This is extremely easy and super efficient. Many people are finding success using Plogue Bidule or even Reaper as a VI host and rewiring the audio back into Pro Tools. If I buy a 12-core MacPro with 32 GB of RAM and then realize that Pro Tools makes the VI's choke – and I still need to get a dedicated computer for my VI's – I'd be pretty disappointed. Since I've been in the GigaStudio RAM-trenches for many years I don't want to just 'hope for the best'. PLAY kind of but not very nice implemented.ĭoes anyone know where can I find more detailed information like this?ĭoes anyone have experience with lots of heavy patches in PLAY using RTAS?

Omnisphere/Trillian is also using memory server. If you use Kontakt 4 Pro Tools 32 bit is perfectly fine because Kontakt 3.5 / 4 is using the RAM outside the host and more VI developers are working on similar solutions so the need of a 64 bit DAW is not very important within a year because all RAM hungry plugins as Sample Players and Drum VI´s will use this excellent 'memory server' technology which basically opens up another app in the background which are handling the RAM for the plugin. Is this even possible if I use the RTAS version and Pro Tools' limitation is 3 GB? I guess my question is (before discussing alternatives to Pro Tools, OS X, slave computers etc.): what can I expect working with Pro Tools and VI's on a really powerful MacPro?Īs an example: I've read about EWQL Hollywood Strings that 9 GB of RAM (dedicated to samples only) is a good start. What I mean is-don't get caught up in the 64-bit stuff as the fact is-today's computers are incredibly powerful no matter what you're doing! Worry about the end goal and how to get there, less about the technical 'crap' along the way. For others programs like Digital Performer, Logic, Sonar, etc might be better solutions. I find that writing music these days ProTools works just fine, but that is for me. I used to be a SERIOUSLY MIDI guy with an extensive rig as I mentioned above, but I needed a powerful MIDI sequencer that focused on being just that-but that was then and this is now. To some using ProTools for writing is counter-productive while others it's just fine. But you might also find this may not matter. There is nothing wrong with having to add a secondary system if need be. In some cases, that is absolutely going to work-but in some cases it will not.

YET THESE DAYS in the world of computers too often some users think of only one computer to handle everything. Why? Just one couldn't do what I needed it to do. For example I had (3) Kurzweil K2500's fully loaded, (3) EMU E4XT Ultra's fully loaded, (4) Roland JV2080's, etc. Back in the days of real hardware modules, keyboards, samplers, and synths-I had a room full of multiple models and in some cases, quantity of a particular model.

Bidule standalone