@Livitican said:
I intend on getting the full extended VI Library and would like to run it on 3 slave G5s (all with 259 gig sata 7200rpm secondary drives). Here is what I was thinking.
G5 1 - Solo Strings, Chamber Strings, Orch Strings 1, Orch Strings 2 (186gigs)
G5 2 - Percussion, Woodwinds 1, Woodwinds 2
(206gigs)
G5 3 - Harps, Brass 1, Brass 2
(156gigs)
Does this seem logical? any suggestions? Would firewire 800 Drives be better?
Thanks for any advice.
Hi there Livitican -
In answer to YOUR questions first - I would go internal DEFINATELY. The whole firewire 800 buss thing is great but if you really want to be sure and have a tidy solution - go Internal....thats what I have done - purrs like a kitten
As for the split of Library - It all depends what you do most of - the way you suggested it on your post looks OK.....I would be a llittle worried about ALL the strings being on one machine - eg if you wanted to say prog with your main orch stgs and then maybe mix in a little chamber for rosin say - you will be running a chunk of stuff on one machine. I would probably invest in one more drive and install the strings on machine 2 as well and move the syncrosoft keys around depending on the project. Some guys have reported problems with the VI's on G5's but mine have been sweet from the install date - not one problem.
Ok....now my turn [:D]
Just wondering what you were going to use on the slave machines to host the VI's...(Bidule Plogue / Destroy FX AU host - also some apps like Digital Performer allow multi installs - unlike Logic 7 [8o|] ) and how you were going to link them together (into a mixing board or light pipe them into your main g5 DAW and have them show up in your DAW mixer on screen)?
I myself am also looking at the option of having slave G5's ( but also at the possibility of PC's - cheaper etc etc)
At the moment I run G5 2.5DualP/ OSX 10.4.6 / 6.5 GB RAM /Logic 7.2.1 & 2 internal 250 Gb sATA (Not RAID) and am looking at the option of having 2 - 3 additional slave G5's.....(but also at the possibility of Carillon PC's - cheaper etc etc., but the whole PC / RAM ceiling of 3GB has got me thinking)
With the G5's my latest idea is to have
2 AU hosts running at the same time in each of the G5's - thus, each host, running as an independent app has access to around 3.4Gb of Ram (the unofficial / official quoted ceiling in OSX is 4Gb per Application) - so obviously with 2 hosts on each G5 you will be able to access around 7Gb RAM approx - unlike the PC's at present (apparently due to the 32bit system) which is just over 2 if you have 3Gb installed - and that seems to be with a bit of under the bonnet tweeking.
I would probably then upgrade my Main G5 DAW soundcard from the RME (which I LOVE BTW) to the MOTU PCI buss system and run 2 or 3 lightpipes from each of the slaves into the MOTU 2408 / HD192 interafaces (giving a total of 96 audio chhannels so plenty of room for expansion!!) and buy a controller for access to faders etc etc
I know Svonkampen has a 2 x G5 setup and runs Bidule Plogue on the slave to host VI's - but I wonder if he has thought of having a
second host running on the slave - and if it would even work....
Any way - you get the picture!!!
Let me know where your at.....
best wishes
PaulM
