If I were to put a madi FC HDSP card into an early 2008 Mac pro (8 Core Xeon) running Cubase ...
... would that give me enough computing power to route all audio channels into Cubase?
... would there be enough headroom left for Cubase to handle a lot of midi data and some audio mixing (FX) in Cubase?
I have a way newer i7 PC. I would however prefer to use it as a slave for heavy sample library use and Vienna MIR. The Mac would primarily do the midi stuff and mixing all incoming channels (UAD Plugins on several busses and some native VST). I am trying to find out what makes more sense, before building everything together.