System for Orchestral Music Production?

I'm new to the current state-of-the-art in computer music production and I'm planning on purchasing a Mac Pro and Logic Pro 7 to use for creating orchestral music. I'm looking for advice from experienced composers as to what I'll need as to specs on the Mac Pro, as well as the best sample libraries, and other cards, software, and so on that would be essential.
My work goes from chamber-like passages to using the full orchestra, often with pipe organ added.
I'm looking to get five years or so out of this system, and want to burn my compositions to a master CD to use for CD releases.
Current plan:
Mac Pro 2.66, 4-8 GB Ram, 3 500 GB hard drives, USB keyboard (or perhaps a card to use Yamaha DX7 as keyboard input?), Logic Pro, VSL sample library.
Would the 3.0 ghz machine be significicantly better? Is there a need to upgrade from the standard graphics card?
It seems that Logic does well with more processors, so is it wise to wait for the quad core machines based on the recently announced Intel processors?
Any and all advice, directions to online articles and so on would be appreciated - thanks in advance!
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i can echo jonathans reccommendation regarding the esx route. the rest of his advice is bang on too.
i have had quite a bit of experience in this area. with logic you have enormous flexibility when it comes to this sort of thing.
i have a large orchestral template up on logicprohelp.com that you might find interesting as a starting point in using logic. the way i have evrything set up, i have my score appearing as a tradional score (i notate almost exclusively with step time) and making articulation switches from within 1 esx instrument. i have 1 large instrument for say violin1 with all the articualtions saved to it, and switched by cc1 (actually i convert program changes i insert in the score). using my method you can mix and match your orchestral libraries either within the esx instrument, or from within the environment.
which brings me to my next point - i would pick and choose between the libraries as much as possible. i still get a lot of mileage out of the old miroslav and siedlecek libraries and supplement it with VSL and some of my own samples. i think some of the VSL samples are appalling - completely unusable - and even some of their best ones are hard to use. in general i find VSL has to be smashed into shape - but they are extrremely well recorded and vibrant samples at times.
as for computer speed - i have run quite extensive mock-ups for large orchestra on my old G4 1ghz DP. you are waaaayy over spec unless you work extremely inefficiently. you'll be good to go on any modern system.
jonathan is correct about RAM. i run big mock-ups on just 2.5 GB and was running quite big mock-ups with less than 2GB on my old system. 4 GB will be tons - unless you are using 3rd party samplers that don't work as efficiently as the esx. if you do go 3rd party sampler YOU CAN use more than 4 GB of RAM by using AU lab. it is a standalone application in which you can load your sample libraies independent of logic but which logic will be able to access. it comes with Xcode developer kit that comes with tiger.
with regards to VSL - i would say if you just want to get one big to get started rather than fiddle around picking and choosing (and driving yourself to distraction as i have done) then it would be the one to go for.

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