9.0.1 any early reports??

Question

9.0.1 has been released. Anybody have any early reports??
Thanks,
Curtis

Answer 1

OK, here goes.
In Logic Pro 9, if you instantiate an EXS24 and go under Options in the GUI, you will see a Virtual Memory options area. 2 new options were added: "On, optimized for EXS 24 instances" and On, optimized for AU SI instances"
They mean exactly what they say. In 9.0, if you choose the former, you can run a ton of EXS 24s (the memory pool kicks in at a little after 1.5 GB) but ten if you start to add i.e. Omnispheres, Logic goes kablooey. If you choose the latter, you can load a surprisingly large number of 3rd party software instruments, but then if start adding more EXS24s, Logic goes kablooey.
So its is do you wish to die by drowning or by burning? Laughing
But Apple has done something under the hood with 9.0.1. Now if you choose the option prioritizing the AUs , you can also add a considerable number of EXS24s.
I have a now lowly Quad Core with 13 GB RAM under 10.6.1 and I was able to successfully load and run:
28 EXS24s
17 Kontakts
1 Play for Stormdrum 2, 4 sounds loaded
1 Omnisphere
1 Altiverb
UAD-2 FX, 1 each: Plate 140, Pultec, Precision EQ, Precision Limiter
At that point Logic became 2 sluggish to be practical.
But there is more. When you are adding instruments, at some point Logic will give you a warning that you are doing so and suggest you cut it out. (If you do not, Logic will tell you that the project has crashed, save it for you, and quit.)
When you get the warning, if you quit Logic and then re-open the project, suddenly you can add even more. I tried this 4 times and each time I could ad a little more.
Now I am not advocating pushing it to the max as I am sure Logic will get flakey and between EXS24's memory management scheme and Kontakt's memory server, I no longer trust anything Activity Monitor tells me, but clearly this is a big improvement in LP 9.0.1.
With today's computers and LP 9.0.1 and something like VE Pro and/or Plogue Bidule, I think we are at the beginning of an era where the CPU and RAM bottlenecks for running lots of software instrument instances will be a thing of the past. Very exciting.