Cubase 7.5, H Sonic SE and Halion Symphonic Orchestra

Cubase
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Hi,

Could you please let me know, when I load HSO to H Sonic SE2 in Cubase 7.5 and then play the midi keyboard live with a couple of MIDI Channels on and some strings instruments loaded to Multi Program Rack, I keep getting in the VST performance the real-time peak reaching maximum immediately. It turns red and hear the sound of VST instruments in the HSO with clipping/cracking sounds. My MacBook Pro has processor 2.3GHz Intel Core i5, Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 and Software OSX 10.8.5. Do you think I will need any upgrade or adjustments in setting of my Mac?

Regards.

IS

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I’ve got very similar setup here (see signature), use C7.5, HS and HSO every day. Maybe adding another 4 GB of memory would eliminate your problems. But sometimes it seems to me that the best adjustment for Mac (considering working with Steinberg stuff) is to replace it with a PC.

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Thank you!
I thought there were better ways of doing it, as HSO may not need much RAM unlike high end VST Orchestral software.
IS

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Have you read the HSO manual? It says that some patches (those which use crossfading between different layers) use quite a lot of memory, because if you use such patch, all the layers are loaded in memory at any time. I recently did some orchestral arrangement with Combi patches, and had to freeze-unfreeze some tracks to be able to listen to the whole thing.