Selected Track Getting More Processing Power?

Hello,
If I understand correctly, Logic 9 allocates more resources to a selected track than other tracks (if you have more than one). Could anyone elaborate on how this is implemented? Can I choose to turn off this feature and give the same processing power to all tracks/plugins?
The reason I ask this is because my Korg M3 plug-in is not playing nice with Logic when the VI track with that particular plugin is not selected. If i select another track, the playback becomes out of sync with the rest of the project. However, if I select that track, everything is played back in time.
-TC

TCfromBN wrote:
It's never been a problem for me before either. It's just with this one plug-in. Like the delay compensation isn't working on it,
that perhaps it's an issue with logic and this particular implementation of 'virtualized' hardware.
Ok, well it's true that Logic functions differently than most (if not all) other DAWS regarding it's handling of buffers. Most DAWs keep a Plugin or VI partially active when the sequencer is stopped. Logic does not, this is how Logic gets it's high efficiency rating, you can load up a project template with all of the plugins & VIs you would need to start a large project and there will be virtually no CPU resources used, as long as you have enough memory you're good to go.
When you keep a plugin track selected... it is active or partially active, this allows the plug-in to initialize and clear it's buffers.
It sounds like the Korg plugin is built on an older AU spec, since Logic does not keep plugins active it's now up to the plugin to initialize and clear it's own buffers when the sequencer is stopped, this means that they have to remain active for a time after Logic is stopped.
A couple of developers I beta tested for cried foul because they learned about this after the plugins had been developed and tested as the original AU spec did not contain this information.
Anyway, it sounds like it will be up to Korg to update the plugin to be compatible with Logic. The scenario you've described sounds like the Korg's buffers have not emptied or the plugin doesn't initialize unless the track is selected.
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