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Originally Posted by albee1952
Indeed, i5 and minimum RAM is woefully underpowered. i7 and lots of RAM makes a major difference  |
Woefully underpowered? Really?
Yes, an i7 is more powerful than an i5, and it is true that the more RAM you have, the more breathing space you have for disc cache and loading samples into VI such as Kontakt.
An i7 is helpful for massive sessions, but the OP gave no indication that he's doing anything on that scale. An i5 should be more than capable of doing what he wants.
Personally, I think we should all be very careful about spreading myths along the lines of 'woefully inadequate'. i5 computers may be underpowered compared to top of the range systems, but they are still very able to do a decent day's work.
Not forgetting that an i5 with 4gb RAM is what is specified here ...
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...m-Requirements
... as required 'for optimal performance and reliability'.
So unless the guy is trying to do something well above average typical sessions, the i5 is by no stretch of the imagination 'woefully underpowered' for his needs.
I can do a lot in Pro Tools 12 even on my 2009 Core2Duo MacBook Pro ... record 24 tracks at once, record overdubs while playing back those tracks, load Superior Drummer to an Instrument Track and feed 10 channels of audio from it into aux tracks, load up Vienna Ensemble Pro, link it into Pro Tools using its AAX plugin, with Kontakt loaded in Vienna, and several sample libraries loaded and playing via Vienna's multi-out audio into yet more aux tracks in Pro Tools.
I don't use many Native FX, as I have a UAD Satelite Quad and UAD Solo connected, but I do sometimes use a handful of Native FX too.
By comparison, an i5 has much more power.
The second room in my studio has an i5 iMac with 16gb RAM, and we run full band recording and mixing sessions in there with very little problem.