Ableton Live + Omnisphere on my Macbook?

[Zorlee]

Hi everyone!
I've been playing the drums for over ten years and lately I've gotten really interested in electronic music.
My current machine is a 2,4 Ghz Macbook with 4GB of ram.
I really want to run Ableton Live and Spectrasonics Omnisphere. Will it be able to run these programs?
I probably won't use this rig live, I just want to use it for composing / producing.
I just love the user-friendliness of Live plus the awesome sounds of Omnisphere!

Thank you guys so much for your help!
Z.

[perplex]

Id say that is fine. You just need one instance of omnisphere open anyway

[vicz]

No problem, although with Omnisphere it is possible to layer up enough sounds to kill most machines if you really try. It does have a few ways of optimising the way it loads/uses samples but I've never really had to bother on my ageing iMac.

[jestermgee]

Omnisphere is a monster! It's great though watch the size of the patches. Save regularly because I have hit "out of memory" a few times. Normally a good excuse to take a break.

[acatcalledanarchy]

I upgraded my MacBook to 6GB and Live, Omnisphere, Trilian and Stylus all run happily together in a studio environment.

Peace, love and flowers....

[glitchrock-buddha]

That will run just fine. Omnisphere isn't that bad of a cpu hog, you can just load tons of instruments into it, which all take ram and cpu, so it's not different than loading many plug-ins. 4gb ram should be fine. I'd say use the memory server though to access ram outside of the Live application. It's a great feature of Omnisphere - you don't have to pull ram through the host.

Now if you were to get Trilian, then you might want more ram for those huge bass patches...

[bodhi71]

Never had an issue w/4gb of ram, and I've run several instances of on is here along with some other VSTs.

[Zorlee]

Thank you guys so much!
I'll order my copy of Omni tomorrow! Can't wait =)