I posed the question last year and got 3 answers with the set-up I had. And audio is pretty cpu lightweight compared to video. I'm not sure if I would buy a 12 core now.
#Logic pro mac pro
This mac pro design is 3 years old (I tried to hold off, but 2008 mac pro completely died). and don't forget you're gonna have to switch over to Thunderbolt, I bought two Thunderbay 4 RAID systems. The price increase for 12 cores is monumental. I then turn the most CPU intensive instruments to audio, and reset channel strip to keep going. I then make channel strips and instrument presets, and name channel strip in midi region. I like to keep song in live MIDI format for as long as possible, to make adjustments etc. At that point I have to raise the buffer size, and takes a while for audio core to completely boot up. Invariably as i get towards 40 or so virtual tracks Logic starts getting weird. (about 60 of them Kontakt or other virtual instruments.
I bought the 6 core 2015 mac pro and put in 64 gig memory. It might be interesting to check RAM use in the Activity Monitor utility when you open a massive project of yours, to see what your true use is. A more-or-less complex signal flow (tracks feeding busses feeding other busses, for instance) may also affect this.īottom line, in your situation with a massive use of a huge number of instruments, in most cases you should be better off with the highest number of cores.Īs regards RAM, more is always better when a lot of parallel virtual samplers (as is your case) are involved, although I think that 64GB is possible largely more than what you truly use. If very unevently, then single core performance would matter a bit.
What may affect that is whether the plenty of plugins are used fairly evenly on your tracks. Given your goal, and the fact that your Kontack tracks are played in parallel no matter what, it means that their own workload should be spread fairly evenly across the 12 cores, and in that case 12 is better if you mean to have 100+ of them.
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