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  • Why Vienna Ensemble Pro ?

    T
    T

    I am considering purchasing Vienna Ensemble Pro but have a few questions.  Unfortunately, I cannot afford a large setup for all my composing needs.  

    My current setup is:

    MacBook 2020 13"

    16GB RAM (I cannot upgrade this, chips soldered to board)

    500 GB SSD HDD

    a Single 1TB external HDD (USB C) plugged into MacBook 

    with an Anker small doc to which I have 2 monitors, AudioBox 96, iLicense Key, Nektar MIDI

    Studio One Pro 5.5 (my DAW of Choice)

    I know Ensemble Pro gives you the ability to adjust your mix, manage 3rd party add ons, and network to other home pc's, etc...  

    Since I have a small setup, can I employ the "networking feature" to offload CPU, Disk I/O, and RAM to another computer that I have ?  Right now I cannot build out a template past 20 instances on my current laptop without Synchron Player dying on me.  A few of my productions far exceed 20 instances.  Is Vienna Ensemble Pro a wise investment for me ?  (I am not worried about mixing, EQ's, etc... I do just fine with that in Studio One).  

    If I had the money I would just purchase a big powerful computer however I do not.  

    Thanks,

    Paul
  • civilization 3C
    civilization 3C

    Well, it is a separate process than whatever DAW/sequencer you're loading the things in, so it's already quite improved use of resources, particularly CPU. Run it decoupled from the DAW..

    I have mostly used it as "Local Host" on one MacBook Pro. I have some very large arrangements that are orders of magnitude more than I could do from Cubase alone.  But yeah, one idea is to use another machine's resources.
    In the olden days we had to run a server farm and port audio back to the sequencing, master machine from as many soundcards as computers in the farm. Seems like a good idea with a 13" display and you can run out of RAM (albeit the narrative is the unified memory means virtual memory is much more robust, in the System on Chip architecture.). 

    The thing to watch for with that computer is right now VE Pro has to run under Rosetta 2. I don't know from Studio One much, but eg., Cubase 12 Pro has to run plugins all or none as native for silicon Mac, and both running thru the translation isn't optimal.
  • T
    T

    Thank you mate for your insight.  It is kind of what I thought.  This MacBook is great for "general" purposes but truly lacks any umphf when it comes to music production.  I was just trying to think of a way to utilize resources on hand.  I appreciate your answer. 
  • civilization 3C
    civilization 3C

    Today I pushed my 14" 2021 MBP, 16GB FAR beyond what 16GB has ever meant to me. On my 2019 MBP, 64GB, this project was hitting 30GB in use.