I've just finished scoring 5 mins of a film. My PC is quite old now, a HPZ800 with dual Xeon 5560 CPUs. It has 64Gb RAM and SSDs for replaying sample libraries. My current project has about 20Gb of samples loaded in and around 30 instances of Kontakt with Native Instruments Symphony Series for orchestral samples and Komplete Ulitmate 11 for other sounds.
As I've put the score together, I haven't noticed any real lag but I've tried using the SL32 today to mix the track and it's just unworkable. Maybe I'm asking too much of the PC, but I eventually exported all the instruments as stems and opened a new project with about 30 tracks. This didn't really fair any better. The problem is that writing automation data seems really CPU intensive, which I didn't think it was going to be. Even writing data for a single line or two seems to lag more than I would have thought. I have used automation before, but much more sparingly, setting a mix up from the beginning and the odd tweak throughout. The problem with a film score though, is that the dynamics of each passage vary greatly (this is an action scene). I think tomorrow I'm going to try and sub the audio channels out and record them to SD card, and try doing a mix from there and try using scene recalls.
Any suggestions really welcome.
Thanks,
Al
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Window 10, HP Z800 PC, Dual Intel Xeon [email protected] (2 processors), 64Gb RAM, 2 x SSD, 2 x HD, Native Instruments ULTIMATE KOMPLETE 11 plus Symphonic Series Library, Nektar Panorama P6, Komplete Kontrol S25, Studio One 4 (pro), Cubase 9.5 PRO, Dorico 2, Notion 5, Studiolive Series 3 32, various outboard. |
