Quod Core Mac Pros - What performance are you getting?

I'm trying to work out whether the performance I'm getting out of my new Mac Pro is correct. Yesterday, the machine ran out of memory running sixteen sample based virtual instruments, two audio tracks and Izotope Ozone on the master bus. This seems pretty pathetic performance to me. I should be getting more out of the machine than this, surely?

ben wright1 wrote:
I'm trying to work out whether the performance I'm getting out of my new Mac Pro is correct. Yesterday, the machine ran out of memory running sixteen sample based virtual instruments, two audio tracks and Izotope Ozone on the master bus. This seems pretty pathetic performance to me. I should be getting more out of the machine than this, surely?
16 sample based instruments? Like what?
Are you using Logic 9?
If you read the boards.. L-9 seems to hitting the memory wall, not necessarily the computer.
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