"Faster" by Plaid....which mac was it made on?

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"Faster" by Plaid....which mac was it made on?

I tried playing the demo songs that came with Logic Studio. I certainly can't play this song (by Plaid) on my macs (intel core duo with 2 GB RAM). Has anyone tried on their's?

Posted on Oct 7, 2007 8:28 PM

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Oct 7, 2007 9:08 PM in response to swanusa

Hi Swan

Sorry you're having that problem; it played fine on my G5, and I think it's the most creative track of the 4 demo songs. Also the heftiest, though it loads really quick. Did you try bouncing it so you could at least hear it?

* solo *

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swanusa Author

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Oct 8, 2007 3:35 PM in response to swanusa

Hey thanks for your reply! G5 is powerpc right? Not intel mac? I hope that this song plays on other macs and not just towers. Has anyone else tried on Macbook pros? I am intersted in getting a core 2 duo Macbook pro and I hope it's fast enough.

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Oct 8, 2007 4:28 PM in response to swanusa

All of the Logic Studio demos run just fine on my 2.4 C2D MacBook Pro. Most hardly register much activity on the CPU meters. Any hiccups would most likely be the fault of running them from your system drive. All in all, MBP + Logic Studio has been a very powerful and impressive combination.

Message was edited by: Joel Kanning

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Oct 8, 2007 4:29 PM in response to Joel Kanning

Works here on my MBPro 2.3GHZ C2D but only on the second run through after cancelling half a dozen system overload messages (grrrr!)

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swanusa Author

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Oct 8, 2007 7:02 PM in response to Joel Kanning

I have an external drive and that's where I'm running it from. Has anybody else tried it on their core duos (Mac mini or Macbook), not core 2 duos? If yes, my machine might be having the overload problem that others are complaining about in the other thread. I hope that's the case. 🙂

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swanusa Author

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Oct 8, 2007 7:36 PM in response to swanusa

I actually tried the benchmark song again and it runs 13 tracks on my mac mini with Logic Pro 8, exactly the number of tracks Logic 7 could run. Anyway, I don't think this song will run on Macbooks or Mac minis (at least the core duos). I just checked and this song has enormous amount of plugins, effects. It uses compressors, channel eqs, limiters, gain, phasers, vsts, space desingers, etc. I just don't know if there's anything that there is in Logic that's not been used for this song. LOL.

What an awesome song! Very different flavor.

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Oct 8, 2007 8:58 PM in response to swanusa

Yeah, very "glitchy" little tune. Weird, but cool. One more plug for the MacBook Pro here - 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo, 4 GB RAM - awesome machine! The "Faster" demo plays back flawlessly (from the system drive), and there were only a couple times where ONE of the processors pegs up to 100%, while the other bobbles around 25% or so. I was even opening plugins and messing around with settings, checking email, poking around this site, etc...

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Oct 8, 2007 11:38 PM in response to swanusa

Same happen untill i load the Demo onto a second H.D. and it played without a glich.

Fr.BlayZay.

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David_Pye

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Oct 9, 2007 2:18 AM in response to swanusa

I could run this song just fine, played smoothly without hiccup on a Macbook Core Duo 1.83Ghz 2GB Ram.

It was running on an external hard drive, but then EVERYTHING I do runs on an external HD so I'd expect it to work.
I don't think it's THAT demanding an arrangement. My Macbook has run far more demanding Audio sessions before with way more processing than this.

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