What is the mximum ram which logic 8.02 supports

Question

hi this is kamal from hyderabad INDIA.I`am using Logic 8.02 on intel mac dual core*2 2.66 Ghz. please do anyone inform me that what is the highest amount of ram which logic 8.02 supports.

Answer 1

hi kamal,
logic itself won't access more than 3.7 Gb at a time, but the application and the plugs don't really need that much, even on really big projects. the only exception to this is apple loops which for technical reasons have to be stored in RAM.
the only reason you may be interest in RAM for logic (more than the 3.7 Gb limit) is if you are running big orchestral libraries. if you have more than 5 Gb of RAM installed, the EXS will be able to access that physical RAM outside of logics memory space. that means you can have 4Gb (well at least 3.7) of samples loaded per instance of EXS. vienna instruments and the new PLAY fro EWQLSO can do the same thing.
the other alternative is to run your sample libraries as standalone applications outside of logic. but we really are talking about very big libraries now. if you have a big library you want to run, and it is on the exs, then you can install more than 5Gb and you whould be very happy.
native instruments DFD will allow you to decide how much of the library is streamed and how much is loaded into RAM. that is a good way of optimizing as well.