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Re: Which Mac computer will run orchestral projects with VSL

Postby Surfwhammy » Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:11 pm

Rubens wrote:Hi Just to say that I figure out how to make my own template with VE PRO. Anyway it seems that my computer is slow to handle... But it is nice to know that the new macbook pro could do the job.

Thank you all,

Rubens.


If you get a new MacBook Pro, then you might be able to use your 2007 MacBook Pro as a server for streamng VSL instrument samples to the new MacBook Pro via Vienna Ensemble Pro 5 (VE PRO 5), which if I understand everything correctly makes it possible to have a lot more instruments in the orchestra, as well as spreading the processing work to get faster response and so forth . . .

The only caveat for the 2007 MacBook Pro is that you cannot run Boot Camp 4.0, which excludes being able to run 64-bit Windows on the 2007 MacBook Pro--if you were thinking about doing a Windows version of the streaming VSL instrument samples--but it appears that VE PRO 5 can be used on the Mac for a streaming VSL instrument sample server . . .

[NOTE: This probably applies to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), but it only mentions Leopard and Snow Leopard, and there might be additional restrictions for Lion . . . ]

Boot Camp 4.0: Macs that work with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Apple Support)

Ensemble Pro opens up VSL’s hosting technology to third-party instruments and allows 32-bit and 64-bit Mac and Windows systems to communicate over a network, spreading the software instrument load.


[SOURCE: "VSL Vienna Ensemble Pro: Software Instrument Host" (Sound on Sound, February 2010 ]

Mac version: 32-bit and 64-bit version for Intel Core 2 Duo/Xeon with Mac OS X 10.5.7 or higher.


[SOURCE: Vienna Ensemble Pro 5 (Vienna Symphonic Library)

And based on the information wcreed51 and srenmp provided, I think that you have an excellent solution, with verification from folks who actually use the VSL software and instrument sample libraries . . .

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Re: Which Mac computer will run orchestral projects with VSL

Postby Rubens » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:24 pm

Yes! That's for now a great solution! Thank you all for the great help!!!!

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