My first 9.02 "Out of Memory!" ????

Question

So, I finally installed Logic 9.02 on my mac pro with 12 gigs of ram.
Started a simple project yesterday, with NO VI's, and a few plugins. I was testing drum mic setups, so I recorded an 8 track drum take. Then I wanted to see how the new 'drum replacement' feature works.
At first the "drum replace" option was greyed out. Figured out that you had to flatten takes to get it as an option... So did that, selected my snare track and hit "replace".
"OUT OF MEMORY. No further editing or data allowed" or some nonsense like that.
?????? With 12 gigs of ram, and only 8 tracks of audio, no instruments at all?
This is an "upgrade" to Logic 8? This is the first time in all my years as a Logic user that I've ever had any kind of memory related problem. Pathetic, and utterly inexcusable in my professional opinion.
What a disappointment.

Answer 1

samplaire wrote:
I'm sorry for my words...
No problem, but thanks.
Back to the topic: can you try to reproduce the situation? Try to do it and when it comes to the warning message, launch Activity Monitor and observe the memory consumption having in mind all the tips other users wrote. Additionaly I've read somewhere that if you have many apple loops in a project or other time processed files (perhaps the thing you do can be those?) they are memory hungry.
I can reproduce this situation easily, simply by opening a new project from my standard autoload, recording a multi-track drum take for a minute or so (8 to 10 tracks), and then choosing one of those tracks and selecting "drum replace". Boom - out of memory.
It MAY be true that this somehow pushes Logic close to its 4 GB limit. Maybe.
But here's the thing. If I were still in L8, I could go ahead and add DOZENS of more audio tracks, dozens more plugins, and another 10 or so virtual instruments before there'd be any significant sign of Logic breaking a sweat.
Here, the song has barely started - just 30 bars of drums and nothing else -- and already L9 is begging for mercy? This is a very, very bad sign in my books.
I will check activity monitor next time though. Maybe my template is too complex (lots of aux busses, and plugins ready to go on drum and instrument tracks, mostly Waves SSL).
But nothing can change the fact that L8 would have cruised along happily in the exact same situation. So the only solution for me would be to avoid using L9's new flex/replacement features. So, if I don't use Flex, and I don't use the guitar amps (already got plenty), and RAM usage is way worse, then what the heck is the point of this "upgrade" in the first place?
Issues like this just make me more displeased with Apple's lack of tech support for this "pro" software... I really think I'm just going to go back to L8 and if and when L10 ever makes an appearance I'll give it a shot and see if anything's improved this time.
(curmudgeon mode: ON)
Harumph!