anyone having luck running ~10 instances of pod farm? if so, what are your machine specs, os and daw?
project stability / performance with pod farm
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Zack Uidl
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I know a studio around me that I do session work for has done this.
They have a quad-core Mac Pro with 6 or 8 gigs of Ram I believe running OSX 10.5 (leopard) That computer can handle anything though....
EDIT: Oh yeah, and they run both Cubase 5 and pro tools HD
They have a quad-core Mac Pro with 6 or 8 gigs of Ram I believe running OSX 10.5 (leopard) That computer can handle anything though....
EDIT: Oh yeah, and they run both Cubase 5 and pro tools HD
Sean in Silence
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I usually run Gearbox (basically the same thing) and can run 20+ instances no prob
When I did try out Pod Farm I got to about 5 and started to get some lag:/
My computer isn't super powerful though
Macbook Pro
mac os x 10.5.6
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 gb Ram
I'm sure a faster computer could run it though
One big gripe I had about Pod Farm (besides cpu) was that when you copy and paste it to another track it resets the settings
Not a huge deal but just kind of bothered me
hahaha
When I did try out Pod Farm I got to about 5 and started to get some lag:/
My computer isn't super powerful though
Macbook Pro
mac os x 10.5.6
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 gb Ram
I'm sure a faster computer could run it though
One big gripe I had about Pod Farm (besides cpu) was that when you copy and paste it to another track it resets the settings
Not a huge deal but just kind of bothered me
hahaha
Z3R0
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I have a mere 2.4 single-core, with XP maxed out ram (comes to like 3gb)
i had 4 instances running today, with a Superior 2.0, compressions, etc, and i was only pullin about have of my CPU and RAM usage. I reckon i could take a nothing 4 of PodFarm just fine, making it a good 8-10. That's on a single core too. Oh, and Reaper. <-- !!!
And i've never had a problem dragging PodFarm to another track and having it retain settings. But that might be Reaper saving it as well...
i had 4 instances running today, with a Superior 2.0, compressions, etc, and i was only pullin about have of my CPU and RAM usage. I reckon i could take a nothing 4 of PodFarm just fine, making it a good 8-10. That's on a single core too. Oh, and Reaper. <-- !!!
And i've never had a problem dragging PodFarm to another track and having it retain settings. But that might be Reaper saving it as well...
Sean in Silence
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I`m also using Reaper an I just drag and drop it from one fx window to another, and no settings ever got lost.
Also never had any problems regarding PODFarm in Cubase either.
Not sure how CPU intensive it is, since I run a quad core E6600 at 3GHz, but stability so far is pretty impressive.
Also never had any problems regarding PODFarm in Cubase either.
Not sure how CPU intensive it is, since I run a quad core E6600 at 3GHz, but stability so far is pretty impressive.
Machinated
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Erik Monsonis
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Machinated
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mine was on the last series of mac pro's - its a 8x2.8ghz (2 xeon quads). i went for 4gb ram.
its not even been close to getting maxed out and thats mixing projects with huge track counts, virtual instruments everywhere, resource heavy plugs everywhere and on the lowest buffer size.
its not even been close to getting maxed out and thats mixing projects with huge track counts, virtual instruments everywhere, resource heavy plugs everywhere and on the lowest buffer size.
HandsOfDespair
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I use gearbox and I can have a lot of instances running without any artifacts. I find gearbox really lightweight compared to other guitar vst like revalver 3.
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Fox Mulder
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Never bothered using more than 4 instances. No lags with 4, though. I'm sure it can handle a little more. My config is Core 2 Duo 2.66ghz, 2GB of Ram, Windows XP sp3.:Smug:
P.S. My hdd is super-fucked.
P.S. My hdd is super-fucked.
Fox Mulder
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just shows the way things are going that computers can handle recording natively now really without any issue. hopefully that will convince digi to put some alternative pro solution out there that can be run off the computers CPU without the need for TDM.
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