khollister
Senior Member
My current rig is a MP 5.1 6 core/24GB ram for Logic, UAD, VSL MIR & Aether with a VEP PC slave (4930K/64GB/SSD) for all of my instruments (Kontakt, Omnisphere & HW/PLAY). Works fine but I have one problem and one annoyance:
So I've started to think about a used/refurb 8-core nMP iTrashcan w 64GB and SSD's via the BM Multidock. I know Charlie, Daniel and a few others are running 8 & 12 core nMP's without slaves (as do some of the folks on the Spitfire videos), but I'm not convinced that even PLAY 5 would allow me to get there with the HWS/HWB/HWOW/HWP Diamond libs. And Omnisphere can be a pig at times too. Then there is MIR ...
I think I might have a pretty good chance of getting everything in a 8-core box except the Hollywood Diamond stuff, assuming I was using a bit of everything at once. Aside from HWO and Omni, I use Galaxy Pianos, Albion 1/2/3, SD3, BWW, CineBrass & Symphobia on a somewhat regular basis (probably forgetting some things).
A related future concern is eventually having to migrate from Win7 on the slave to Win10 with the background updates du jour that I apparently can't disable. I hate fooling with Windows and would no be looking forward to having to reconfigure the PC slave.
The other elephant in the room is a 5K iMac i7 (would certainly still need the slave to some degree), but I'm concerned about the single TB bus with both sample SSD's and the UAD Octo sitting on it. A new iMac with TB3 might solve that.
What I'm looking for are experiences/opinions on whether a 8-core nMP could eliminate my slave.
- I only have a UAD Duo PCI card and desperately need an Octo
- I would love to eliminate (or at least minimize) the use of VEP and a slave and get everything back into a single box
So I've started to think about a used/refurb 8-core nMP iTrashcan w 64GB and SSD's via the BM Multidock. I know Charlie, Daniel and a few others are running 8 & 12 core nMP's without slaves (as do some of the folks on the Spitfire videos), but I'm not convinced that even PLAY 5 would allow me to get there with the HWS/HWB/HWOW/HWP Diamond libs. And Omnisphere can be a pig at times too. Then there is MIR ...
I think I might have a pretty good chance of getting everything in a 8-core box except the Hollywood Diamond stuff, assuming I was using a bit of everything at once. Aside from HWO and Omni, I use Galaxy Pianos, Albion 1/2/3, SD3, BWW, CineBrass & Symphobia on a somewhat regular basis (probably forgetting some things).
A related future concern is eventually having to migrate from Win7 on the slave to Win10 with the background updates du jour that I apparently can't disable. I hate fooling with Windows and would no be looking forward to having to reconfigure the PC slave.
The other elephant in the room is a 5K iMac i7 (would certainly still need the slave to some degree), but I'm concerned about the single TB bus with both sample SSD's and the UAD Octo sitting on it. A new iMac with TB3 might solve that.
What I'm looking for are experiences/opinions on whether a 8-core nMP could eliminate my slave.