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Usually you can do pairs without a problem. They just need to have the same basic specs. You normally put one pair in the 1 and 3 slots and the other pair in the 2 and 4 slots, but check with your motherboard's setup information. I think only once have I had all 4 by even the same manufacturer and I have had relatively few problems.
 
Ok awesome. Gonna wait a couples months to do it. I don't feel comfortable open up a computer myself (plus our house is dry and I don't trust myself that I won't accidentally shock something with static when I go to do it). The stores says they'll install it for $20. No brainer.
 
JohnG said:
So, in other words, if your computer can take, say, four RAM modules, instead of buying 4 modules each with 16 GB to get to 64, consider buying instead 2 modules each with 32 GB, thus leaving 2 slots available for later, just in case. It probably would cost more but it would allow you later to expand if you feel the need.
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It sounds like you are leaning toward following this wise advice, @Open Lane. When I was building a computer for this purpose (it was not as scary as I anticipated it to be), I did exactly this (following some sage VIC person's advice) and I am so grateful that I did. Like @jbuhler said, you really start to eat up RAM when you use mic combinations for various VIs. Initially I didn't think that I was going to be doing all of that complicated business aaaaand then this happened. I sure was glad that I had left room to grow and that I was starting with RAM numbers that I had previously considered to be absurdly decadent.

You might still get the the point of needing to freeze tracks and as @dzilizzi said, but it is very easy to do. And the longer you can go without having to do that then, well, all the better.

But yes: Have fun!!
 
Pete Brown said:
It sounds like you are leaning toward following this wise advice, @Open Lane. When I was building a computer for this purpose (it was not as scary as I anticipated it to be), I did exactly this (following some sage VIC person's advice) and I am so grateful that I did. Like @jbuhler said, you really start to eat up RAM when you use mic combinations for various VIs. Initially I didn't think that I was going to be doing all of that complicated business aaaaand then this happened. I sure was glad that I had left room to grow and that I was starting with RAM numbers that I had previously considered to be absurdly decadent.

You might still get the the point of needing to freeze tracks and as @dzilizzi said, but it is very easy to do. And the longer you can go without having to do that then, well, all the better.

But yes: Have fun!!
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Thanks, man! You know what the good thing is for me? Even though, right now, I'm broke from buying this computer, I purchased the EW Symphonic Orchestra set last week (on sale) with a giftcard I got for Christmas. Apparently, it's older so less demanding. I'm going to use it with the 64gb to get a feel for what I can/can't do with it. Once I'm ready to upgrade to HO (and it is in sale again) I will purchase it and the RAM around the same time.
 
For what it’s worth, I used to run 40+ tracks of Hollywood Orchestra Gold on an i7 2700k with 16GB Ram. It was only the mid mic’s, but you’ll have no problem running 40+ tracks of HOOPUS with one mic position on that machine.

Heck, I used to run EW Symphonic Orchestra on a Core Duo with 4GB! That library is not resource hungry at all.
 
Jeremy Spencer said:
For what it’s worth, I used to run 40+ tracks of Hollywood Orchestra Gold on an i7 2700k with 16GB Ram. It was only the mid mic’s, but you’ll have no problem running 40+ tracks of HOOPUS with one mic position on that machine.

Heck, I used to run EW Symphonic Orchestra on a Core Duo with 4GB! That library is not resource hungry at all.
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That's great to hear!! :)
 
Open Lane said:
Hi. My name is Greg and I am new here. I am eyeing a new computer with a 16core i9-12900k cpu. It also has 64gb dd4ram.

I currently have eastwests symphonic orchestra platinum software and am planning to upgrade to Hollywood orchestra at some point.

Do you think that this computer would be good for either of these softwares? Anyone know about how many instrument tracks you'd expect me to be able to que within such programs before running into issues?

I was hoping like 20 or 30. Is that realistic?
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I built a new PC six months ago (i9-12900K, ASUS ROG STRIX Z790-H, 64 GB DDR5) solely for audio work. Seemed great at first, then came the audio glitching in both Bitwig and Reaper.

These links were indispensable in my efforts to troubleshoot issues and optimize my system's performance for audio work:


Resplendence Software - LatencyMon: suitability checker for real-time audio and other tasks

LatencyMon: suitability checker for real-time audio and other tasks
www.resplendence.com


And ultimately the no-hyperbole game changer was using ParkControl and ProcessLasso (both free from Bitsum) to keep all the i9's cores on duty during DAW use:

bitsum.com

ParkControl – Tweak CPU Core Parking and More

ParkControl is free software to display and tweak CPU core parking settings in real-time. It also has an assortment of complimentary power automation features.
bitsum.com bitsum.com
 
pete_crum said:
I built a new PC six months ago (i9-12900K, ASUS ROG STRIX Z790-H, 64 GB DDR5) solely for audio work. Seemed great at first, then came the audio glitching in both Bitwig and Reaper.

These links were indispensable in my efforts to troubleshoot issues and optimize my system's performance for audio work:


Resplendence Software - LatencyMon: suitability checker for real-time audio and other tasks

LatencyMon: suitability checker for real-time audio and other tasks
www.resplendence.com


And ultimately the no-hyperbole game changer was using ParkControl and ProcessLasso (both free from Bitsum) to keep all the i9's cores on duty during DAW use:

bitsum.com

ParkControl – Tweak CPU Core Parking and More

ParkControl is free software to display and tweak CPU core parking settings in real-time. It also has an assortment of complimentary power automation features.
bitsum.com bitsum.com
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THANK YOU! These links could potentially be lifesavers! I appreciate your sharing.
 
Got my new computer setup. Has been a long day but all is finally done.

Ran into a couple hiccups in the process but all is good. My ssd was causing my daw to lag and crash. I decided to reformat it to NTFS and it works great now. So glad to be done!! Tomorrow, COMPOSITION day!

:)
 
pete_crum said:
And ultimately the no-hyperbole game changer was using ParkControl and ProcessLasso (both free from Bitsum) to keep all the i9's cores on duty during DAW use:

bitsum.com

ParkControl – Tweak CPU Core Parking and More

ParkControl is free software to display and tweak CPU core parking settings in real-time. It also has an assortment of complimentary power automation features.
bitsum.com bitsum.com
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Regarding core parking maybe can be useful the following advice too:

www.dannymoran.com

How to disable CPU core parking in Windows 11 - Danny Moran

This is a step-by-step guide for disabling CPU core parking in Windows 11. In this example, I show you how to identify if your CPU cores are being parked, and how to use the registry to modify a key to stop them going into a parked state.
www.dannymoran.com www.dannymoran.com
 
You can most definitely buy 2 separate packs. If it were not so, people wouldn't be able to upgrade RAM down the road, and of course, that is definitely not the case.

As far as storing your samples and/or plug-ins on an external USB drive, that is not a good idea, as loading speed will be limited by the speed of your USB port. You want the sample libes on your fastest drive, and NVMe is still the fastest, followed by SATA.

External USB drives are great for backing up your projects and downloads. You are of course backing up your projects religiously....
 
Superabbit said:
As far as storing your samples and/or plug-ins on an external USB drive, that is not a good idea, as loading speed will be limited by the speed of your USB port. You want the sample libes on your fastest drive, and NVMe is still the fastest, followed by SATA.

External USB drives are great for backing up your projects and downloads. You are of course backing up your projects religiously....
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You almost certainly don't want your sample libraries on your system drive. Lots of reasons for that, but the practical consideration is that you quickly run out of room. You also don't need the speed of an internal drive to stream samples. External drives work fine so long as they are SSDs. You don't even need the fast but still somewhat slower speeds of NVMe SSDs connected via Thunderbolt. Where the speed comes in handy is loading the samples at the beginning of a session. But once everything is up and running, streaming samples won't burden a low end consumer grade SATA SSD connected over USB3.
 
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