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hi,
i recently bought a portable setup (icebook500 with emi2|6, mt4 and logic)
and wonder if the exs24 is worth its price for my system? the icebook has a
G3@500 and the bus is at 66mhz. i simply cant reach 3 ptverbs with this
(only 2 and a few other less demanding plugins), otherwise the system works
great. but how will it be with exs24?

i lent my emi2|6 to a friend with a 500G4 and he got no noticeable latency
playing an exs24 piano (when emi's ASIO was in the fastest setting 6ms, but
i get hiccups at that. not under the other two). but then again he only
tried one instrument at a time (and he has a G4)

any ibook experience here? how many exs24 should i be able to simultaneously
play?
i have the akai advanced orchestra in akai, and plan to buy a firewire HD
for storing audio files and the exs24 samples. will it be better to have
disk streaming than ram streaming with an icebook?

last one. is logic 5 'slower' than 4.8.1? i dont know whether i should
upgrade
thanx, greetings from Mallorca

hola,

On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 04:37  AM, j enrique gc wrote:

> hi,
> i recently bought a portable setup (icebook500 with emi2|6, mt4 and 
> logic)
> and wonder if the exs24 is worth its price for my system? the icebook 
> has a
> G3@500 and the bus is at 66mhz. i simply cant reach 3 ptverbs with this
> (only 2 and a few other less demanding plugins), otherwise the system 
> works
> great. but how will it be with exs24?

  in my case i've only tested with a -10 instrument (ie not microphones, 
but synths and stuff alike), if your song session has a lot of 
instruments and/or plug-in's you may run into performance problems, in 
my case i do try to be thrifty with  the sounds/pre-set/plug-in's i use 
per song. we have 384MB of Ram, lamp 4.8.1, emi 2 6, mt4 and the virtual 
memory extension of the exs24, that single little thing makes a huge 
difference.

regards.

vico
sonido mambo
mexico



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gracias for your input vico.
what computer do you have?
you mean the exs24's VMS frees cpu, when you say "that litlle thing makes
all of a difference??

BTW, Admins: i haven't received my own original message

-----Mensaje original-----
De: vico guti\ufffdrrez [mailto:vico@...]
Enviado el: mi\ufffdrcoles, 20 de marzo de 2002 16:47
Para: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
Asunto: Re: [exs] exs24 worth with an icebook?


hola,

On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 04:37  AM, j enrique gc wrote:

> hi,
> i recently bought a portable setup (icebook500 with emi2|6, mt4 and
> logic)
> and wonder if the exs24 is worth its price for my system? the icebook
> has a
> G3@500 and the bus is at 66mhz. i simply cant reach 3 ptverbs with this
> (only 2 and a few other less demanding plugins), otherwise the system
> works
> great. but how will it be with exs24?

  in my case i've only tested with a -10 instrument (ie not microphones,
but synths and stuff alike), if your song session has a lot of
instruments and/or plug-in's you may run into performance problems, in
my case i do try to be thrifty with  the sounds/pre-set/plug-in's i use
per song. we have 384MB of Ram, lamp 4.8.1, emi 2 6, mt4 and the virtual
memory extension of the exs24, that single little thing makes a huge
difference.

regards.

vico
sonido mambo
mexico



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On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 10:20  AM, j enrique gc wrote:

> gracias for your input vico.
> what computer do you have?

white 2001 ibook, with 320MB RAM, 500MHz cpu, 10GB hard disk.

> you mean the exs24's VMS frees cpu, when you say "that litlle thing 
> makes
> all of a difference??

it's an extension emagic recently released, it manages virtual memory 
for the exs24, you can have larger than ram instruments (their 
collection of samples, of course).

another thing to check is the conversion quality setting, most of the 
time you can get away with normal instead of the best setting, i only 
use the best setting when at the end of the project i bounce the 
instruments to audio tracks.

saludos.

vico
sonido mambo
mexico


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