rolifer
07-04-2010, 11:13 AM
Last year I was up against the wall w/ 4 Gbs Ram so I started looking for a new machine. Many here asked me to tell them how well it worked back then so here is an update.
I couldn't afford a custom built computer and for what I wanted I couldn't even afford a new one so I went to the Dell site and bought a refurbished Inspiron.
Stats
2.66 i7 chip
12 Gbs Ram
7200 rpm 750 Gb hard drive
2 DVD drives (1 writable)
The machine has no PCI slots but has 4 PCIe slots available.
I picked it up for about $1100 and have been unbelievably happy with it.
I bought a M-Audio Fast Track pro separately to use as a sound card and another internal 7200 RPM hard drive to hold libraries on.
To give you an idea of what I can do with this machine, her is a typical set-up of synths I use in Sonar
http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy301/rolifer/SynthRack.jpg
Each Kontakt 4 has 16 instruments loaded and each Play instance has between 1 and 16 instruments. Omnisphere uses 2-6 instruments per instance and Battery has 24 percussion instruments loaded. Kontakt 4 uses instruments from VSL, GPO, Native instruments and Evolve. FM8, Massive and Absynth are synths with patches altered by me. Play is the engine for EastWest and I use EWQLSO. RA, SD2, Ministry of Rock and Symphonic Choirs from them.
Almost all of the instruments use Lexicon reverb add to its Audio track and many other plug-ins are used as well including Channel Tools, Z3ta, EQ, along with some limit4ers and compression tools.
So you can see that this machine does a ton of work without having to pay $5000.
Ron
I couldn't afford a custom built computer and for what I wanted I couldn't even afford a new one so I went to the Dell site and bought a refurbished Inspiron.
Stats
2.66 i7 chip
12 Gbs Ram
7200 rpm 750 Gb hard drive
2 DVD drives (1 writable)
The machine has no PCI slots but has 4 PCIe slots available.
I picked it up for about $1100 and have been unbelievably happy with it.
I bought a M-Audio Fast Track pro separately to use as a sound card and another internal 7200 RPM hard drive to hold libraries on.
To give you an idea of what I can do with this machine, her is a typical set-up of synths I use in Sonar
http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy301/rolifer/SynthRack.jpg
Each Kontakt 4 has 16 instruments loaded and each Play instance has between 1 and 16 instruments. Omnisphere uses 2-6 instruments per instance and Battery has 24 percussion instruments loaded. Kontakt 4 uses instruments from VSL, GPO, Native instruments and Evolve. FM8, Massive and Absynth are synths with patches altered by me. Play is the engine for EastWest and I use EWQLSO. RA, SD2, Ministry of Rock and Symphonic Choirs from them.
Almost all of the instruments use Lexicon reverb add to its Audio track and many other plug-ins are used as well including Channel Tools, Z3ta, EQ, along with some limit4ers and compression tools.
So you can see that this machine does a ton of work without having to pay $5000.
Ron