I built a New Computer last night.

software rout

Rout? Was that a Freudian slip, madAhorn?

route?

Sorry Grammar Wombat!

I just noticed that Mac only uses one audio driver...
Hmmm...they do simplify things, don't they?

But at 3 x's the price I am still not ready...

Careful with those extra hard drives m8, I have sometimes found slower speed drives hanging off the system can sometimes drag your super fast main drive down in certain instances.

Can't you run your old PC as well so you can keep the Yamaha going? It sucks to lose it.

Yes I can. I am going to keep it under the same desk.

It would be relegated to just an outboard FX box at that point, however.
I could run some channels in and out of it to use the great reverb if I do not find an equivalent software one, for example.

I sure wish Yamaha would have allowed others to support the DSP 2416 after they let it go.

By the way the dual DSP 2416's with two AX-44 IO boxes cost me $2600.00 a decade ago. The P3 computer that they are in I think was about $5000.00.

My computer investment and software insvestment this week stands at about $1800.00 and rising. Come on tax refund.

I hope this entirely CPU based environment does what it is supposed to do.
It makes me nervous not having those 10 extra Yamaha DSP chips processing along with it.

My P4 Computer is my main internet computer...
The P3 had no more irq's to add any usb even and is Win 98se so cannot go online.

What a computer build...! Raid hard drive array on the bottom.
About 4 more hard drives here and there. Power cords, man!


And the new one...
Huge and largely emty from no DSP Factory! :'-(


Out side of Old Computer:


Man, I wish things never got obsolete!
Of course, I could have used a larger case back then....

Lol nice pics, I think I saw servers with less than that in government offices not so long ago haha.

A lot of investment, looking at your cd burner reminded me that I thought I was flash when I bought one of the first on special order, something like 2/4 speed with SCSI card, it cost me 425UK quids. 1998/9 I think. Now they are $29 and no one wants one lol - that's obsolete for you.

I am on Disk 9 of 12 installing Komplete 7 on the new computer....

This is going to be a late night again!!!

Long night indeed MadAhorn it's already morning here LOL
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Ok...All 12 disks are loaded....now the update program is running for another 1/2 hour of updates... :'-(

Oh well, I noticed that Reflektor comes in the package which sounds like a great answer to my reverb question!
Low CPU usage and Low latency it promises as well.

The demo sounds good!

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/produce...

Nice build, madAhorn. You gotta love those tiny SATA cables compared to those EIDE ribbons. So much easier to build and swap parts when you can get your hand into the case more than a few millimeters

After some strange computer behavior (I think caused by trying to install some non Win 7 Drivers by acccident) things are going along pretty well with my new system.

The 6 core CPU barely breaks a sweat, not does the 8 gigs of DDR3 Ram. I have room for 8 more gigs later if I ever need it.

I have a slightly older program hard drive and a brand new Sata 3 Project drive.
I will soon get another Sata 3 for my programs, because that seems to be working the hardest right now.

I have no glitches at 128 samples running at about 3.4 latency with Kontakt.
I have run several tracks of instruments with no problem so far.

The only problem I have had is with some of the new piano samples.
Some of them will not allow me to play fast repeated notes no matter what the latecy setting. Some piano's are ok as are all of the other samples.

This might be a Kontakt limitation, or maybe I could get the fastest program drive to help...I don't know. The CPU and Memory meters are showing very low usage.
Even the HD meters in Kontakt show very low usage.
The windows meters for HD show a ton of activity for the program drive, but I do not know how to interpret it.

So, almost every thing is perfect.
Awesome Reverbs and FX in the Kontakt libraries!
A ton of instruments that I need!
I do have to add some Pop Brass and Sax libraries, but everything else seems to be represented very well.

By the way, the Fantom G pianos are just as good or better as these sound wise, just not as many velocity layers or Sympathetic Resonance.

The Scarbee EP's and even the stock EP's are AMAZING!


Thanks for listening...more reports to come.

does the 8 gigs of DDR3 Ram

You are playing gigs with rams? They are too temperamental for me, but I have heard they make a great horn section.

Good point....I need to re-think that!

Well I did say that older hard drives hanging off newer faster drives can cause problems, and it seems that is what you are saying here.

If the main drive is spinning data at 20,000 revs, it's just going to be confused trying to sync with files on the 5000 rev drive.

I feel your pain - I don't want it, I need asprin just reading your post