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Subject:PC strength / vsti question
Posted by: nmerida
Date:2/12/2007 8:42:49 PM
Hello. My current DAW setup is as follows: PC - AMD Athlon 64 3700 / 2GB RAM / 2 80gb SATA Hard drives (one is for audio) INTERFACE - M Audio Firewire 410 I use ACID PRO 6.0 with Reason 2.5 as a rewire slave and also route Acid midi tracks to trigger a Korg MS2000 keyboard. A project will average about 15 tracks at 24/96. My question is, could my pc handle a software instrument like Absynth 4, Reaktor, Spec's Atmosphere while running Acid and Reason? Should I get an upgrade? Thank you. |
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Subject:RE: PC strength / vsti question
Reply by: pwppch
Date:2/12/2007 9:20:46 PM
You should be fine and then some. Reason is very lean and mean in my experiance. None of the synths you listed will be any more expensive than Kompakt. Have you tried using the NI Kompakt that comes with ACID 6 on your setup? How does it perform? Peter |
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Subject:RE: PC strength / vsti question
Reply by: nmerida
Date:2/12/2007 11:27:39 PM
Thanks for the info. I just didn't want to get a vsti and then have my pc crash all over the place. I haven't done any "real work" with the NI Kompakt - just messed around with it but it did load and perform well. By the way, know any cool vsti's that can give me A LOT of ambient, ethereal, creepy string sounds, a la goth? hehe. |
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Subject:RE: PC strength / vsti question
Reply by: Iacobus
Date:2/20/2007 10:11:29 AM
Check out this months new NKI via ACID Pro's Get Media feature, LoFreek EarCandy. (File > Get Media from the Web) Not any string sounds that I can hear but still very cool. Definitely play around with Kompakt and your own samples too. You can create some really funky material of your own. Iacobus |
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Subject:RE: PC strength / vsti question
Reply by: Richard Culver
Date:3/10/2007 9:40:48 PM
I have Spec's Atmosphere and it has some very cool and even wicked ghostly sounds. I Used it on a soundtrack and it was very cool. I recognize sounds from it - or ones very much like it - on soundtracks from time to time. |