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| Re: hardware suggestions [message #96588 is a reply to message #96587] |
Thu, 06 March 2008 08:13  |
John Macy
Messages: 242
Registered: April 2006
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I forgot Hinson was doing that--Hank Singer raves about how much fun the band
is.
Hope to run into you again sometime--enjoyed that lunch with Leuzinger and
you at Roy Bean's a good while back....
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>Thanks John. However,I've yet to play with 45 rpm. I did do Mike Johnson's
>instrumental CD.He plays steel in that band... Maybe that's what you're
thinking
>of. I need to go see those guys. I think Steve Hinson has been doing the
>guitar thing with them. He's a great authority on vintage country guitar
>(as well as steel gtr and southern rock) My retooling phase keeps getting
>put off as well. That's why I'm starting early. Good luck.
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>"John Macy" <nospamjohn@johnmacy.com> wrote:
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>>Hey Danny,
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>>Nice to see you here (if y'all don't already know, Danny is a monster Nashville
>>guitar player). Are you still doing the 45RPM thing? I gotta come see
>that...
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>>Not much help as I have been trying to do the same thing for a year or
two,
>>but keep getting sidetracked...
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>>Just wanted to say "hey"...
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>>"Danny Parks" <gtrparks@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>>>I'm thinking about moving my Paris to a newer XP system. I rarely visit
>>this
>>>newsgroup 'cause everything works great, I'm just into new hardware every
>>>few years so there's no crashes. What's the CPU/MB of choice lately?
>>> I'm also planning on using the current box as a Ivory/B4/nuendo keyboard
>>>rig if anyone has any input in that. Thanks!
>>
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| Re: hardware suggestions [message #96589 is a reply to message #96578] |
Thu, 06 March 2008 07:34 |
Deej [5]
Messages: 373
Registered: March 2008
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Danny,
Your Paris rig is going to be more flexible on windows ME than any other OS.
This is due to limitations regarding the XP driver and Paris ADAT modules.
If you can live with one ADAT module per MEC, XP will give you lots more VST
plugin options and the ability to utilize more RAM. There is really no other
reason to use XP other than this, IMO, so there's the tradeoff....hardware
flexibility vs the ability to run current plugins and RAM.
I moved away from Paris about this time last year. The mobo/CPU I was using
was the most stable I had ever found for a Paris rig. It was an ASUS A7V8X
with an XP 2800 CPU. A dinosaur by today's standards. I have heard good
reports on the Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra 939 mobo. It's out of production now
and very hard to find. If you do find one, I would recommend using the most
powerful single core socket 939 CPU there is. I believe you can use dual
core CPU's on a Paris machine now with some kind of hack, but I see not
purpose in this since the hack involves disabling one of the cores.
I hope this gives you a little perspective. Others here will surely have
more current solutions for you, if there are any. From a stability
standpoint, the ASUS A7V8X was great and the XP 2800 CPU was plenty powerful
to push a Paris rig. I was running a colorgraphics Xentera quad head AGP
video card with the ASUS board. This is mighty handy with Paris and they are
cheap. I did try mine with my Gigabyte GA-K8NS 939 mobo and it wouldn't
work, but it did work great with the older ASUS product.
As far as using your older rig for a VSTi host, just make sure you've got a
good ASIO soundcard (RME HDSP series is highly recommend here), 2G of RAM
and a powerful enough CPU to operate at the lowest possible latency
settings.
Regards,
Deej
"Danny Parks" <gtrparks@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:47cf656c@linux...
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> I'm thinking about moving my Paris to a newer XP system. I rarely visit
> this
> newsgroup 'cause everything works great, I'm just into new hardware every
> few years so there's no crashes. What's the CPU/MB of choice lately?
> I'm also planning on using the current box as a Ivory/B4/nuendo keyboard
> rig if anyone has any input in that. Thanks!
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