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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 . . . "

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.

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.