Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Ok, so Logic on the mac has just turned a bit shit. If you are running logic 9 on snow leopard at 32 bit which you pretty much have to as most plug-ins have not been upgraded to 64 bit, you are only allocated 4G of RAM, which means if you load a RAM heavy plug-in like Omnisphere, Trillion or Vienna, you constantly get 'you have no memory left' messages. Memory doesn't seem to refresh if you remove plug-ins, so I'm having to restart Logic all the time just to audition patches. Am I doing something wrong?

Omnisphere, Trillian, and Vienna are 100% all 64bit. There aren't many out there that aren't, and especially sample based libraries. Logic is semi 64bit, and should still open 32bit plugins.

Um, if you're RAM is overloading, then use the freeze function in Logic. This renders your instrument track, and therefore uses less RAM.

Pro Tools is better than Logic for a lot of things, reliability being one of them. However it's not great with VST's MIDI sequencing. Logic isn't what it once was. If ever I'm doing PC based music, I would opt for Ableton / Cubase, and a bit of logic if i need the instruments.

Generally I'd mix with Pro Tools though.