Logic Pro Running LPX, in sync, on 2 machines.

[djthirsty]

Hi All.
I'm considering the purchase of a CPU hogging softsynth before I leap into a couple of months of heavy programming work for tightly scheduled TV series.
I have well specked (word?) 2015 MBP with SSD for the boot drive plus sample libraries, NI Kontakt etc. on a separate SSD. I'm pretty happy with it's performance, but with this new synth is gonna struggle to run more than one instance.
I also have a not to shabby mac mini with an i7 quad processor and SSD drive.

I'm toying with the idea of running a 2nd instance of LPX on the mini, slaved to the MBP, just to host the soft synth, when I need it.

I've had a bit of a look around for Youtube clips and articles of real world examples of people with this kind of set up hoping to save myself a bit of time avoiding pitfalls and unnecessary trial error, without much success.

Can anyone here steer me towards any relevant resources or share their experiences in the area please?

 

[Eli]

Check out Vienna Ensemble Pro as a solution for slaving software instruments on a second machine. It's a very elegant solution, and seems like it would be perfect for you. You already have the second machine. A lot of film and tv composers use it as a means of keeping large palettes of sounds available as they are switching between multiple projects/cues.

 

[Uwe Rodi]

Sometimes I work with two MacBook Pro. One with LPX and the other with mainstage. I use an http://www.iconnectivity.com/products/audio/iConnectAUDIO4plus to combine the midi streams an make an aggregate audio device with my two interfaces (behringer x32 and iCA4+) to combine the audio streams. So Mainstage can be used for some audio instruments.