting lots of positive feedback that 9 is curing sluggish plug-in responses (such as gui loading times etc).  However there are some plug-ins that are not working with it at the moment.

Maestro2be

Is the score editor any better? ... if it's still the same crap as in Logic 8 then it ain't worth the upgrade for me.

Same Crap.  The only thing I see upgraded for that is guitar tabletures.  They really focused on Guitar players for this upgrade (as far as extras were concerned).

The performance and being able to bounce multi-timbral tracks are nice.  So is the imrpoved stability (so far).  I also like being able to completely import my channel/track settings from another project.  I haven't tried using varispeed yet but that could be extremely helpful for live recording really tough parts.  That let's you slow down or speed up the entire mix temporarily while you record in a live performance.  Might be good for those super tough passages and give you time to wiggle all your controllers.

For what it's worth, the score looks prettier, but the functionality seems completely the same.  I am comparing the two manuals (8 and 9) at the moment to see if there really is any improvements.  They definitely didn't post any improvements to it.

I'm really wondering whether to bother updating.... The odd feature stands out but alot of it's updating features logic already has

Varispeed. You could do some of this before in L8 with "follow tempo". It's just a bit easier now. (still no graphical pitch fixing! crazy)

BTW You can already bounce VE tracks or instances into L8.(I use multi-instrument) Using Solo/mute and then bounce. Even offline.

The overload message and false starts are annoying and if it balances out CPU cores, on C2D?, that would be useful.

Thanks for the info cgernaey.

Paul

Actually the way it bounces multi's in Logic 8 isn't qutie the same.  Here is what I mean.

The Export All Tracks As Audio command is not as elegant as Bounce In Place.  It will allow you to bounce the multi outs to separate files but you'll have to manually drag them back into the project. Choose the "One File Per Channel Strip" option. It will produce a separate file for each multi-out.  That is fine and dandy but here is what bounce in place will do.

Bounce in place is a neat way of doing all this in one keystroke for a specific region, or the whole track. - render effects, copy sends, create new track, mute old region/trac, paste/drag new file to track at correct place.  I would suggest that soloing each aux then pressing "bounce in place" is quicker.  An option from within Bounce in Place to do it automatically would of course be golden.

I am starting a request to get the ability to be able to bounce all 16 seperately with one click and have it bounce all 16 at one time seperately and drop them into your mix.

Maestro2be

Yes.

I was working with Logic 9 this morning to do the bouncing one track at a time.  I have a couple of pieces with no more than 10 instruments each, and it was very nice to use.  I started with notating in Sib. 6, transferred to Logic 9, set up the Vienna instruments and/or Ensemble 3, and bounced from MIDI to Audio.  All of my dynamics are in place from Sibelius, and now I have nice Audio tracks to work with.  Enhancing the tracks with Logic's good reverb, and doing other mixing things is just great for me in Logic anyway.  I dumped all the MIDI tracks and saved as 'bounced' file.  I also saved just the MIDI version first, in case I need to deal with that.  It's so easy to use now.  In Logic 8 I never could do this kind of bounce, only the 'real-time' version would work for me. 

I'm pretty new at any kind of bouncing of tracks, but it's very appealing to just open the music now, without having to open VE3 or VI first, after I've got the basic tracks they way I want.

I'm appreciating some of the 'little' things, like change of placement for menu items that makes more sense to me, and the new white outline to tell me what area is selected.

Well base on what I've heard so far I think I'll skip this upgrade. Logic 9 doesn't do anything that Logic 8 doesn't already for me .. and it contains no new, or interesting features that I'd use.

I suppose Logic X (as I imagine they'll call it :P), will be the next port of call for me.

Well one thing you can be certain will happen, is that once Snow Leopard comes out you can expect some type of change over to 64-bit which might change your mind lol.  As they may not do one for 8.

Maestro2be

Oh I've no doubt about that .. any 64 bit functionality will no doubt be aimed at logic 9.1 .. and I say 9.1 cos I'm also use we can expect to pay an extra $20 for a minor upgrade to activate the 64 bit layer of Logic within OS 10.6

In anycase I've actually been fairly happy with my virtual orchestra with the limitations that I have. Of course I'm looking forward to the 64 bit lift just so that one can use more RAM .. which is really all I need. But I can manage in the meantime if I have to.

It does annoy me though that Windows is proving to be more effective for musicians seeing as how MIR cannot work for OS.X .. and that we can only run so much RAM in Logic .. and apple have been bragging about being 64 bit since 2004 (Or since the G5 came out anyways). I guess I just like the Mac platform and I'm disappointed to see it out performed by Windows.

: sigh : .. what can one do eh!