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  • Mac/VE3: Positive Reports Welcome

    J
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    Forums typically emphasize problems, but I'm curious to know how MAC users would grade VE3 performance on a scale from 1-10 where 10 is the absolute best. I'm most interested in the positives at this point...... thanks to all in advance.
  • J
    J

    I don't know if I count - I'm running Vista 64 w/ SP1 on a slave Mac Pro Quad-core 2.8 GHZ with 24GB of RAM. An orchestral template (minus Percussion, which is on another machine) with everyhing playing uses 13-20% of the CPU power. I have 3 internal drives for the samples - one each for WW, Brass and Strings.

    Three instances of VE3 with about 12-14 instruments each. One instance each for WW, Brass & Strings. The three instances load extremely fast. VE3 always connects with the Master cpu right away and I've never yet had a syncronization issue. I haven't noticed any latency.

    All of this is fed the into a Mac Pro 8-core with Logic that has instances of Play and Kontakt, 8 instances of Altiverb. Each instrument comes over the ethernet from the slave Mac Pro on its own dedicated stereo track so that separate levels and processing can be done within Logic's template. (Panning is done with VE3's PowerPan feature on the slave machine.) The main DAW cpu activity meters are extremely low - I'd estimate 10-15%. Activity is shown on all 8 cores.

    No more bouncing.

    Extremely pleased.

    Thank you VSL not only for creating VE3, but for making it bullet-proof.

    Product of the Year Award.  
  • J
    J
    Thanks so much, Jack. It's very encouraging to hear the positives. I hope others chime in as well.
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    C
    Im running VE3 under VMWare on MP8 - 5 instances 16 instruments each. Around 6 GIG memory loaded. No problems so far. all under one rig. Plenty of CPU left over. Im also using my MBPro for Logic Node to run Altiverb but dont really need to
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    That's great news Jack.  CM mentioned that the new Macs made good Vista machines.  Concerned about latency though, I was holding out until VE was updated for 256 capability, but your statements:

    @Another User said:

    Three instances of VE3 with about 12-14 instruments each. One instance each for WW, Brass & Strings. The three instances load extremely fast. VE3 always connects with the Master cpu right away and I've never yet had a syncronization issue. I haven't noticed any latency.

    certainly have me interested now. [:P]

    Thanks for the input
  • J
    J

    aplancahrd,

    Not to over or under stress the point, but to put it into context properly. I'd like to add that within the precincts of using VE3 to create orchestral music, any latency that happens to be there now seems to creates no problem. Nor would I think that it should be of overriding concern to any user.

    I haven't done anything to physically quantify the latency that could be there. If this were a system meant to be used for drum sample replacement on major pop music releases then a closer look would be necessary. Even then it could well be acceptable. Right now I have no idea since I haven't looked closer into this issue.

    I am extremely grateful for VE3 and both its capability and stability.

    Vista64 hasn't even hiccuped once. Yes, t's unweildly and overprotective. However it performs well for this function. I wouldn't go out my way to put it on a laptop meant for personal usage though. Make sure you install Service Pack 1.