The Grammys Suck [message #61116] |
Thu, 08 December 2005 12:49 |
DC
Messages: 722 Registered: July 2005
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ASUS,
> > I know that one of the PCI slots will be hardwired to the AGP and I know
> > that since the Matrox cards share the same driver, this *should* work
nicely
> > with the host card of the Magma using az PCI slot that (hopefully) isn't
> > sharing an IRQ with any other device, or at least benignly with
something
> > friendly. I'm also going to be going with at least 2 gig of D
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Re: The Grammys Suck [message #61120 is a reply to message #61118] |
Thu, 08 December 2005 12:58 |
Tom Bruhl
Messages: 1368 Registered: June 2007
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> can't use Bosendorfer samples, etc. while tracking. what's with the
> musicians anyway ;o)?
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> I'm going to run it off the existing IDE drives initially, but I'll likely
> get myself a couple or Raptors eventually.
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> Here goes.....AMI bios and all.
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> Deej
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> "Dave(EK Sound)" <audioguy_editout_@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:43934838@linux...
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>>Hi DJ,
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>>The machine I just built for Nuendo is an A8V Deluxe with an
>>Athlon 64 X2 4800 and 2 gigs of Kingston RAM. I'm liking it
>>so far, but I haven't taxed it yet, so I'm not sure where
>>the break point is. I did a simple test recording 24 tracks
>>at 44.1/24, played those back and recorded 24 more, played
>>all that back and punched in and out repeatedly on the last
>>24. The CPU indicator in Nuendo didn't get past ONE light.
>> Then I added a bunch of native and UA plus to the tracks
>>(at least 30 plugs, most of them different). I played back
>>the 48 tracks and punched in and out of 24 tracks with the
>>plugs running. The CPU indicator never got past 4 bars.
>>Oh, and I'm only running XP home (not 64), and standard IDE
>>drives! :-)
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>>David.
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>>DJ wrote:
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>>>Wife definitely wants to abandon Mac and switch to Windows. I may fix it
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> up,
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>>>hang an MBox or an 001 off of it and advertize that I have Pro Tools
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> here
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>>>;o}
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>>>My current native audio system is running an AMD XP3000 CPU on a 333MHZ
>>>system bus with 2 x gigs of RAM. Considering the fact that it will be at
>>>least twice (if not more) s fast as her G4 466 Mac, this will be more
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> than
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>>>enough for her current needs with Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker,
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> etc.
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>>>Since I keep my computers set up on open SenFu test benches in a machine
>>>room, what I'm going to do is buy a good, quiet case, PSU, video card,
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> audio
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>>>card, CD/DVD player/burner, floppy and a big storage drive for her,
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> install
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>>>the current system drive, mobo and aforementioned componentry into that,
>>>reformat the drive, reload Win XP (so that she's not running the
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> *tweaked to
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>>>hell* system I'm running now) and buy her the Adobe software that she
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> needs
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>>>to be productive.
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>>>Next, I'm going to build another native system. I'm going to need a
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Re: The Grammys Suck [message #61164 is a reply to message #61116] |
Fri, 09 December 2005 11:18 |
Gary Flanigan
Messages: 181 Registered: June 2006
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>We were in the middle of a nor'easter, and foolish me had to be working on
the latest project when BAM! There was this explosion, I mean BOOM. And
the power goes out. My monitors are like: "thud", and my synth screens are
blanking out. I practically dove at the wall to pull the power. Felt like
Kirk under attack from the Klingons. My cell phone was plugged into its
charger. Afterwards,it turned on, but the LCD screen was a blank. I figured
the studio was too. Man, I couldn't take it. I just konked out on the bed.
Big freakin' fortunately, when the power came back, so did the ge
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