Yeah, but still pretty reasonably priced considering the technology, IMO. I remember the days back when a 10Mb cost $10,000 in 1980 dollars (yes, Mb, not Gb). I remember paying around $9,000 for a Mac Quadra 900 and monitor (and that was through a school discount). The same money sure buys a LOT more today.
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I load all the articulations of full SE Plus + Appassionata and a few "download instrument" in a 13 GB, 3 Ghz early 2008 Macpro (but my buffers are set to 1024)
I use a Raid 0 of 6 x 32 gb raptors.
My VSL instruments are in 6 x VE in a VE PRO SERVER 64 Bit
I use Logic.
The 8 CPU of my MACpro are equaly used
As Logic does not have much to do (a few EQ and 2x Space designer), it is reporting very little load
I will come back to what Mike said about Logic and the 8 core.
Logic is buggy on that side because it is dedicating cores for specific operations.
Before using VE pro server I was using IAC and a VE of 80 instrument. I was routing the audio in/out of the VE thru Adat out/in
Using Inputs in Logic the load is on the 8th core, same with a Space designer on a 5.1 output
in some configurations other user are reporting overload on the 7th Cpu other on the 4th (not sure if it is the 3rd or the 4th)
Raid v.s. JBOD :
I gain 10 minutes (20 mn instead of 30) when I load my VE PRO server from raid
As VE PRO server is loading it's samples sequentially putting VSL on different disk will not help at all.
I dont know if you gain polyphony using a Raid 0
SSD :
I am also looking at that, but I am scared that it wont help much, because VSL is taking ages to load its samples as they require a lot of processing before been able to be used by VE PRO
The big problem is which one, (see my post at : http://community.vsl.co.at/forums/p/26070/172603.aspx#172603 )
Best
Cyril
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Interesting information, Cyril. I wonder what would happen if you had more than one instance of VEPro concurrently loading from multiple (i.e. non-RAIDed) disks.
I really want to get around having to wait 10-20-30 or more minutes to load large templates. That's a real productivity killer.
In my current set-up, my four PCs load modest sized templates from two drive RAID 0 configurations. It takes a while, but not an absurdly long time. Then again, the templates aren't that big. I use the wait time to practice trumpet. If I need to start waiting a half hour for things to load on the new system, I'm going to get REALLY good on trumpet. ;)
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Cyril,
Reread your post. Just so I'm clear, are you using one machine or two? Is your VE Pro on the same computer as Logic?
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@Lee Blaske said:
Cyril,
Reread your post. Just so I'm clear, are you using one machine or two? Is your VE Pro on the same computer as Logic?
I have One Macpro that is running Logic and VE PRO server
I have tried to launch 2 x VE Pro server duplicating the app renaming it, I did not manage !
I have suggest Karel from VSL to explore parallel loading of the different VE, no answer !
In a recent mail Karel said the VI PRO will improve loading and will load in background
Best
Cyril
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The 8 CPU of my MACpro are equaly used
As Logic does not have much to do (a few EQ and 2x Space designer), it is reporting very little load
Do you know if your combo of Logic and VEP is using the hyperthreading cores? Logic seems to have the ability to use them but is limited to eight cores total.
In general, the inability of multiple plugins to load at the same time (particularly coming from different drives, that may be one case where raid speeds things up a bit - SSD definitely will) is an annoying limitation.
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You're right, HT is only on the 2009+ models, sorry I didn't read your post carefully enough.
I would be curious if VEP uses the HT cores on macs that have it, if anyone knows.
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I have order today 3 x 64 GB Crucial to make a raid 0 for VSL and a 256 GB Crucial for VM en working area
I will post benchmarks end of next week
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As promised I have post my ssd results
It is using VE PRO 2010http://community.vsl.co.at/forums/t/26205.aspxAs soon the installation of 6776 is fixed I will do another trialBestCyril