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douglas_carmichael
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject: NI Komplete5 or Roland Fantom-XR for main synth(s)? |
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I'm putting together a rig to be used for both an SL 'funky'/electronica livePA and also for studio production.
My question is whether I should go with Native Instruments Komplete5 (and possibly KORE2) for the "main" synth portion of my setup, or would a Roland Fantom-XR module be a better choice because it doesn't use my main CPU?
I'll be controlling the whole thing from an Elektron Machinedrum-UW Mk2 and a Roland MV-8000 sampling drum machine, and mixing through a Yamaha 01V96 mixer. (The analog sounds and voice modulation will come from a Roland JP-8080.)
Would a 2 x 3.0GHz dual-core Xeon / 8GB RAM MacPro be enough to run SL + streaming + softsynths on, or should I use another machine to run Nicecast?
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Jambalaya
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The first answer to your synth question is "whichever sounds best to you." 
However, I can tell you that running soft synths is one of the more processor-intensive tasks you can do. Streaming isn't going to be the big problem - running a soft synth in real time AND running SL is a lot to ask of a computer.
I have to say that I'm not running Mac - but even so, in general it sounds like you're expecting a lot of any machine. If you have only the MacBook, I'd suggest going with the hardware synth for SL performances. |
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douglas_carmichael
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Actually, I currently own (and work in SL on) a 2.4GHz Core2Duo MacBook Pro w/4GB RAM and a 160GB 7200rpm disk. (When I'm in SL, the fans spin up like a banshee, though.)
The MacPro is going to be the main core of my studio. Do you think that a system of that caliber (2x3.0GHz dual-core Xeon/8GB RAM) could work for live SL performances, or should I just either go with a hardware synth or run SL on the MBP and the synth stuff on the MP? |
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Jambalaya
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Well, if you have two then I'd definitely split the duties up between the two. No sense maxxing out your headroom if you can avoid it.
Even with a dual core machine (2.0 GHz Athlon), I see SL hitting 100% spikes on at least one of them all the time.  |
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