Honestly, if you are thinking of something like that, get a cheap,
stripped down Windows XP machine with 2 gigs of Ram, a big hard drive,
and the fastest processor you can get. Also, get a good sound card, like
an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 which has ASIO support. I love Macs, but it
seems like such a waste of a good mac to serve another mac ;-)
You'd connect them via Midi. You'd run like GPO or whatever you are
going to be running on it, and patch the output into you mixer or
wherever it is going. Simple.
I have a Athlon computer running GPO (with the above sound card) that is
slaved via Midi to my Mac. The output is mixed with various sound
modules, and recorded on the Mac. It's great. GPO can really flesh out
an orchestration.
ER @ HOME wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm curious as to whether anyone has experimented with using one of
the new Intel based Mac Minis as a glorified software sample playback
module, a la the Muse Receptor? I'm on an iMac G5 and was wondering if
I purchased an new Mac Mini (which I would devote exclusively to
sample playback) if this little network-of-sorts could work? It would
take all the computational heavy lifting for sample playback off the
iMac and place it on a processor that seems to be cut out for that
sort of activity.
-Would I need a separate monitor for the Mac Mini or could I somehow
use get into the MacMini from the built in monitor of the iMac?
-How would I send MIDI data from Finale to the Mac Mini...I've heard
about MIDIOverLan...?
Any constructive thoughts would be welcomed.
Blessings,
Eric Richards
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