Hello,  I have a toneport UX8 running on a MacBook Pro 2.4ghz with 2gb RAM.  I have been fiddling with GarageBand but I am unhappy with the latency I gt when monitoring out of GarageBand.  The latency is quite a bit better if I monitor using the stand alone Pod Farm app and record using the clean send (ch11&12) from pod farm, then I apply pod farm to the clean recording using the pod farm pluton in GarageBand.  Doing this is much better because of tone direct monitoring by line6, however I still find the latency a bit much.

Now I know logic studio 9 claims to have a better engine to reduce latency.  If anyone here has logic 9, could you confirm how monitorig in logic compares to monitoring in GarageBand?  If it really is better, how does the latency when monitoring in logic compare to line6's tonedirect monitoring in pod farm? I would really like to have the option to monitor in logic with with at least as low latency as pod farm's tonedirect monitoring, and the reason I am asking is because I do not want to pay $500 for logic studio and find out that it's not much better than GarageBand.

Lastly, I can also upgrade my ram from 2gb to 4gb, and my OS from leopard to snow lpard.  From your experience how much (if any) will this help with latency?  Thank you in advance! Jesse