I'm currently looking to upgrade from a "mid-2017 3.4GHz i5 iMac 64gb RAM" to a 2020 iMac (not wanting to wait for the new iMac announcement).
My question to all of you who have upgraded to the 2020 iMac is whether or not the i9 will allow for a more robust orchestral template (200+ tracks with Kontakt loaded on every track) than the i7? I will be maxing out the RAM at 128gb and upgrading to a 1TB SSD internally whichever CPU i choose.
On my current mid-2017 quad core i5 iMac w/ 64gb RAM I have my Ableton Live 10 template up to 200 tracks with Kontakt on each track (with every instance turned off until ready to use it) and yet I've already maxed out my RAM somehow at 60GB. I assumed having each Kontakt instance turned off would use no RAM but I guess thats not the case, unless its the number of tracks alone that is causing that. Not sure!
Anyway, I'd love to finish this epic template at about 250 tracks so I'm just hoping someone out there that also uses huge Orchestral/Kontakt templates on the 2020 iMac i7 or i9 can chime in and let me know what's possible and what would be too much for it to handle.
Thanks so much!
My question to all of you who have upgraded to the 2020 iMac is whether or not the i9 will allow for a more robust orchestral template (200+ tracks with Kontakt loaded on every track) than the i7? I will be maxing out the RAM at 128gb and upgrading to a 1TB SSD internally whichever CPU i choose.
On my current mid-2017 quad core i5 iMac w/ 64gb RAM I have my Ableton Live 10 template up to 200 tracks with Kontakt on each track (with every instance turned off until ready to use it) and yet I've already maxed out my RAM somehow at 60GB. I assumed having each Kontakt instance turned off would use no RAM but I guess thats not the case, unless its the number of tracks alone that is causing that. Not sure!
Anyway, I'd love to finish this epic template at about 250 tracks so I'm just hoping someone out there that also uses huge Orchestral/Kontakt templates on the 2020 iMac i7 or i9 can chime in and let me know what's possible and what would be too much for it to handle.
Thanks so much!