Hi there,
I need some serious help with upgrading my recording setup.
First I'll give you some insight in the things I use at the moment , then all the things I want to upgrade and then I would be quite thankful if someone could help me out and pointing out where I'm going wrong with my train of thought.
Computer Specs:
Early Macbook pro 17"
2,3 GHz Intel Core i7 quad core
8GB RAM
7200rpm 500 Hard-drive disk
Running OSX Yosemite
Audio Interface:
Apogee One
DAW:
Logic Pro
So, the problems at this moment.
I do a lot of quad tracking on my guitars, add some bass and rely fully on Superior drummer for drums.
All goes well until I get to the point I want to lay down guitar solos and the vocals on top of the songs...
CPU use goes nuts, and latency becomes unbearable, but did not even start on adding some effects within my DAW.
so that comes down to 4 tracks of guitar, 1 track of Bass, 1 track of drums...and already pushing my system to its limits????
What I plan to do on getting rid of the aforementioned hustle:
Get a SPL crimson interface instead of the apogee ONE (will this help with the latency problems?)
Upgrade my RAM to 16GB (Does this affect latency at all?)
Replace my harddrive with a SSD 512GB (I rely fully on the internal hard drive, maybe that's something I do wrong as well?)
Or should I even consider going the 2nd hand MACpro desktop route with more CPU cores and massive RAM capacity?
Will these upgrades make an enormous difference or am I just dreaming wildly?
The big plan is to implement orchestral software etc in the whole equation of producing my own album, so I need much more power on tap!!!!