EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril@...>

>What PC do you use for Giga ?

As mainstream a machine as possible: P4 2.4 GHz, 2GB RAM, Windows XP, 
motherboard with Intel chipset. I bought it only for this purpose - 
my first Windows machine - and I plan on adding another one in the 
near future, depending on how things shake out with the G5s (which 
can access 8GB of memory, making the prospect of having it all on a 
single machine theoretically possible).

I'd be happy to give you more details off the list if you're really 
serious about taking the leap of faith.

>  If you have a diagram of your installation, I
>would love it, because I cannot yet figure out how is your setup.

I have a somewhat roundabout system, but this part of it is very 
simple. The Giga machine is simply an external sound module, with the 
eight TDIFs on its soundcard (a Tascam-branded PCI-822) going into 
the same digital mixer my Pro Tools audio interface is in. So I 
monitor the Giga outputs through the mixer, and then bus them into 
Pro Tools when I'm ready to mix. I also have the VSL Orchestral Cube 
in EXS format (on my main Mac), so the library is running on both 
machines.

Oh, and for clocking, I have a MOTU Digital Timepiece feeding word 
clock to the mixer, Superclock to the Pro Tools  system, S/PDIF to 
the Tascam PCI-822...and also ADAT sync to my mobile PowerBook rig, 
which is a MOTU 828 Firewire interface.

>How reliable is Giga on PC ? How many crashes a day or a week ?
>Thanks in advance.

It's 100% reliable. I leave the computer on and loaded, and it never 
crashes. But you have to get the right hardware, or this won't be 
your experience.
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Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434