Enough power on this older Macbook Pro for Gig Performer?

Gig Performer on Mac OS X
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I’ve been running Gig Performer on an older (late 2014) custom built rackmount PC with a 4th gen Core-I5 running at 3.5 GHZ and 24GB RAM with very good performance for my needs. I recently picked up a used Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, early 2013) with a 3rd gen Core I7-3740QM running 2.7GHZ and 16GB RAM. It is in very clean condition.

I did not buy this with GigPerformer as a planned usage, howere, Is this enough horsepower on a Mac to give me a similar experience to my old rack mount PC?

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I was using that model until 3 years ago and it was working (Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, early 2013)
Sure some plugins I resampled and played the samples in Kontakt.
But most was working fine.

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Which particular plugins did you resample? I’m just curious what was chewing CPU and requiring the need to resample?

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Some Huge String Libraries in Kontakt itself.
I resamples with BLISS.

At the same time I was using OMNISPHERE, KEYSCAPE and I think it was MASSIVE from Native Instruments.

And with patch persist to the next rackspace it was to heavy on CPU load.

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Thank you for the clarifications. I’ve never used (or even heard of) BLISS, but now I’m intrigued. I’m just trying to determine if I should justify an additional MAC license for GP (and I think the answer is yes).

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It something like Sample Robot, but a bit cheaper if I remember well…

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It can resample a plugin and export as soundfont format,
In Kontakt 5.5 (not the newest Kontakt!) you can import them (all loop points etc are fine)
and then save as an Kontakt Instrument.

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This is the other one, that I have on my list of whished plugins: