Steinberg's The Grand Headaches, Glitches using The Grand VST inst Options

[pjsaccone]

I was very happy with the sound of the Grand 'til it started to do weird things and "drop outs". What i mean with drop outs is that at first (after taking like 5 minutes to load the plugin!) it will playback fine, but after aprox 6 mins. using it, the sustain of the notes would start to stop suddenly (with clicks) making it unusable (notes last 2 seconds the longest!). One other thing is that logic's system performance display won't show disk activity while the actual plugin shows disk overload warnings playing it alone (no other plugss)!! i've tried asio buffer sizes from 125 samples to 512 and i'm running Logic audio on a dual 1ghz g4 with 1 gig ram and a motu 828.... anyone with similar trouble???

[pjsaccone]

Logic has 400 meg of ram assigned (i've tried up to 700!), and even though i set the grand to read fully from ram, it gives a message saying "the max preload time will be set to 7.69 seconds" (as if there isn't enough memory!) and it doesn't use any more ram (only in logic there's like 200 meg spare!) plus the rest of ram outside logic (up to 1gig). About disks, this time i'm trying it on the internal drive (system) but the library was originally in an external 80gig firewire disk. I'm starting to think it's a compatibility problem with logic, cubase users tell me it works fine.