i've been waiting to upgrade to leopard, and i'd be interested if anyone has done an os upgrade and could provide some feedback regarding logic 8's performance.
In my humble opinion, Logic 8 is a little bit more "heavy" than 7. I have a Macbook Pro 2.0GHZ with "only" two Gigs of ram, and using Guitar Rig 3 and "a few tracks" (between 5-10) with GR3, collapses the CPU. This may be related to GR3 rather than logic, but Logic 7 seemed to show this behaviour a little bit less.
On the other hand, Logic 8 Pro takes more time to load (the difference may be less than 5 secs, but there's difference).
Other than that, I haven't tested 'em both side by side. I stoped using Logic 7 because 8 is way superior (IMO).
I agree completely with Tom. I have tested Leopard using a clone of my main startup drive (made with Carbon Copy Cloner (free) which makes block by block clones that preserve software licenses - - which Super Duper does not. Although I love features like Spaces - - which is like having several monitors - -I immediately noticed a performance hit in regard to Logic 8: I could run fewer virtual instruments, effects etc. In other words, if possible, stay with Tiger. On the other hand, Leopard is great on MacPro desktops whose computing power more than compensates for Leopard's increased CPU demands.
Stephen Siegel wrote:
...which makes block by block clones that preserve software licenses - - which Super Duper does not...
Slightly OT here, but I use Super Duper (left CCC for it, because of how it will update clone drives, saving literally hours of time), and have booted and run Logic, along with all my software instruments, from the Super Duper'd drive, with no authorizations issues whatsoever.
some people warn that leopard & logic 8 is not the best.
speaking for myself: I have 2 mac systems. 1. iMac core duo 2.16 + 2gm ram - runs leo + logic 8 with line6 gearbox plugins and battery 3, perfect, no problems, hardly any overloads, (can't remeber when i had the last one and I worked wuite heavily with it the last days).
really nice
2.macbook pro 2.4ghz -2gbram: (also leo plus L8)totally differnet story.
cpy spikes radomly, overloads all the time, can even run 2 track reliable.
This stinks. the mbp is not usable for audio purposes.
In both cases i use a alesis io26, which seems the most stable part of the setup.
problems are caused by some apple issuses (L8
mbpleo) and line 6 stuff as well.
i both are fixing their issues soon !!!.
I wanna be able to mix mobile. (long hours in airplaines get boring ... )
