Best Way To Set Up Two G5s?, Best way to set up two G5s? Options

[mrdelurk]

i have two PowerMac G5s, i have Logic 7 and just buying Cubase SX3 now, because I like some of its ideas too. i use less than 8 plugins, mostly softsynths. I also have a Roland VS1824CD digital multitrack and a Korg Triton Studio 88 - both valid alternatives to Logic and / or Cubase, as I typically record my tracks right from the first on any device.

My style is jazz/new age/classical. I love to stack up a kajillion tracks, until not a 16th note silence remains anywhere to poke in another 'pingg' :-) If inspiration hits, I usually record into the closest, and turned on device at the moment, then when it starts choking under the load, I add the next, etc. I never developed any personal preference towards picking either the Korg's sequencer, the Roland VS, Logic or Cubase first. My questions are:

1.) to streamline cabling, which of the 4 environments (Korg Triton, Roland VS, Cubase, Logic) should I pick to be my #1 tool in the future? 2.) is there a "best way", how tasks should be divided between two G5s - one running sequencers and the other hosting plugins, or one with Logic and the other with a synced Cubase... or...?

Thank you in advance for all the suggestions.

This post has been edited by mrdelurk: Wed 2 Nov 2005, 01:15

[mrdelurk]

I think the best thing would be to stick to logic and use the second G5 as a Node

The Node approach is nice, but 7 of my 8 favorite plugins are all VSTi's, and I could not get them to work in Logic 7 yet with FXpansion's VST Wrapper. (Thsi is one of tne reasons why I'm considering to buy Cubase SX3.) If i monopolized both G5s for Logic with this Node approach, how would i run these VSTs?