[Dream] DSP vs CPU (Was Timestretch)

[Doofus McFluoro]

Having had my taking the piss session again and feeling a bit better for it
(hard day... the bastards gave me the job... No more sittin at the desk
expanding my set...back to the fkin grind)... I feel I should point out is
that hardware (non PC) is not that expandable... sometimes a bit... usualy
never... and never as much as a PC (mac blah...).

Try running a Psy set with just a sampler and you will see what I mean. I
ran my set on a centrino based lappy last weekend and it sucked.  Had to
unload loads of stuff I wanted to use. Now if it had at least 2 Gig it would
have been fine.

Someone mentioned that using a h/w sampler for a long sample might be a
problem.  My A4000 would take max (either) 4 or 8 meg.... if I remember
correctly. I may be wrong on that... I only had it a few months before it
was chawed. While I am sure that more recent kit will have higher
capabilities... I doubt if it compares. How many HD's can you stack in your
sampler.  And at the end of the day do you really want to be buying seperate
RAM modules for all your kit?

This reminds me of IBM's mistake when they gave away the specs for the PC.
"It'l never fly' they said while backing those big ol dinosaurs.
What Undertow is saying is true...  'For how long?'.... Total integration is
the way forward. The Virus is great as a midi controller as well as a
dedicated synth but... Soon I wont be buying a HW Virus because Access will
be supplying the virus only as software. Knowing that the days of
maintaining a sonic advantage by running DSP's in a dedicated machine are
long gone. Perhaps they already are. The fact is that high end machines
could easily do what a virus does but access have a unique (and prestigous)
enough product to sell enough HW units regardless. This will change... is
already changing.  Korg are already jumping in there.

I foresee a  time not long in the future when we can go to our gig with our
kit in our pocket. We will play our sets with virtual holographic keyboards
riged up to processor stacks the size of a cigarette box (god no smaller or
i will lose it at a gig)

Things we couldnt imagine possible have happened in the last 10 years...
remember when analogue synths had to be butchered before you could rig them
up with your kentons? Now we have analogue modeing synths as software
only... Imagine 10 years from now. Total integration... total portability.
Its happening... wireless internet... microtechnology... nano-tech guys...

Shame that according to leading scientists we will all be drooling idiots by
then...

Doof :)-""

Man that was a good spliff



On 2/22/07, Doofus McFluoro <doofus.mcfluoro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OMG!! Alistair CAPS LOCKED!!!!!! This has forced me the exclamait!!!!!!!
> (If thats really a word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
>
> On 2/21/07, UnderTow <undertow at trance.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, andrei.henry at utoronto.ca wrote:
> >
> > >> The new Intel chips (and even the Opteron chips) pack
> > >> alot more punch than an Accel card.
> > >
> > > absolutely... but the intel or AMD has to manage disk access, memory,
> > OS,
> > > video, network, and all the programs running (forground and
> > background) as
> > > well as your sound app.
> >
> > I'm not making myself clear: Those chips pack alot more punch RUNNING
> > AUDIO above and beyond all the OS related tasks compared to an Accel
> > card.
> >
> > UnderTow
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