Maximizing Power on a MacBok Pro

Hello,

MGH has just posted in the Logic 9 forum of Logic Users Group under the title of Maximizing Power on a MacBok Pro.

This thread is located at http://www.logic-users-group.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4491

Here is the message that has just been posted:
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Hi guys (and gals); my first post here. I'm working with a musical partner to "realize" an original score that will be mixed down to stereo and used for a professional live theatre show. The cues won't be long but I can see them using 30-50 tracks, primarily samples from the East/West Composers Collection. I'm on a 1 year old MBP with 4GB RAM, Snow Leopard, current Logic 9.1.3, etc., and my samples all live on a Drobo HD enclosure (LIKE a RAID, but not quite) through FW800.

I'm anticipating that I'm going to run out of juice, so I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions to keep working as I build up arrangements. I thought of sub mixing to Stems, but I'm not sure if that will actually save any power (even though a software instrument track would be muted, my assumption is that it's using cycles, but more importantly RAM). Does the Freeze function work well, and works as it should? Bounce in Place may also work, but again, I'd have to unload the plug-in to free up any power.

Any other ideas of suggestions (besides buying a 12-core MacPro with 32 GB of RAM!!)??

Thanks,

Marcel
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