I'm trying to figure out how much I can handle on a single 8-core Mac with 16GB RAM, or if I should have my second Mac serving as a VE Pro client.
I'm running a beast of a Pro Tools session, which is bringing in digital audio from 5 Gigastudios. Voices-wise, I'm okay in Pro Tools, and I seem to have plenty of RAM overhead to load samples if I insert VE Pros as RTAS in Pro Tools, but I'm wondering about the point at which the system collapses under the processing weight of 128+ Midi Channels, 48 24 bit Audio tracks, plus everything I'm asking VE Pro to do on the same system. Is there any way of gauging, apart from trial and error, how much load I can get away with on a single system? Or is this a classic scenario for shunting instruments off to a second computer? I have computers all over this place, I was just hoping to do more with less. It already costs a fortune keeping my machine room cool :)
_Mike