Is a 2015 i5 iMac good enough for V Collection 9?

[seandynan]

I have the original V collection running on a 2015 i5 iMac and it seems to be okay. I'm thinking of upgrading to the latest v9 but does it require a more powerful computer? I tried some Roland cloud synths on it last year and it just couldn't cope with a single instance of Roland's Jupiter 8 emulation.

[sumo999]

I ran V8 plugins on that same machine without any major issues. But I wasn't creating tons of tracks & instances either.  You could demo, say, the new CS-80 and see if the 2015 keeps up.  (I was happy with audio stuff on mine, but just had to get me an M1, just because.)

[MajorFubar]

It's really going to depend how many tracks you're using. Currently I only have V6, but I do have Alalog Lab 5 (or should we call it 5.5 now), and I find it way more processor intensive than previous iterations. If you create a lot of tracks with lots of additional processing, it's possible you might have to freeze / lock a few tracks (or whatever phrase your DAW uses for bouncing the midi track to audio, so it's only streaming audio audio from your drive, not processing everything in real time).

Certainly I don't think you'll have any issue running an VC9 synths one at a time. If your computer couldn't handle Roland Cloud's Jupiter 8 I'd say that's more an indictment of Roland than your computer. Your computer should be plenty powerful enough.

How about downloading the time-limited demos and find out?

[seandynan]

Thanks for the advice. 

[nicod]

Which version is your iMac ? dual core 1.6 Ghz or quad core 2.8 Ghz ?