I'll see if I can take your concerns in turn:
What is the best I can do to upgrade my system? : RAM? CPU? Faster HDD/SSD? How easy/expensive is it to upgrade CPU?.Īlso - Is it possible to install a card that facilitates Thunderbolt connectivity?. I frequently have the CPU meter in Logic Pro X in the red. I'm thinking of getting a Hybrid Hard drive to run Samples off. Or is it worth saving my bucks for the new Mac Pro, considering the lack of thunderbolt connectivity? I mean real Thunderbolt, utilising its speed etc. What is the best I can do to upgrade my system? : RAM? CPU? Faster HDD/SSD? How easy/expensive is it to upgrade CPU?Īlso - Is it possible to install a card that facilitates Thunderbolt connectivity? And I don't mean Firewire to Thunderbolt conversion. I frequently have the CPU meter in Logic Pro X in the red, even maxing out to CPU Overload in big projects with Omnisphere, Absynth etc - also giving me big latency issues. Then I will run audio from my HDD and OS/applications from SSD.
This is something I will address: I'm thinking of getting a Hybrid Hard drive to run Samples off. I know this isn't ideal - you should run applications, audio and samples off three separate discs. I have samples and audio running off both discs. I'm a Producer running Logic X, with Quad UAD-2 and Apogee Ensemble. The SSD is the boot disc running OSX Yosemite 10.2. A 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s HDD and a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. I have a Mac Pro 2012 Quad Core 3.2GHz w/ 3x 4GB 1033Mhz RAM. Firstly, I apologise: there is a very similar thread below but it's not exactly the same, and I don't like hijacking someone's thread.