Probably a daft Mac NOOB question but...

Is there a way to allocate more RAM/CPU to audio apps?
I'm running Logic Pro & I can quite easily overload my system as I use a tonne of plugins in realtime so I can keep them open to edit and automate.. I sort-of design my sound as Im working & i like to keep quite a few parts heavily automated (eg. filters, delay times, pitch glides, lfo, filt lfo, osc detune, reverse reverb time & amount are all on one ES2 & Need to automate quite a bit).
I may have 2/3 leads/pads, Drums Buss, and a bass buss all using similar editing styles & it really kills my workflow to freeze, then unfreeze to re-edit.
The reason I ask is that when Logic is running, Activity monitor reports I have around 500meg of Inactive RAM and Logic may only be using 130% processor.
I understand the internal node can reduce the cpu a little but is there a way to re-assign processor scheduling & RAM allocation to Logic??
Thanks for any help in advance..

Hi L-Fire, Thanks for that. Looks like yr right!
Browsing around, it seems that OS X doesn't have/need a Memory or CPU scheduling editor. Apparently the OS automatically assigns appropriately for performance.
I have Macbook 2.0, 2gig of (Apple) RAM installed, along with an 80g USB2 external HDD to store my audio work. It doesnt seem to make much difference whether I work from the Local disk or external.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's a problem with the Macbook.
It just seems strange that Activity monitor shows lots of available resources & yet Logic will overload & sometimes even crash through (What I presume is) lack of it!?

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