Cutting a max layered rug

['it would also be best if you made up environment layers for each section of the orchestra as this type of setup can look confusing if you have too much all on the one layer.'
this a quote from our dear fellow genius Rohan.]
My setup is like this with Environ: Instrument>Cable switcher>Transformers
So now I've reached that age, with 10 parts on one instrument and it's getting weighted on the Mac [space desinger hall reverb running to balance out the staccato on my Steinway Hall giving it that concertina feel].
Now what would be nice is to start a new layer and that's done as Rohan suggested. But here's my question how many parts are going to weigh the composition down in one layer, or how many channels is ideal to run on 1 instrument without stress.
To keep my MIDI cha. as the switching source I want to have the layers both as multiple and as playable as possible [in example if all 16 parts were in use in the MIDI inst. layer it would be too heavy since my processor speed is only 2g's].
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So looking ahead for practice and stage how much performance can one expect per instrument track? How many voices switched on that instrument via MIDI?
hi muzak. not sure about the genius thing....very kind and all that. BTW love your stuff italics - classic muzak.
number of voices on a track is dependant on your horses (cpu and drive in the case of streaming samples) and memory. in real terms anyway. there is probably a theoretical limit.
you can have unlimited tracks of any nature (i think the limit is 256? audio tracks) more than enough. midi info is very efficient and uses very little system recources by todays computing standards. but it is down to where the bottleneck will be. if it is a soft synth, it will be cpu in driving software, more critically in soft samplers it will be the hard drive streaming audio. and then everything is dependant on memory, but again these days of multi Gb memory your limits are theoretical rather than practical.
the environment concept in logic makes it both more complex and easier to manage complex setups. it can grow with your needs or not be used at all. iS has the concept right.

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