Please explain to this 5 year old why he needs VSL Ensemble when he's already got a good DAW

[gnosis123]

I had Apple put in 32GB when I bought it, but this Mobo is 3-channel so - this from consulting one the tech-savvy VSL guys - 24 is actually more useful RAM.

It seems to depend on the memory footprint of your task:
http://blog.macsales.com/22745-mix-and- ... -mac-pro-2
The 2013 MP has quad-channel memory. Haven't seen any benchmarks on what difference that makes for music, though...

That was a huge waste of money at Apple's prices, and then during a move I lost the RAM I had taken out.

The other thing to consider is the memory speed. If you're running 4.1 firmware, you're stuck at 1066Mhz, whereas 5.1 can handle the 1333Mhz memory.

[jancivil]

Well, my situation is certainly "memory hungry" and Christian at VSL appears to me to be authoritative enough to speak to this so I went with a multiple of 3 per his argument, which was that too much of that 32 gigs was going down the drain. I don't know what particular real world gain 4 channel or faster spec'd RAM is, either. I'm no expert.