Works fine here. Ok, you can overload every computer by using too much reverbs or load every avaliable articulation. I have an 8core Mac and a normal one-track-per-instrument special edition orchestra with a valhalla room per section runs on the lower side of CPU.

Using Dimension strings and lots of additional Kontakts needs more and I recently updated from 32 to 64 GB. If CPU hits the ceiling it's mostly the active track in Logic but that's rare.

I have a slave PC but most of the time I don't need it. It's just necessary when I want to stack Dimension strings with other developers sections or keep the Mac free for other stuff.

Hi Randin,

I've got what you have ordered (see my signature) and can tell you it works brilliantly. I originally had 64 gb of ram, but expanded it to 128 gb with specialist ram from OWC. This has lowered my bus speed down to 1066 mhz, but I have not run into any problems yet and can load in a whopping template. Anyway, I digress, your system specs are fine, but I would reccomend 64Gb ram.

My Mac has run a 45minute symphony live and with bounce in place and live audio tracks , with no problem. That was running vsl wind, brass, percussion and string section from vepro 5, as well as LASS, some Berlin wind and Spitfire strings from Kontakt.

I would ditch the slave setup, but keep the old slave machine just in case you want a bigger template, but that's just me, I like keeping complication as simple as possible, but others may disagree with that.

I have found that performance degrades a bit when I have used about 56gb of ram, as the greedy computer wants some too, but 4 ssd's via thunderbolt2 will give you plenty to work with before you hit that limit.

Hope that helps....

Mike.

Hi Randin,

I used to have  all samples on HDD'S but am now on 2 1TB ssd's and HDD'S (in raid5 and raid0 formats), all via thunderbolt 2.

You're right about ssd's saving ram because of their read speed and the 3.5ghz bus speed copes brilliantly with the bandwidth but if you need more ram (which I bet you will at some stage), at least you'll be able to double your capacity if you need to.

Mike.