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

[lepetitmartien]

I think the best thing would be to stick to logic and use the second G5 as a Node so you'll be working with the 2 as one for power.

Now, the hardware solutions could be used as musical sketchbooks, to record an idea fast so you don't bother with the computer and dive in Logic only when you lay things properly.

Now that's my opinion, and I don't know both Triton and VS to have a definite idea. But having 2 G5 and not use them as a Node could make others jealous, you're "spoiled" and you don't know it!

[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?

[gdoubleyou]

Check the fxpansion site for the current download, so far no problems for me.