Mac Pro and Slave Questions

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Mac Pro and Slave Questions

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I'm pretty well done with the Giga Windows machines :( and I'm trying to figure out how to put a master Mac and a slave to work. I have an old G4 gathering dust and wonder if it will serve me well as a slave, or if I should go ahead and buy a used Mac Pro and load it up with memory. I'd like to use the slave to run LASS and other VIs.

Also I don't really understand how to connect the two machines so I can monitor audio out of the slave, or even if I have to . . .

I realize these are rather nebulous questions, but I've been searching for a good while and have yet to come across a thread that say "do it like this . . . "
I write music for TV and Film on the following setup: Two Mac Pro 12 Core 3.46 gHz, MacMini server slave, VEP 7, DP 9.52, KOMPLETE KONTROL S88, Ivory, Stylus RMX, Trilian, Omnisphere, Zebra 2, RealGuitar (and a real guitar), RealStrat, GigaStudio (2), LASS, Kontakt 6, Komplete 5, Lynx Aurora 8, and a real B3! WaHoo!
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Re: Mac Pro and Slave Questions

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A G4 won't cut it with LASS. That said, get a used Mac Pro, buy Vienna Ensemble Pro software (and a Vienna Key) to host plugins on your slave computer, and the slaving to DP is seamless, through an Ethernet cable.
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Re: Mac Pro and Slave Questions

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Thanks John -

Anybody else want to weigh in on this? I figured the G4 was better served as a doorstop, but it didn't hurt to ask . . .

I think I will probably go the the Vienna Ensemble Pro unless someone comes up with another idea that makes sense.
I write music for TV and Film on the following setup: Two Mac Pro 12 Core 3.46 gHz, MacMini server slave, VEP 7, DP 9.52, KOMPLETE KONTROL S88, Ivory, Stylus RMX, Trilian, Omnisphere, Zebra 2, RealGuitar (and a real guitar), RealStrat, GigaStudio (2), LASS, Kontakt 6, Komplete 5, Lynx Aurora 8, and a real B3! WaHoo!
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