Spec required for Komplete

Hi
I use Logic and Komplete (mainly Session Horns, Session Strings, the Abbey Rd drum kits, Guitar Rig and the Rickenbacker bass) on a pretty hi spec iMac with 24GB of RAM, 4.2 i7 processor and all works great. I have the chance to buy a lower spec iMac for home which I know in its current form (8GB RAM, 2.3 i5 processor) cannot handle the set-up (we've tried - just freezes). My question is if I have the RAM upped to its maximum 16GB (which you have to get a shop to do, about £200 or just under) will it be able to handle the bits of NI Komplete that I use? I don't want to spend that only to find it still can't cope.
Thanks
Richard

 

Might be the hard drive. Did you check with something like DriveDX.
processor should be fine, but more RAM good idea. I usually tell clients to think of 4GB RAM overhead for OS and DAW ...so that would only be 4GB for instruments, FX, plugins, wrappers. So with less memory you could like run Kontakt, but then running Kontakt inside of Komplete Kontrol would need more memory. You could load up your desired apps and plugins on existing machine and use system monitor to see how much memory and CPU actually used.

 

Many thanks for the reply. When I had this Mac running I tried it with a Thunderbolt 3 SSD, booting from that instead of the internal, but it still froze on any project with NI instruments.
Looking now my 24GB RAM Mac is running a decent size project (several vocals, Session Horns and Strings etc) and Logic is using 11GB of RAM (CPU for Logic is up to about 67%). Total used 17.5 out of 24GB. So that suggests if I did have 16GB in the smaller Mac and didn't have other things running it could be OK. I just don't want to pay £180 or so for the RAM job to find it doesn't work (unfortunately this smaller Mac doesn't have slots to add it yourself).

 

First you don’t need a shop to do the ram replacement, you just need a tool called the “pizza cutter” and new seals, which you can get online. To answer your question fully about the other iMac you will need to post its serial number, so it can be looked up. Otherwise everyone is just guessing.