Re: Thinking of dumping PT HD and going with Symphony 64 PCI-e and two 8-cores...

Thanks for the observations, Erik. Personally, I'm in the habit of  
doing a fair amount of track freezing, so that might help.

It's going to be a tough decision to make, but I'm getting a real  
urge to simplify things.

Lee

On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Erik Sojdelius wrote:

>> Lee, good to see you posting. This group is kind of quiet these  
>> days...
>>
>> I'm not going to try to talk you out of it, but i will offer my
>> experience.
>>
>> I just recently sold my PT HD3 accel rig. I'm not looking back.
>>
>> My last album (soul/pop/RnB) was done all the way to mix on a  
>> Logic 8/
>> MacPro 4core/Apogee symphony setup. (Mix on protools + an API  
>> console,
>> westlakes, tons of outboard etc.)
>>
>> I realize my rig can in no way compare with your massive  
>> (impressive!)
>> setup, but I suspect the ONLY issue I had can't be helped even by a
>> double 8core solultion.
>>
>> I loved every second of my project except ONE thing:
>>
>> When I was more or less ready to mix, meaning loads of plugins
>> everywhere, and I suddenly realized I'm missing that extra keyboard
>> part or guitar part, the latency was there.
>>
>> What I mean is; I was not bothered by latency all they way to the end
>> of the project. But still, if you want to have the TDM latency
>> experience with NO compromises it COULD be a problem....
>>
>> And the thing is; while I'm experiencing latency, 3 of my 4 cores are
>> just sitting idle and one is struggling on the red. I suspect I would
>> not be helped with a more powerful computer -
>> It's just the way logic handles it at this point . That might change
>> with snowleopard and a rewrite of both Logic an AU specs, but that
>> might take a while...
>>
>> On the other hand:
>>
>> If you can live with just pressing "low latency mode" in Logic and
>> record away (when your project is getting big..), then you should be
>> fine.
>>
>> Thanks for the links BTW.
>>
>> ATB,
>


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