EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>  > > Actually his machines are pretty reasonable, and what he's doing is
>>  > very clever. He has Giga coming up as a screen on the Mac,
>>  with MIDI
>>  > distributed over ethernet. Plus he has the system streamlined for
>>  > efficiency - i.e. it's more than the hardware that he's selling.
>>  >
>

From: "Steve Schow" <steve@...>

>There are other "cluster" arrangements starting to surface and I do think
>this will become more and more common..

Yes. FX Teleport sends audio and MIDI over ethernet, and the people 
using it report great success. If I add more machines I'll almost 
certainly use it - I'm out of mixer inputs as it is!


>  For example, one company I've heard
>of actually has a product that allows you to run VST plugins remotely.  But
>the GUI for the plugin appears in your Mac...even though the DSP processing
>is happening remotely.  It sends some kind of VST info back and forth over
>the network to the other machine.  Again..in theory..neat idea..even more
>streamlined than what this guy is selling...but I have to ask, what about
>network latency, etc...

FX T is supposed to be manageable, but the trick is to put percussion 
on the local machine.

>It will be interesting to see these kinds of ideas come out, and be improved
>upon...but in my mind..I wouldn't run out and buy one of those PC's today
>because of some cool screen shots showing PC windows on a mac desktop and
>supposed midi over the network.

No, you have to see it working.

>For my money, at this time, if I had to network 5 giga PC's together with a
>mac running logic...I would just get a video switchbox and run them all
>through the switchbox and switch my keyboard/mouse/monitor between which
>computer I want to see.  That is more reliable and absolutely performant
>than some crazy custom software that is extremely unknown.

Other people have reported the opposite to be true, although the 
IOGear USB KVM (keyboard video mouse) switcher I have works 
perfectly. Well, occasionally machines  don't see the mouse when  you 
first start up, but after cycling  the KVM's power it comes back on.
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Nick Batzdorf
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