Re: My Thanksgiving Vacation Project: Building a new looping computer w/Core 2 Duo

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

> On 23 nov 2006, at 13.11, Krispen Hartung wrote:
>
>> What sort of effects or stacks of effects are you proposing would  take 
>> 100% of your CPU power, Per?
>
> I gave one example on the last post. Typically the effect patches you 
> find in a FireworX or Eclipse.

I missed that. Sorry.  I'm inclined to think that a combination of Reaktor 
ensembles, MAX/MSP patches, and other high quality VSTs can work together 
to 
do what a FireworX or Eclipse can do in principle (though wiht not the 
exact 
propietary sound), with 50% CPU utilization or less (in fact, I think I'm 
doing it now)....of course, they won't produce that "it" factor that an 
Eclipse makes that allows everyone to identify it in someone's overall 
sound.  This is why some folks go to software and MAX/MSP, because they 
want 
to be in in control of their sound and develop their own unique effect 
personality.  I got rid of my FireworX because I thought it was limited. I 
can stack and combine many more effects in my PC VST system....but I don't 
doubt that there are FireworX patches that you can't emulate right now 
with 
your PC system, for whatever reasons.

> As soon as I get rich I will buy a faster laptop - hopefully a Four  
>Core 
> or a Double Duo... thingy  ;-)

Four core would be screamin'. I'd buy that. But I just wish some music 
software companies would start writing their apps to take advantage of the 
entire duo core design. There are default benefits of having the duo core 
system that do not require the app to be updated (just in the way the 
cores 
operate, they run more efficiently  with a single app than a single core), 
but if the apps were updated, you'd see improvement. We had this 
discussion 
on the MAX/MSP discussion group.

Kris