USING NODE IN LOGIC 8

Question

I have a Imac with 4gb of Ram and i am running out of patience on how poorly it is working after only a dozen or so tracks.
I took my moms Mac mini for the weekend and noded it to my Imac. It seemed to work good. I noded every midi track but not audio tracks.
I could see the Node meter indicating that the node was reallying doing its thing ( about 75% full) and judging from the CPU load it looked to have chilled out a bit and i didnt really appear to have any major issues.
One thing i did notice though was that it made the audio tracks sound way different, i mean like awful. I didnt notice any latency (using a cat6 cable in ethernet) but i did notice that node doesnt work well with audio.
Has anyone experienced this?
One other question.
Can i put plug ins on the node and then have them run in logic. Like say i put BFD2 on the node and also store the wave files on the node (also kinda like a external HD) will this work?
Or could i also hook up my FW800 HD to the mac mini and run BFD that way ? The reason i ask is becasue im my experience to run BFD2 effectivley u need at least 2gb of Ram just for BFD.
Has anyone done anything like this? I need to find out before i go spend $1000 on a top of the line Mac Mini.
Thanks.

Answer 1

So basically what your saying is :
Yes, well done, that's exactly what I was saying. :rolleyes:
Its seems very very difficult to really get anything good using only whats in logic.
Then I'm sure your songs will sound three thousand per cent better in some other DAW.
I mean come on almost everyone uses a plug in of some sort and you have to agree with me the EQ's and Compressors and Reverbs (except maybe space designer are less than prefect).
Some of Logic's tools are great, others you can find better third-party options. Many of us here purchase additional tools and plugins. No one said you are limited to only using Logic. But if you only have Logic, and can't afford any other good tools, then yes, you can make perfectly acceptable music using only it's tools, assuming you have some skill and ability.
It still requires skill, but Logic on it's own offers a **** of a lot more than many hit records were made from.
If you have no skill, then it doesn't matter what tools you do or don't have, the end result will still be very amateur.
Nodes: You can run third-party FX plugins. You just cannot run third-party instruments. I expect it's a technical reason, not some arbitrary decision.
However, I expect very few pros are using nodes, which is really an inefficient option when you have a slow machine. Having a more powerful machine is a much better way to work, and good Macs are so powerful now that you really have to be pushing the limits of large arrangements or massive sample use to get to a point where one machine is not really useful.
It sounds to me like your requirements exceed your available computing power, if a 2.x C2D iMac isn't powerful enough for you. I run a MacBook Pro of about the same power requirements, and you can make plenty good music on it. No, you can't run hundreds of virtual instruments live, but that doesn't mean you can't do big arrangements.
If you really need a more powerful machine, then get a more powerful machine, rathwr than blaming Logic for your own machine's performance. Logic is about the most efficient DAW out there on any platform.