No problem. If Mac turns out to be the way to go, then I'll be the first to jump on the bandwagon, but for me (at the moment) it is a backwards step.
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@julian said:
There seem to be many references across the forum from VSL users running various numbers of PC's for their VSL set up.
I run my complete Logic system from one well specified Mac G5. It copes with most things thrown at it - large scale orchestations, 200 track plus audio playback etc...
With sample steaming, and where necessary freezing and bouncing, I have perfectly well completed film and broadcast projects without having to resort to additional computers.
Make sure you have a fast Mac and even faster hard drives then single computer working is totally satisfactorary, simple and rewarding!
Julian.
@steff3 said:
DG, just wonder what crossplattform tests you mention?
If you mean Cubase - although I nice program, but performance-vise it does not stack up to Mac native sequencers as DP (which is not corssplatform as you seemed t mention before) and Logic - I have all three here and tis my experience.
So for the Cubase tests you have to say that a program optimized for PC runs on Mac where it is rather unoptimized at about the same speed - which is funny.
If for example I load hydratone in Cubase - it is about the last I can do without getting spikes at 1024 - if I do the same in Logic @ 256 I hardly notice the hit.
But of course on the RAM thing you are right - 16 GB max does not help if you can only address 2 or 4 GB - although I do not understand what you are talking about conversion form exs to HAL or K2?
HAL is the most problematic on MacOSX - its RAM management is inferior to this of K2 or exs/exs Manager - as OSX in standard setting only allows 10k open files for a program and 12k max for the system - do not ask why I need 16 GB when only allowed to open 12k files? This is the most ridiculous part of OSX!
Also the rest of exs/exs Manager will make you want to work with that setup - easy, fast and reliable - things you do not get from HAL or K2 at the moment.
I would really think if moving to Mac one should rethink also moving to Mac software (and of course non crossplatform software can more easily support OSX specific features). I do not like sequencing in Logic either though....
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I have yet to see a PC smoke a quad, but I must confess I have no experience with opterons as of yet.
How expensive would such a PC system be?