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Don't know. I recently purchased the VE Pro to use my two machines and I now see the time to buy a slave PC to host the VE Pro. Perhaps I thought this is the right place to take advice. And sincerely, I don't use a lot the EW ones and ended up buying kontakt ones like Cinebrass, Orchestral Essentials and others. The thing got better a bit, but I need more power.
Thank you [:(]
Thank you, William.
Then, your advice is to trust more in SSD than processor? RAM is already maximized in the Mac Mini, and in the MacBook just admits 8 more Gb. In regard to RAM, I can't do a lot more. Also, I have to buy a computer right now, perhaps later it would be more difficult for me to purchase one. I'm waiting for a babe [:)]
@Lucius said:
Don't know. I recently purchased the VE Pro to use my two machines and I now see the time to buy a slave PC to host the VE Pro. Perhaps I thought this is the right place to take advice. And sincerely, I don't use a lot the EW ones and ended up buying kontakt ones like Cinebrass, Orchestral Essentials and others. The thing got better a bit, but I need more power.
Thank you
The thing is that VE Pro will work pretty well no matter what you have. The real bottleneck is the sample player and product you choose to use, and it also depends on what sort of patches you prefer. Obviously, as William ways, SSD will help with VSL, however, unless you are using Dimension Strings (or Brass, but I don't have that, so I can't be sure), it is not really necessary, but when you use sample that have multiple microphone positions, then SSD becomes very important as in those situations the number of voices you use dramatically increases.
DG
@Lucius said:
Thank you, William.
Then, your advice is to trust more in SSD than processor? RAM is already maximized in the Mac Mini, and in the MacBook just admits 8 more Gb. In regard to RAM, I can't do a lot more. Also, I have to buy a computer right now, perhaps later it would be more difficult for me to purchase one. I'm waiting for a babe
If you use an SSD for samples you will be amazed at the improvement. It is like night and day. If you buy a computer get one with at least 32 gb RAM. If you do complex arrangements, multiple cores (or multiple slaves) become more necessary, but the best place to put money in my experience is with SSDs and RAM.
@William said:
Yes, the samples are streamed from disc or SSD, and only MIR is loaded into RAM. Since discs are very slow and problematic for his kind of streaming, SSDs will work much faster.
Bill, I think the OP was thinking that he could utilise the features of PLAY and Kontakt, which allow you to load the whole sample library into RAM and not use DFD at all, but obviously if any of the libraries concerned have a half decent sized set of samples, I don't know of any domestic computer that could have enough RAM to make this viable.
DG
