Just built my new computer

[F5D]

Yeah, that sounds good! That's the way it has to be if you want to just relax and make music.

But you still have to choose carefully the plugins you use because there always are some way too cpu hungry plugins like NI Massive which will ruin your dreams.

[Doc Jones]

i suppose with a name like massive, you have to know what you are getting yourself into. Perhaps I'll wait for the Octocores before I pick up Massive!

One very resource hungry vst that I am now starting to use quite a bit is Synthogy's Ivory. Amazing!! But it does eat up both cpu (when I bump # of voices to 160) and memory (I have 2gb and one of the grands uses 1.2 gbs itself)

I may be upping my ram to 3gbs soon.

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by F5D

But you still have to choose carefully the plugins you use because there always are some way too cpu hungry plugins like NI Massive which will ruin your dreams.

The awful truth is that CPU power is like money: No matter do you earn 1500€ or 3000€ a month you still somehow manage to spend them all with no savings.

I updated my 1400+ PC to 3500+ A64 about 1,5 years back and oh the joy when my old CPU kill projects took only 10-20% of CPU power. "Now I can do anything I want!"... Could someone please spare me some money for extreme dual core PC, please?

It's just insane. I don't even realise where my CPU power goes nowadays. I'll probably have to blame GuitarRig.

Edit: Only if I could learn a way to tweak the sounds after I've composed.

[Old Vantaa Man]

Juho, that is true mate. Maybe we could buy one of Jase's Macs?

Listen sunshine. PC's are shit. But.. So are are Macs. But in the meantime, buddy your songs sound great.

There is NO END to gear-lust.

xx