I want to buy a Vepro dedicated slave machine. What cpu ?

[Bensmir]

Hello, I just bought vepro 7, and I want to build myself some bad boy huge template with everything enabled, single articulation patches etc. 

My current computer is : Ryzen 5600x, 64 gb dd4 ram, 8 Tb nvme SSDs for the samples. 

What's the best practises for a slave computer ? Half the VI on the slave and Half on the master ? Everything on the slave ? Maxing out the maste first then filling the slave ? 

I want to build a 126 gb ddr4 or 196 gb ddr5 RAM computer.

What CPU would you advice me and why? I would like to stay in the 250-400$ range maximum. 

Is the cpu even important for the slave? Better go for the fastest single core ? Or the most cores ?

 

Thanks

[Andreas8420]

Hi!

If both computers are powerful enough, splitting the workload with two VE Pro servers is a good idea (you will need two VE Pro licenses and 1 or 2 physical iLOK USB keys). Otherwise, the samples should go to the more powerful machine.

The more CPU cores, the better. But a single CPU core should still be fast enough to handle the thread's workload. The question of what CPU is a bit tricky. You can always load/play twice as many tracks and therefore require twice as much computing power.

The necessary computing power depends on a LOT of variables... your libraries, plugins, project size, audio hardware, audio buffer size, settings etc - my suggestion is you experiment with your existing system and see how far you get. 

A 100-200 GB template with single patch tracks sounds like the quickest way to run into days or weeks of work - just to discover that your template is unplayable/unreasonable with a 300$ CPU. But at the end of the day, there is no way around spending time on testing and optimizing - and building your template around your hardware.

Best,
Andreas

[Bensmir]

@Andreas8420 said in [I want to buy a Vepro dedicated slave machine. What cpu ?](/post/317275):

Hi!

If both computers are powerful enough, splitting the workload with two VE Pro servers is a good idea (you will need two VE Pro licenses and 1 or 2 physical iLOK USB keys). Otherwise, the samples should go to the more powerful machine.

The more CPU cores, the better. But a single CPU core should still be fast enough to handle the thread's workload. The question of what CPU is a bit tricky. You can always load/play twice as many tracks and therefore require twice as much computing power.

The necessary computing power depends on a LOT of variables... your libraries, plugins, project size, audio hardware, audio buffer size, settings etc - my suggestion is you experiment with your existing system and see how far you get. 

A 100-200 GB template with single patch tracks sounds like the quickest way to run into days or weeks of work - just to discover that your template is unplayable/unreasonable with a 300$ CPU. But at the end of the day, there is no way around spending time on testing and optimizing - and building your template around your hardware.

Best,
Andreas

 

Thanks. I am currently setting up my Vepro template with each kontakt hosting many patches and multiple midi channels and outputs. Is this the way to go for sparing computer ressources ?