Reason 10 upgrade . are my specs ok?

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samp
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23 Nov 2017

Greetings all . so the sale on the 10 upgrade is too good to pass up. Before i go for it can anyone tell me if my imac specs are ok. this is all i have and cannot upgrade for awhile.
imac 2009
core 2 duo 3.06ghz
16gb ram

currently 9.5 is the most sluggish performance i have ever had with reason. Is 10 gonna be any better? thanks all.

samp
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23 Nov 2017

also jist to clarify when i say sluggish i mean alot of beachball spinning when loading patches and moving around the rack. Never felt it this much before 9.5.

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Exowildebeest
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23 Nov 2017

No, your specs kind of suck, and Reason 10 does not perform better. Sorry :(

samp
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23 Nov 2017

Exowildebeest wrote:
23 Nov 2017
No, your specs kind of suck, and Reason 10 does not perform better. Sorry :(
thanks. i kinda thought so.

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Oquasec
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24 Nov 2017

for reason 6 and below you need at least a pentium 4.
for reason 7 and above [since reason doesn't use the gpu highres vsts need a good cpu] so no less than an i3 or athlon with 4 cores.

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Gorgon
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24 Nov 2017

Oquasec wrote:
24 Nov 2017
for reason 6 and below you need at least a pentium 4.
for reason 7 and above [since reason doesn't use the gpu highres vsts need a good cpu] so no less than an i3 or athlon with 4 cores.
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SoulState
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24 Nov 2017

samp wrote:
23 Nov 2017
Greetings all . so the sale on the 10 upgrade is too good to pass up. Before i go for it can anyone tell me if my imac specs are ok. this is all i have and cannot upgrade for awhile.
imac 2009
core 2 duo 3.06ghz
16gb ram

currently 9.5 is the most sluggish performance i have ever had with reason. Is 10 gonna be any better? thanks all.

Hi Samp
My Comp Specs are:

Mid 2011 iMac 27"
Intel Core i7
3.4Ghz
32gb Ram

And it's flying...no spinning beach balls - no problem handling Kontakt VST.
Did my own wee stress-test...150 Thors + 50 Pulverisers. I'm happy with that.
Buffer size 128
Bought the thing a couple weeks - 2011 model - so suppose that could be considered "old".

Before that I was running something similar to yours:

2007 iMac 24"
Intel core 2 duo
2.4Ghz
4gb Ram
...and that was fine up until about year ago, then things started getting slow. But it wasn't just Reason that was slow EVERTHING was.
Boot-up took about 3mins - thats if it started first time - used to get "FOLDER with Question mark icon" when Booting-up most of the time, so would have to try and Boot several times before it would actually start.

Anyway [point being] it was a very sick computer, So Reason under performing was probably more to do with my sick Mac and pitiful RAM spec.

Is it just :reason: Reason that's SLUGGISH on your Mac mate?
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samp
Posts: 59
Joined: 25 Oct 2015

24 Nov 2017

SoulState wrote:
24 Nov 2017
samp wrote:
23 Nov 2017
Greetings all . so the sale on the 10 upgrade is too good to pass up. Before i go for it can anyone tell me if my imac specs are ok. this is all i have and cannot upgrade for awhile.
imac 2009
core 2 duo 3.06ghz
16gb ram

currently 9.5 is the most sluggish performance i have ever had with reason. Is 10 gonna be any better? thanks all.

Hi Samp
My Comp Specs are:

Mid 2011 iMac 27"
Intel Core i7
3.4Ghz
32gb Ram

And it's flying...no spinning beach balls - no problem handling VST Kontakt installed.
Did my own wee stress-test...150 Thors + 50 Pulverisers. I'm happy with that.
Buffer size 128
Bought the thing a couple weeks - 2011 model - so suppose that could be considered "old".

Before that I was running something similar:

2007 iMac 24"
Intel core 2 duo
2.4Ghz
4gb Ram
...and that was fine up until about year ago, then things started getting slow. But it wasn't just Reason that was slow EVERTHING was.
Boot-up took about 3mins - thats if it started first time - used to get "FOLDER with Question mark icon" when Booting-up most of the time, so would have to try and Boot-up several times before it would actually start.

Anyway [point being] it was a very sick computer, So Reason under performing was probably more to do with my sick iMac and pitiful RAM spec.

Is it just :reason: Reason that's SLUGGISH on your Mac mate?
Thank u all for the responses so far. Its not only reason but reason 9.5 gives me so many beachballs that i get frustrated and dont want to even use it sometimes. This never happened prior to 9. but i know its time for a new imac for sure.

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