@Cyril said:
Are your Play and Kontakt instrument in VE pro or in Logic ?
Are you using MIR ?
Having a SSD inside your MAC PRO does not allow to have the full speed of the SSD
Having some samples on HD is no good too
Did you monitor CPU usage ? Are you using the 28 GB ? if not you can increase the pre-load buffers to use it
Can you monitor the CPU and I/O disk with "Activity Monitor" when you have your drop outs ?
Hi, Cyril. Thanks for responding.
I don't use MIR. I have 1 instance of Kontakt in Logic, but the rest are in different instances in VEPRO.
My entire machine's RAM footprint when using my full template is around 24GB when everything is loaded and working. I'm afraid if I increase the buffers I'll run out of room pretty quickly.
When I playback a sequence and monitor all 16 cores in Activity Monitor (it accounts for virtual cores as well), I don't see the dropouts or spikes that seem to be occuring in VEPRO. That points to it being a VEPRO issue and not the system, although I don't know how accurate Activity Monitor is when monitoring CPU usage.
The strangest part is the stutters in playback occur even when bouncing offline, which normally would eliminate any cracks or stutters. This also points to something wrong with VEPRO.
Regarding the HD issue, I was under the impression the Mac had four independent SATA channels that weren't slaved by the slowest link in the chain. Is that not the case? Would there still be a performance bottleneck even if I solo a track that is playing back samples located on an SSD? So, if I remove the platter drives from my machine I would get an immediate performance increase?
I'm grateful for your help.