Quad G5 - Does Logic use all 4 CPU's?

I think I read it in this forum, but at any rate, if you open the Activity Monitor utility in your Mac it will show Logic using all 4 processors (or both dual-cores if you will).

Depending on the future Intel based releases from Apple and whether or not they continue with the 4 processor approach, Logic will probably go through another semi-major upgrade in order to fully utilize all that processing power....... but who knows!!!

Matt

Try this:

Start a new session, or open an existing one, and start inserting a lot of CPU heavy plugs like sculpture and space designer until both processor meters in logic are reading at least 25% each. Now open up activity monitor and observe what the overall CPU usage is.

In theory, if activity monitor also shows that overall CPU usage is 25%(or whatever you're observing in Logic's CPU meters), then Logic is using all 4 cores. However, if activity monitor shows only ~12.5% CPU usage, that would indicate that Logic is only addressing 2 cores.

This should work, but please correct me if I'm wrong about this procedure.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since the Quad has two chips, but there are two processors stacked on each chip, wouldn't it only show up as two CPU's?

Activity monitor shows four seperate CPU meters on a quad. I assume Logic will do the same once they update it.

Running logic, from looking at AM, it seems that all four are being used, and their use is fairly equal overall.

I have experiment my Quad with Logic to try to put it on it's knees with playing simultaneous 480 voices (20 tracks of 24 notes) with the EXS at tempo 220, not using VM

I confirm the 4 proc are used

Logic show "core audio overload" when there is still "power" available (about 50 % on each proc)

So it looks that Logic add 2 proc to be in the "red"

Apple can you fix this ?

Best

Cyril