Hi unfortunately every single effect does this:

i test with a blank audio project and just one instrument track with some light midi with an exs24 piano just to test.,.

cpu hovers around 5%

insert any melda effect, cpi spikes to almost 100%

then goes back down to what it should be,,

then randomly spikes anywhere up to 100%, consistently, back and forth from low cpu to maximum cpu,.

every single melda effect is therefor completely unusuable in logic.

thanks

very sad


Last edited by TheoM on Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:55 pm; edited 1 time in total

Can you try restarting Mac OS? It is pretty often system mess that causes this, especially on Macs... Also can you check another host?

I checked in Logic 9 and no problems whatsoever. Please do the restart and let me know.

i'm restarting now will let you know asap.

ok this is so unpredictable.. it seems to matter what effects you have in the project.. if you are using it on an audio track or a vi

i just loaded up my favorite.. linear phase auto eq.. can not drag a single band without the cpu spiking, logic playback distorting and cutting out..
and with the other effects i am getting random core spikes..

also, when a melda gui is open it blocks the spacebar from starting and stopping playback, which is a huge pain..

no other effects i have do that (and you know me, i have tons lol)

this is really hard to pinpoint but it is something graphic related that is causing these spikes...

I am going to do alot of further testing tonight and load every single melda effect one by one in place of the last one and see what i can come up with.

ok look what i have done is delete ALL traces of melda from my machine using an app called easy find that finds hidden stuff as well, i have deleted all plugins, repaired permissions, restarted machine, and am about to reinstall from scratch, as i couldn't get consistent readings.. they were all over the place...

so now i am about to reinstall all the fx and test them, one by one in sequence..

i will report back as soon as i am done

ok i can't even run the installer now:(


i double click on it and nothing happens whatsoever.. i double click again.. nothing.. i have waited since my last post..

so obviously something is very wrong here with your installer and plugins, or with my system.

I am completely at a loss. I have no idea what to do.

it must have downloaded correctly because it was a zip file, and i tested the zip with betterzip using the test procedure and it came up flawless, and it would never extract in OSX if it was corrupt in any way anyway.

so...

stuck.

and now no melda on my computer

Vojtech, you haven't changed the installer download in the last 24 hours by any chance have you?

I am completely at a loss here

Ok, one by one:

1) Graphics issues have happend a few times on systems without dedicated video card, with some cheap HW. Macs should have fine graphics, correct?

2) Aren't you using very low latency now? What buffer sizes are you using? I can provide you with some older installers, so you can check, but I really doubt it's in it.

3) Are you using some firewall, antivirus or some other stuff like that?

4) The installer does not work, because what's written in the README.txt - you opened it using some creepy unzipper. These things are so unreliable on Macs... Anyway all you need to do is to unzip it using the default stuffit expander (or something else, I check a few, most work properly, some don't...)

betterzip is the highest rated "unzipper" in all of mac land.. but anyway i will download again.

Guess what i have re installed Snow leopard from scratch, so now, we have no excuses, let's see how we go. (that's where i disappeared to the last 24 hrs)

My graphics is a dedicated 1GB Radeon 6750! lol.

that should be fine

cheers

It's not about unzipper being "bad", it's that thing Apple just didn't specify at all (like many things...) - user permissions. If the unzipper doesn't enable "execute" permission, Mac OS X just ignores it (instead of telling you what's wrong...).

Unfortunately after a complete reformat and fresh install, the problem persists.

I thought i was "safe" as i was trying the effects one by one and it seemed ok..

then out of the blue the moment i touched the gui the cpu shot to 100% and the audio distorted like crazy then logic dropped out.

it is unpredictable, but the reverb seems to love doing it and the dynamics.

They all eventually will though with enough tweaking.

I DISABLED the graphics switching on the macbook so it is ALWAYS using the dedicated graphics card, to see if that was the problem, but no dice.

I am afraid melda effects for ME at least are impossible to use as i never know when it will go "boom".

Hmmm, this is weird, I didn't notice anything and I have no other reports. Ok, anyway, contact me via email and I'll give you links to some older version to check if it would help.

sorry about the delay, i use reason now exclusively so unless i desperately need an external effect and load up live, it no longer matters.

I forgot all about this.

i was only doing all this because as you know i already have auto eq but was debating whether to buy the total bundle again.

Unfortunately Vojtech i am not a potential customer anymore so what i say is not really important..

That said i urge to make some rack extensions. Auto volume would be the primary candidate in having no other competitor in reason.

Your effects often have gui that could fit in the reason rack, and propellerheads will take care of all sales and support. You have some plugins that could hugely benefit reason. I think that's where the money is as people *have* to buy them to use them.

I would give it some serious consideration.

That said i WILL occasionally rewire reason into live if i need to use Auto eq. I don't use the linear phase one because of live's pdc problems.

and i noticed.. unless i am imagining, there used to be like a strength option when matching or separating, and there isn't now..

Is it possible to put it back?

That would make it complete....

The graphics have not given me problems in live



so it's a logic thing BUT it got BETTER when i stopped graphics switching so at first i didn't think that was the iddue but it is i think.. your products do not like the intel HD 3000 graphics.. but so many logic people use 13" macbooks and macnook airs and mac minis i would still look at it if i were you.

Cheers!! Theo

Ok, I'll check the Reason thing, but personally I'm extremely sceptical about that, 'cos even now I'm aware of soo many technical problems, and creating special GUI for that is a total no-go. I also don't trust a company, that never did a plugin interface and even wasn't professinal enough to adopt an existing one. And the marketing system doesn't look good to me either... But who knows...

Autoeq - what "strength" are you talking about? I'm a little confused here.

Graphics - the thing is this was the first report from Macs, before there were 2 reports from PCs without any dedicated graphics card at all. So it's kind of problematic. We'll see.