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Hi everyone, I'm looking at getting/making a slave computer to run VE Pro. While I'm considering a PC, my life long use of macs makes me a bit PC-phobic, but I'm looking in to that. But I am considering mac minis. The problem with Mac Minis is the fairly limited 16BG of RAM. My question is: Which would be better for running VE Pro on a slave machine: ONE Mac Mini with TWO SSDs and 16BG of RAM or TWO Mac Minis with one SSD each, 16GB of RAM x2 and therefore totalling 32GB of ram, 16 allocated to each computer, or two insances of VE Pro. Would the latter be better? Are there any problems running TWO slave machines in VE Pro?
I'd really appreciate your expertise so that I get the right thing. I would consider buying just one Mac Pro with one SSD for now, then I could get another one later when I need it. Thanks so much! Joe. Main Machine: iMac 2.8Ghz, 16GB RAM, OSX 10.8.5
Slave Machine: MacPro 2,1. 2x 2.66 Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32GB RAM OSX 10.6.8, samples streamed via SAMSUNG 1TB EVO (on SATA I though).
DAW: LogicX
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GIven that choice I would go with 2; I believe distributing to cores is more optimal through the second instance/a second machine, and chances are good you're going to need that RAM. MacBook Pro 16,1: 2.3 GHz 8-core i9
64GB 2667MHz DDR4
OSX 10.15.6
VE Pro 7, Cubase Pro 11.0.10
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If you think of using MIR with solution two you will need to buy one license of MIR per computer MacBook Pro 2019 16" + 2 x Odisseey G9 49" Big Sur
MacPro 2010 12 core 2.93 ghz 64 GB Mac OS X 10.11 2722 Rocket Raid Sata III card with 8 x ssd
VSL lib on a Raid 0 of 4 x 256 GB ssd Sata III - Raid 0 of 4 x 64 GB for other libs
System on a 1 TB ssd
Audio Motu PCI system 84 ins / 64 outs
Kbd : P80 Yamaha, S88 and S25 Komplete Kontrol, DX7
I-Controls Pro, 2xMidi expression pedals
Synth : many....
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Macbook pro Retina 2.7 ghz 16 GB
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Mac Mini server 10.10 (server, Itunes, WEB, and Backup )
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Logic X , Dorico, Band In A Box, ORB Composer
VSL : MIR PRO, Appassionata Strings I, Solo strings , Wind and Brass Complete, Dimension Brass, Big Band Orchestra series
Kontakt, Omnisphere, QLSO, QLSC, CS 80, Arturia V5, Maximo, Realivox Blue. CS 80 V3, The Orchestra 2, Art Conductor 5, Genesis Children Choir, Lunaris, Lacrimosa
Final Cut pro
Camera full HD
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Question.. Re mac mini's Im looking at the mac mini server 2011 model it seems to take more ram and has a quadcore. What in order does vepro with many play instances going to use up first. which order of importance? RAM, HD speed, CPU cores Also is it better or beneficial to for example put 18 play plugins in one instance or split them out 9 in 2 instances. I am so far been limiting them to 9 plugins with 9 instruments because of the track limits inside of play 1-18 audio outs. Also was thinking that having smaller instances might be easier to move them aroudn server wise to load balance... Thoughts?
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