having more core is one answer, because if one core is waiting for some data, the other can still work (as long as it's well programmed to spread the load). When I monitor my cpu, he is not saturated at 100% (as he is when rendering offline) meaning he spend most of the time waiting for data and not calculating. low latency) the less time you give your cpu to handle things in real time. What I want is to be able to play theses instruments with as low latency as I can. with a slave computer loaded with hundred instruments on VEPro and streaming from SSD. But I was also assuming a good pro audio interface (apollo, rme.), a good pro DAW (pro tools, logic, cubase). I also upgraded to 64GB RAM (but wasn't near using the 48GB on the old system) and from Yosemite to El Capitan, which might account for some of the performance gain (or not), but apparently a faster machine (CPU wise) also helps Kontakt performance which you could be fooled to think was related to disk speeds. So I must say that I am so happy I made the decision to buy this system. I am not kidding, I don't think I have experienced a single dropout of anything working on this track that was giving me a headache on the old machine. A track I was working on which constantly had me a bit "in the dark" because not all voices were really playing, because of Kontakt diskmeter going in red, worked flawlessly - and I can even record and add much more stuff on top - and no sign of Kontakt going in red anymore. And Logic/Kontakt performance has been boosted significantly. I moved everything from my old 6-core to the 12-core, and apart from having to re-register Kontakt libraries, everything just worked right from the start. I never realized that it would totally transform and turbo boost my system like it did. I thought it was simply down to SSD random read speed not being that fast afterall.īut nevertheless, when I found a pretty inexpensive 12-core 3.46Ghz Mac Pro for sale on Ebay I decided to give it a try - at least I figured it would help performance of Zebra, Omnisphere and other synths.
#Upgrade 6 core mac pro to 12 core upgrade
People who experience dropouts and "sub par" performance from their Mac Pro running a lot of orchestral libraries off SSD's.Īnyway, if anyone reads this who has experienced the same as me, I just want to tell a quick upgrade experience.Īs mentioned I think my system was pretty powerful (6-core Mac Pro, 48 GB RAM, only SSD's, VE Pro + Logic, 2 PC slaves) and I was a bit frustrated that demanding tracks with a lot of voices streamed off those SSD's, pretty easily led to dropouts and the Kontakt diskmeter going in to the red. It was hard for me to create a topic title that might get the attention of people in the same boat as mine.
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