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Re: New Mac Pro (7.1)
At this point any sane company would get the 7,1 that gets you through the transition. Buy a next gen chip laptop for testing purposes, but when you have a paying client coming in you dont want to explain why your system has hiccups.
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Re: New Mac Pro (7.1)
In percentage or dollar? If something costs 5k and another costs 50k, if you sell it for 20% loss then I'd say 7,1 loses more money.
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Yea, that's why you pay 50k for it very good
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I collaborate with several producers, mixers and composers who use Cubase/Nuendo, Logic and PT so i'm comfortable with all three. They all run smoothly and reliably on my Mac Pro 6.1 (12 cores, 2.7Ghz). Logic has a slight edge when it comes to VST usage but not by much. A typical session has over 200 tracks and more than half of them are VST, no problem whatsoever with any of the DAWs mentioned. My sessions run at 128 ms buffer, with surround sounds and HD video via AJA Kona card. I used to have several PCs running VepPro but since switching my template to track presets, i have not look back. PT's handling of the latter is by far the best of any DAW i've used/tested. That being said, i had the Mac Pro 7.1 16 and 28 cores at the studio for past month and i barely notice any difference so i went with the 16 cores, 384 GB ram and one of their high end video card. |
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Wow, I wish I'd had the same experience as you with the 12-core trash can.
Amazing that you had the chance to compare the 16-core and 28-core systems. I'm guessing you were running similar big sessions on both systems. Did they both have enough CPU headroom that they were responding in a similar way? |
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Yes they both behave pretty well the same.
I tested my old sessions on all 3 DAW, they ran great with enough CPU headroom. |
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Just got my new Mac Pro up and running. This thread has been very helpful. Thanks everyone!
Wanted to put something out there for you all. I was debating what to do with all these extra archive firewire drives I have laying around, and I found a PCI firewire card that works perfectly in the new Mac Pro. SIIG 3PORT Firewire 800 Pcie 2X9PIN 1X6PIN Doesn't ever require additional power. Just drop it in an open PCI slot and you're rocking. No firewire adaptors or weird hubs needed. Thanks all!
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Thanks for the tip. I needed this!
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Re: New Mac Pro (7.1)
Hi all
Very soon I am about to buy a new 7,1 Mac Pro (the super fancy new cheese grater) I will be putting the Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i drive bay into it, for backup drives, internally. I read the Fusion Flex J3i manual, and I can’t figure out what slots the Fusion Fusion Flex J3i will use (?) I will have HDX-3 (AVID) cards in the computer as well… My main question is - with the Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i drive bay in place, will I need the $70 Belkin aux power cable kit to power for HDX cards? In other words - what slots will my AVID HDX 3 cards go into, with the Sonnet Fusion Flex J3i drive bay in place. Other question - I’ll also get the Sonnet SSD M.2 4x4 PCIe Card SILENT model…. (the new silent model) - and where will that go? What slot? Many thanks. |
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So, if you have a W5700X for example, then the GPU would take up slots 1 and 2; SSD card in slot 3 (x16); HDX cards in slots 4-6 or 5-7; I/O card in slot 8. Slots 5-7 will eliminate the requirement for a longer TDM cable, so I would recommend that.
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