In order to connect the two computers, you will need Vienna Ensemble Pro which acts as a sampler to host your samples from your ‘slave’ computer to your main computer. The more samples you have, the less efficient and longer it will take to work within your DAW, so a lot of industry composers use a slave PC to save on CPU usage. SSDs can be pretty expensive relative to HDDs so if you can only afford one it’s worth weighing up whether you’d rather the sample libraries load faster (external SSD) or if you want the computer, DAW and everything else running quicker (replace internal HDD with SSDįor advanced users: you may also wish to have a ‘ slave’ computer, usually a higher-end desktop PC or Mac where you can run sample libraries from without using your main computer’s CPU.