This will almost double my CPU multithread GeekBench score, and I am going to at least double my RAM to 64GB as well, if not more. I thought about jumping to Windows and beefing up the Dell XPS instead, but that just seems like even more work than I want to do, and more of an interruption to my flow.Īfter seeing the prices of the new Mac Pro, and deciding that I am not selling my car to buy it, I have settled on upgrading my Mac Pro trash can CPU from 6 core to 12 core. So I have gone back to just the single Mac Pro trash can, and the Dell XPS is practically new and gathering dust. Each tune had different instrument requirements so I created even more work for myself that way. I got tired of this after about 2 songs! Not being a film score composer, it wasn't like I could just load up 24 tracks of the same orchestra on a VEP project and leave that same project always on and ready. Maybe performance was slightly better, but not light years better as I expected, and not enough to keep a second computer up to date with all the VI's and what not, and to make separate VEP projects for each tune with all the instruments, and spent time while writing songs managing 2 computer instances and the associated VI's (I had to keep the Mac Pro ready to go as a backup). Of course I still had to have instrument tracks on my Mac Pro projects to accept the VEP 6 instances from the remote PC, and that still sucked CPU cycles from my projects. Unfortunately that's not been my experience. but I had the second PC connected via 1GB ethernet running only locally to the Mac Pro, and the Dell was working just fine running VEP 6 and many tracks of VI's, so I expected all my Mac Pro PT CPU troubles to disappear. I installed VEP 6 on the Dell, and spent hours installing and getting it all working correctly. I gathered all the necessary software licenses to load all my VI's to the second computer(I wanted to keep my original Mac Pro working exactly the same, at least for a while). So I purchased a Dell XPS tower with Windows 10 Pro and 16GB and VEP 6 with a Thunderbolt 2 card and an external Lacie 4TB hard drive. I researched the VEP solution with using a second computer, and I was hoping to offload much of the stress of the VI's onto the secondary computer. So I have been coaxing my Mac Pro to behave by disabling plug ins, freezing tracks, adjusting the buffer, etc. But stuff like SP3, Keyscape, Kontakt 6, Roland Cloud, etc. I am a songwriter/producer, and I tend to use all kinds of VI's in my productions, although not a full orchestra. I have a 6 core Mac Pro trash can with 32GB of RAM running PT 2019.10 HDX.
I have to add my first hand experience with VEP 6 and using a second computer.
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