Is it better to use a separate dedicated computer for soft synth or just use one box for everything? What are the advantages/disadvantages?
Currently I'm using one PC (P4) that has 1G of RAM and a 2496 for everything. But I have another PC (Athlon 2000+) which has 1.5G (3G max) which I'm not using which could be set up as a soft synth box.
If I wanted to do something like what you describe but with two PCs instead of a Mac and a PC, would that work? Which box would get the 2496, the one with Finale installed or the one being used as a soft synth? Or would I need to get a second 2496? And how exactly do you connect them via MIDI? Thanks.
On 8/11/06, Eric Dannewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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