EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hiya Ned, 

Well I have 3 computer desks set up in a U. each desk has 3 tiers. 
Stage Left has two 17 inch monitors attached to my Giga PC, mixing
console under it with mouse and keyboard under that.
Stage right are two 15 inch monitors attached to each soft synth PC.
They have Audiophile 24/96 cards so they have midi and audio taken care
of by both PC.
In the middle is my Mac with two 17 inch monitors and space under it for
24 channels of Logic Control... (Like get to it already :-) ) when it is
released.

yes, it can be a pain to find things at time.
I am getting good at keeping it all organised...

Fan noise isnt an issue as I use moderately long cable runs and have all
the PCs in a Compaq 72 unit server rack that my work was throwing out
that sits at the back of the studio. I use quiet PC power supplies
anyway. The only noisy computer is the Mac.
The whole studio runs off an APS UPS that gives me 40 minutes of power
in case of a blackput (Work were going to throw that away too)
It works, it is flexible.
I know what you are getting at with your point but think of it like
having standalone hardware samplers/synths but having them attached to
17 inch monitors.
My biggest gripe with it all is I cannot find a way of launching
multiple instances of Reaktor/softsynths on the one PC.
My PC's can easily run Reaktor, Pro 52, FM7, B4 all at once, but only
one instance of each. I dont want to run them in a program shell (ie
logic as vsti's) but I also dont want to install Reaktor on two PC's and
I am not licensed to do so even if I wanted to. It is a pain. I am
always bouncing to disk or capturing soft synth midi tracks to harddisk.

Logic Mac is still the heart of the studio. I cant trigger anything
without it. Nothing really crashes. Actually... Nothing crashes except I
occassionally get asio timing issues when running lots of waves plugs
but that is common to all methinks.

One wish is a control surface to control my PC softsynths via the Mac. I
am hoping I can do it with Logic Control, if not then maybe a Kenton
device will come and play.

But a shitlaod easier than trying to edit a real DX7, or my 1080. Yes I
know there is sound diver, I have it, I dont use it much... this way
suit my way of working more.
Having to buy multiple U8's and AMT8's was a major expense but as all
the M-Audio cards are multi client now I dont have to have multiple
cards too.
The biggest expense were the PC's but I managed to cut costs by buying
just PCU's, RAM and Cases/Power Supplies. All the other bits were either
bits I had kicking around from previous systems or (in the case of all
the monitors) bits of hardware they were chucking out when my office
went flat panel.

If anyone has 3 x rackmount PC ATX computer cases they want to sell for
a bargain price, let me know. :-)

Basically (getting to the point and yes it has been a slow day) the Mac
does its job of running everything and working, and the PC's do their
jobs of coming when there master calls....

FETCH!... arf arf arf... :-)

James


-----Original Message-----
From: Ned Bouhalassa [mailto:ned@...]
Sent: 21 January 2002 14:55
To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [exs] GIGA support?


Murray,

Thanks for the get-a-PC-as-second-computer advice, 
but I won't.

I was wondering though, how do people who use both 
a Mac and a PC manage their work space? I mean, 
aren't we talking double computer keyboards, 
double mice (oh-oh, now which do I click now?), 
double monitors (that's not hard), double MIDI 
interfaces, double storage hierarchical issues 
(where does that ReCycled drum loop B MIDI file go 
again?), figuring out which computer is master, 
double fan noise, double bugs (!!)...

And then there's the whole issue of how one 
manages to, for eg, compose a piece that use 
strings from the Gigasampler, and a softsynth bass 
line from Absynth on their Mac, both triggered 
from the same Logic sequence, etc. It just seems 
so bloody complicated, no?

Why not just convince the company, in this case 
GigaStudio, to make a Mac version, or simply make 
EXS support the Giga format?

My less-than-3-per-cent-of-the-market 2 cents.

Ned

Murray McDowall wrote:

> BTW many Mac users who want to take advantage of that program get a PC
> built to run it -- you don't need a very expensive box to run it --
just a
> PIII, a good sound card and 256 -512 of RAM. It is pretty cheap and
easy to
> work with compared to an outboard sampler and of course there are a
stack
> of PC only bits of software that you can run on a PC if you have one
and
> keep Logic Mac as your main system.




http://www.nedfx.com

       Ned Bouhalassa

n e d @ n e d f x . c o m




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