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All, we are about to upgrade studio 1 for a job and time will be of the essence so I would really appreciate any advice on OS and LP updates, drivers and general compatibility.
We will be moving from a dual G5 2.0Ghz running 10.4.11 and LP8.0.
Half the job is about lush, epic Eastern orchestration so we will be wanting to use the Eastwest instruments, especially Silk & other Eastern ones, for realistic performances - plus half the job is about sound design so we'll also be acquiring Komplete 6 and hoping to make use of Reaktor & Massive.
Current plan is to stay on LP8 and get a new Quad core 2.66Ghz so I guess we will go to 10.5 or 10.6. If you would care to share your experiences and recommendations on the most stable operating system, LP8 update, and RAM combination, that would be great. We are running a Focusrite Saffire LE on Firewire which I have not been that happy about stability-wise to date (I would much prefer PCI) but we may have to stick with it. I hope we'll be able to run 4Tb of storage internally across the 4 bays in some sort of RAID configuration too, but again this will be a first so - grateful for tips.
Also, is there anything you think we should know about Play or NI compatibility/processor-hogging? And can we improve stability by installing apps and plugins in a specific order? DV are offering to install the Eastwest stuff before delivery which would be a huge time-saver but I don't want to do that if it'll be screwed up by installing LP8 afterwards!
We do lots of work to video (including this job) and we also often run quite a lot of tracks, perhaps 20-30 audio and 20 software instruments in the biggest cases. Also we tend to have a lot of fluid tempo changes in some of our work. On the G5 we're certainly used to maxing stuff out really quickly so anything we can do to improve workflow will be a great relief.
OK - thanks for reading, it's much appreciated. peaceout!
Tris
We will be moving from a dual G5 2.0Ghz running 10.4.11 and LP8.0.
Half the job is about lush, epic Eastern orchestration so we will be wanting to use the Eastwest instruments, especially Silk & other Eastern ones, for realistic performances - plus half the job is about sound design so we'll also be acquiring Komplete 6 and hoping to make use of Reaktor & Massive.
Current plan is to stay on LP8 and get a new Quad core 2.66Ghz so I guess we will go to 10.5 or 10.6. If you would care to share your experiences and recommendations on the most stable operating system, LP8 update, and RAM combination, that would be great. We are running a Focusrite Saffire LE on Firewire which I have not been that happy about stability-wise to date (I would much prefer PCI) but we may have to stick with it. I hope we'll be able to run 4Tb of storage internally across the 4 bays in some sort of RAID configuration too, but again this will be a first so - grateful for tips.
Also, is there anything you think we should know about Play or NI compatibility/processor-hogging? And can we improve stability by installing apps and plugins in a specific order? DV are offering to install the Eastwest stuff before delivery which would be a huge time-saver but I don't want to do that if it'll be screwed up by installing LP8 afterwards!
We do lots of work to video (including this job) and we also often run quite a lot of tracks, perhaps 20-30 audio and 20 software instruments in the biggest cases. Also we tend to have a lot of fluid tempo changes in some of our work. On the G5 we're certainly used to maxing stuff out really quickly so anything we can do to improve workflow will be a great relief.
OK - thanks for reading, it's much appreciated. peaceout!
Tris
