they call it GAS brett (gear acquisition syndrome) :wink:

...and i am about to burst.

about the pulsar card - i would honestly consider selling it and getting a soundcard with sufficient ins - external soundcards are getting so damn cheap! besides im a bit of a nazi on signal path - less is best.

ebay it up and see whats around with at least 6 ins....

everyones good down this way - tim goes on tour this week - drew is off to israel soon - im stuck here dribbling shit to you over a forum whilst i wait for my damn keyboard :roll: :wink:

cheers

pete

hmmm dint know man, just getting to finally know my pulsar and I like it... next to 0 latency, 24/96 recording, like all the easy routing available and slowly getting to like the synths ( when I take ny hands off the virus that is) so yeah i dont really wanna get rid of it. i reckon i piss off my behringer mixer and get a decent a/d converter and i will be happy.

gas indeed...

or maybe sell it all and get one of those tolkien ti's :wink: i feel for ya mate seeing your frustration very clearly on this forum... hey has tim and drew gone yet? when is tim due back? ...dribble, dribble 8)

tim left yesterday - i think drew goes in about a month.
wish i could get back for that party on the 28th - sounds like a nice one...
and brett im not angry - just disappointed :wink: :roll:

cheers

pete

Blay, just a wild estimate, how many effects would you hazarad a guess at which could run in realtime (well, let's say 5ms latency, or preferably less [2ms])? I know it's highly subjective, as the load on the CPU varies wildly depending on the complexity of each of the plugins used (with reverbs etc. being very intensive), but say I had a 1.9GHz Pentium-M (Centrino) or a 2.5GHz Pentium4, how many different "channels" of chained-effects could you expect to run, using general plugins such as EQ, compression and/or mult-band compression, distortion effects, tube/valve/tape emulation, chorus, reverbs and delays, etc..?

Currently I have an old 700MHz athlon running Win98se, and have no soundcard with ASIO etc., but that's all about to change soon (I've got my eye on a 1.9GHz Centrino2 laptop, and an Emu 1616M cardbus soundcard with Behringer ADA8000 AD convertor to get the extra eight analogue ins/outs from the ADAT connection), but in the meantime I've absolutely no idea how many plugins I can expect to run in realtime for processing lots of incoming and outgoing audio at the same time.....

I understand it's a "how long is a piece of string" question, but let's take the most extreme example possible... How many Waves' reverbs would you reckon could be run in realtime, using a preset such as Concert Hall, or something, for processing incoming audio channels (up to 16 mono channels - the reason being that I have 16 direct outs and 8 busses on my hardware mixer)?

Thanks!

[quote="Timo"]exactly!
take that length of string, divide it by the number of keys on your controller keyboard and multiply it by the cigarette butts in your ashtray, and woila! ;)

but seriously timo - id hate to even try and guess and then have you disappointed with the actual result.
too many factors to consider - ram/mobo/harddrive/fsb/ just to name a couple...

but i can tell you that my girlfriend used to own a celeron 800/512m pc133/40gig 7200 hd/cheap gigabyte mobo - and generally i could push it out to about 20 to 24 simultaneous stereo tracks, running realtime fx on say half of those tracks, and a waves c4 compressor running realtime over the entire mix. just an example for you to estimate from - im not even going to try and guess what performance your system will give you.
(btw my girlfriends celeron was a piece of shit - really unstable).

cheers

blay