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