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  • Advice needed for dedicated VEPro computer

    J
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    Reworking (and eventually upgrading) my computer setup. Who can offer advice?

    • "on the road & midi keyboard Laptop" is a MacBook Pro 13" (late 2013) i5 16GB (keyboard currently cannot be connected to / located near the "studio" physically, so I do midi-related work from there via ProTools and - just trying to learn it - Logic Pro X)
    • "studio computer" for ProTools is a 64GB i7 MacMini 2018
    • there's a 64GB 2xXEON HP Z820 (Win10) workstation available (unfortunately, no Thunderbolt 2 card available, so I cannot connect my 4xSDD-Thunderbolt3-OWC-Thunderbolt 4 Mini-case holding the sample libraries, since the case only works with TB3 or TB2, no USB 3.1 compatibility

    So:

    • where would you "house" VEPro and the libraries?
    • any idea on how to get around the Thunderbolt issue on the Z820? There was a TB2-PCI-E-card available, but you can't get it anymore. The "china"-replicas on eBay seem to miss the necessary connection cables for the motherboard.
    • or does it make sense to replace the Z820 with a used 128GB 12-(8?)-core Mac Pro 6.1 "trashcan" for that purpose?
    • how much CPU power is needed to run various sample libraries properly (incl. VEPro). I know, that RAM is of the essence, hence maxing out with 128GB.