The Best Computer For Orchestral Music Production - What's Needed And Why!

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=== IN THIS VIDEO ===
0:12 Single-Computer System (two options)
1:38 Multi-computer System
2:37 Enhancing the Single-Computer System
4:14 Mac or PC
5:21 Where to Start?

Let's say you've been composing music with your laptop for a while and you are ready to take the next step and you want a dedicated computer for composing orchestral music. Should you buy a powerful server computer? Can you start with a regular desktop? Can just one computer handle all the load or should you build a multi-computer system? Should you go with a Mac or a PC?...

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[PoiticayNcorrect]

My music production computer is a Dell G5.
Intel Core i7 10th Gen
10700F (2.9 GHz)
128 GB RAM
I modified it further by installing two 8 TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA III SSD's in the C and D drives. The original 2 TB SSD C-drive that came with the computer was moved to the E drive and the 8 TB HDD former D drive became my F drive. Lastly, I bought a WD Elements 16 TB HDD external drive for backing up. Seems like overkill but I have almost everything Spitfire Audio has to offer plus a ton of other large libraries including Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition, all the OT Berlin Series libraries, all the OT Ark's, all the Cinematic Studio Series libraries, CineSamples libraries, Keyscape, Omnisphere, Trilian, Damage 2, Symphonic Destruction, Jaeger, Nucleus, as well as a few more libraries of lesser quality. My computer stores them all and still has a massive amount of storage remaining for further additions. And it is super fast.

[synapticschism]

I agree with the multi computer system but for a single computer, my 1500€ Windows handles a lot more than any 10.000€ Mac can handle. As someone that works with Macs and Windows daily, I don't understand why people continue to insist on Macs for music production.

[jockojohn]

Ramblings from a relative newbie.
As a relative beginner in composing, I'm beginning to look at that whole process and ask myself what am I really trying to do. Is it making music, is it computer technology and electronics, is it making money or a living composing, do I have to play gigs to supplement income, do I need to learn to play other about life & time that's passing by - gone forever, and what am I missing?
It seems that at some point, you have to decide what you're "really interested you want to be a tech guy, a musical performer, a composer, or?? You only have 24 hrs/day so what are you going to spend concentrated time computers/tech, playing instruments, composing & performing, or?
Many of my friends gave up music because they over-loaded themselves with trying to be everything all the time. At what point do you a musician/composer....that's what I have interest & time enough about the equipment you need, have a tech put it together and show you how it all works, and then concentrate on what you want, and let others who know the tech part take care of that.
If you spend almost all your waking hours stuck inside a building in front of computers, instead of experiencing life, and new things and places and keeping healthy, all the rest doesn't matter if you're not healthy physically and is about life and human emotion....what are you gonna write about if your life is spent chasing composing, complex technology, sales, marketing, scheduling, At some point you have to decide what you really want and hand off the other stuff to those who do what they do better than you of course

[steveirby-theglasswhispere]

Hi, you are a champ, I love your obvious passion and enthusiasm. Your technical knowledge is clearly great but the really great thing is you are leading people to value for money systems for their needs. As you have said the wildest system is not going to make someone better than their basic skill level. I am interested in any info and classes you have available. Your accent just adds to the charm of this informative presentation. As well as the info it was an entertaining trip with you, blessings in all you do is my request.

[Notmehimorthem]

I am running a single PC with 6 M.2 NMV drives, two in mobo slots and four on PCI cards and presently CPU 1.7k 64 gb RAM. I have a master template with 2500 tracks, all purged, all ordered according to score order/synths/sound fx/ word. etc which load in an instant. One track per Keyswitch. When ever I get a new sound it goes into this template - everything is there ready to audfition . In Cubase I use Disable tracks which means I do not need VPro. When I work I work with a virgin project and when I need to audition say my best legato strings, I load the the Master template, briefly, then I can either audition what and use "Import tracks from other projects" to bring in what I need. My projects carry no weight at all and my master template loads in under. No need for a slave.

[CinematicSoul]

Hi Marc many thanks for your insight 🙏🏻 please enlighten your 2nd option for a one computer with VSL ensemble, really? It can run on one computer, with performance of 2 different devices and hundreds of orchestral instruments or other instruments? I’ve tried to do so with 2 PC computers and it wasn’t so effective.

Would you have the same result of one Mac mini 4M pro 64 gb ram with VSL Ensemble?

I would really appreciate your advice recommendation and response 🙏🏻

P.S
Would the mini Mac will work better with external hard drives for the VST’s libraries?

[tnbee]

hey your video is very infomative! I want to ask how about the m1 pro?? do you think it will be sufficient for a home studio setup?

[DonMcHardy]

One fantastic solution that I am surprised doesn't get more attention from music composers is the Blackmagic MultiDock. It's popular in video production but can serve composers equally well. The MultiDock has four front load and easily accessible slots for internal 2.5" SSD drives. Simply plug in whatever SSD memory size drives you need, and your computer reads the SSD drives as if they were part of the computer's own system via 10GB/s USB-C. It's also a 1U rack unit so your desk stays clean. It can also be configured as a RAID if you need a backup system.

[Vocalisto]

please make a stress test for orchestral music with the new Macbook Pro M1 Max 64Gigs of RAM

[korbenmusic]

I started your couse and you have a massive method to teach and a huge experience, I'm really happy.

[slimyelow]

An NVME system: ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4-Card ($60) and 4x Crucial M.2 drives at 4TB each ( 4 x 170$) = 16TB of M.2 SSD for 740 bucks. That will probably fit every Spitfire product and then then some

[madenchristian]

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[officialjrduncanpage]

Thanks for the guidance 👍 I've been seriously searching youtube for a video like this with great advice. Much appreciated

[TheseusTitan]

Thank you - I am interested in your one hour presentation on software and computer system setups. Please let us know how we can watch it.

[raymondspagnuolo]

Tons of information. You are very generous with your knowledge. Thank you and God Bless!

[baldwyntin]

Thank you. This is 2 years old, computers change fast. Is an update possible?

[DrVinceJohnson]

Nice info and Video - i'll be watching.

[L.Lyubomirov]

Thank you so much !!!Very simple and good video...!

[andrewfeazelle]

Damn all this modern stuff is expensive. I've written 3 symphonies, and several other orchestral pieces. And I wrote my first symphony using a rig I bought like 20 years ago. I bought the first version of the full VSL library back then, and had part of it on an old PC that wasn't anything special. Mind you I couldn't use the entire orchestra on it, so didn't get to hear what my tune sounded like until I recorded each section individually and put all the stems together, after the composing process was complete. But I just used an old Mac G4 with DP3 and eventually DP5 on it. I still use an old G5 with DP5 to this day, hooked up to MOTU Timepieces and 828's. My 20 year old PC still does the VSL strings + percs, while another PC that's only 10 years old does the brass + ww's. Was thinking of getting a 4th computer to get the latest libraries so would probably just get a i7, 2TB solid state, 32GB RAM PC and just get a small MOTU Midi 5x in/out and cheap audio out. Idk anything about using ethernet; I've always had firewire, USB, or even SCUSI, via internal cards. Not worried about lag using USB - can't be worse than a 20 year old computer.

[joshrainbow-IceTenor]

I love your videos. I have a question about purchasing a new computer. I am an opera singer and I bought a Apollo x4 and a late 2013 Imac 8G SSD 256. The plan was only to do my vocal recordings at home. That was 2 years ago. Today I got more into composing and I fell in love with that using the UAD Luna instruments. With 8 tracks and some plug ins my computer renders to 120 and begins to stutter - It doesn't love me anymore so I think it is time to get a new computer --- I was thinking about the Imac 2021 24 inch 16G and 1 terra...I also fel in love with the Albion One of Spitfire. When I make some compositions, some movie trailer work, writing a pop song for a client ect would this M1 computer do well for the work I want to use it for? Love to get some advice from you about this before I purchase the Imac and the Albion One...