RE: [gina-users] Mixman studio and Gina
At 09:03 AM 12/23/98 -0800, you wrote: > >With Cool Edit Pro on my Layla, I have been using some Waves Plug-ins that I >understood to be direct-x. Maybe I don't understand. > >Would direct-x drivers on the layla/gina allow more real-time manipulation? yes it does. the hardware 'layla' isn't the thing that needs to be direct x at this stage since the host program for your audio in this case is Cool Edit Pro will operate the Waves Plug in by using direct x as a translator. So CEP needs to be direct x compatiable in this case, not Layla. I use the Waves Native Power Pack I right now with Cubase VST 3.6 and Wavelab 2.02 by Steinberg. Gina is the soundcard doing the audio for these host programs. I haven't used Cool Edit Pro at all, but someday I'll open it up seeing that I got it with Gina almost a year ago. >Does anyone know if Event is planning on writing code for more dsp on the >chip or using the ram sockets? > >Fred Towne >Having Fun With My Music >http://www.peak.org/~townef Well at this point, I find no need for DSP chips in the immediate future of lightspeed computers. The processors will take care of all DSP functions, if we live in an ideal world or so I think anyway. -john pemble
Re: [gina-users] Mixman studio and Gina
> With Cool Edit Pro on my Layla, I have been using some Waves Plug-ins that I > understood to be direct-x. Maybe I don't understand. Well, my understanding is that there are two parts to DirectX. The first part which is used by the audio plugins, which used to be called ActiveMovie, but is now called DirectMedia, is a sound processing system. The other part, which is called DirectSound, is actually a layer on top of the sound card drivers which allows multiple programs to mix audio to a soundcard, and it allows multiple programs to send audio to the same card. As far as I know it doesn't allow sampling to be done. So you can play wave files from more than one app to the same soundcard, but you can use that soundcard for sampling yet. I believe DirectX is microsoft's way of forcing all soundcard manufacturers to do extra work to provide drivers for their hardware. Both a good and a bad thing. The idea behind DirectSound is it is supposed to be a faster way to send sound to a DirectX capable sound card with less latency. It is gaining much wider software support, and Event would be silly to delay too much longer given the market they are missing. I've talked to Event about onboard DSP effects, and I have been given no information about when or if it will be available. -Neal -- + Neal Sanche ++ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] +-- ICQ 5516171 --+ Information is the inverse of entropy.
RE: [gina-users] Mixman studio and Gina
With Cool Edit Pro on my Layla, I have been using some Waves Plug-ins that I understood to be direct-x. Maybe I don't understand. Would direct-x drivers on the layla/gina allow more real-time manipulation? Does anyone know if Event is planning on writing code for more dsp on the chip or using the ram sockets? Fred Towne Having Fun With My Music http://www.peak.org/~townef
Re: [gina-users] Mixman studio and Gina
> > I tried to run Mixman Studio and got an error message about drivers. The > mixman website says there is "no DirectX driver support at this time" for > the Gina card. I understood that the Gina card did indeed use DirectX > drivers, so presumably this incompatibility would be something Mixman would > have to fix? No, there are no DirectX drivers for GINA/DARLA/LAYLA yet. I would hope they would be released soon, but Event has been quite slow with their driver support in the past. -Neal -- + Neal Sanche ++ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] +-- ICQ 5516171 --+ Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. -- James Huneker
