Hi everyone,
The problem is this: I have a 2009 Mac Pro (2x2.26 Ghz Intel Xeon - 8 core system with 16 virtual cores, 40 Gbs of Ram) as my main computer running Logic Pro X 10.4.8. The machine served me well, especially during the last couple of years, where I had a huge step up in productivity. Unfortunately, nothing escapes from time, and software plugins started getting more demanding, the "Goliath" of a machine it used to be, feels a bit weak in some occasions. I recently purchased a new M1 MacBook Air, with 16Gbs of Ram for various uses including music production. I was amazed by videos on YouTube praising this machine for how good it is. I even decided to go for it instead of going for the 16" Intel MacBook Pro, which of course was more expensive back in September (I would had bought the version with 32 or even 64 Gbs of Ram). But I decided to buy the M1 instead. I still can't overcome this bad decision. I was so disappointed with the performance of the Air...Honestly...Some software don't even run yet on this machine and the super disappointing factor was that I loaded in a Logic Pro X project as much Korg Triton Extreme plugins I could, and the maximum could only handle 32.....and I believe my Mac pro can handle 82 channels of the same plugin....(is this good enough btw?)
Nevertheless, I thought to combine the Intel and M1 worlds by connecting the two machines via ethernet. How can I use both computers simultaneously??? The ideal scenario would be to open up Logic on both machines, somehow sync them and work separately on each computer, while the audio comes from the main computer of the set up. Save each project individually on each computer, and if you want to hear the "complete" project you will have to open each project on each computer and hit play. The super ideal scenario would had been if you can just connect the slave computer to the main one and just use it somehow only as an external - additional computation power. I guess this is science fiction?
Lastly, I know about Vienna ensemble pro. I have even purchased it back in 2016 (version 6) with two licenses but I don't really understand it, so I didn't ever use it... I just spoke with the company's support and they told me to upgrade to version pro 7 in order to use it with the M1 Mac, which means another 200 euros out of nowhere....! How does it work though? As far as I have understood, you load in logic the ensemle pro 7 plugin in multitimbral (does this mean you have to decide at the creation of these channels the exact number of them?? can you add more channels if while working you realise you need more multitimbral channels??), you open up the ensemble pro 7 SERVER on your slave machine, which is essentially like a mixer and you load plugins. I guess the first plugin corresponds to the FIRST channel inside the multitimbral instrument within Logic? The second to the second etc? And what happens if you want to write automation and stuff in logic for one of those instruments on the slave computer? I guess you just draw within Logic just like any other channel with a plugin?? And finally, when you want to quit, ok you save your Logic project on the main computer. What do you do on the slave. You save an ensemble pro 7 server instance and when you want to listen to the entire project you load the Logic Pro X project on the main machine and the corresponding ensemble pro 7 server file on the slave machine? Is it worth it?
Thanks for your time, but these are questions that I have been having since forever. It would be great to get some feedback and thoughts...
Thanks much in advance and I look forward to your reply.
Anthony