Cpu Or Hard Drive Speed?, Trouble w/ Logic Options

[whickus]

I love using Logic, but I'm having trouble with it lately. When doing projects in 24bit/96KHz with about 3 audio tracks and 5 instrument tracks my Audio meter (on the Logic system performance gauge) goes into the red, but the CPU meter is at less than half. About half the time it'll actually overload and stop. Here's my setup:

Dual 867 G4, OS 10.3.5, 768MB ram, Logic Big Box 5.5, seperate 7200 rpm 40GB ATA/100 hard drive for audio files.

I know Logic Big Box (same as Logic Express) does not take advantage of dual processors, but it seems like a single 867 G4 should be able to handle more than 3 audio tracks and a couple instruments.

My question is: Is my problem the hard drive or CPU or something else? Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions.

Thanks for any help.

[lepetitmartien]

iBooks are not exactly tailored for intensive tasks. The lack of level 3 cache is a bad thing too (less efficiency). maxintosh is right on the hard drive… For performance, you should ask a logic user

Now when you're serious while making music on a laptop, you have another fast drive around in firewire…

Powerbooks are more expensive but fast mojos.

I'm currently wondering which will be my next computer and i'm scratching my head (if Apple could offer it to me whatever it is, it'll be most welcome