Jikkenteki Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 To quote the title of a Rush track, I had "One Little Victory" today in my studio. Nothing terribly groundbreaking or anything, but I'm excited and feel like talking about why! For about 3 years now I have been wanting to "someday" try Cubase's system link to link my desktop and one of my laptops together. Well last night a new sound card arrived, which was the final piece of the very long puzzle involved in getting everything I needed to link these bad boys together. The routing of the mixer's in the E-Mu sound cards was a bit tricky (damn flexiblity and being able to do anything you want... why does it have to be so confusing sometimes?) but today I finally got it all worked out and working. Now I have 8 ADAT channels running between my computers, as well as midi channels so I can write the midi parts on one computer and have them control some of the heavier VSTs on the other. I can also finally have my T.C. Electronic effects units hooked up by S/PDIF rather than the old noisy analog connection and have a bunch of CPU hogging vst reverbs all handled by one machine and not have my computer coughing and stuttering anymore! So many ideas... which to try first??? Quote
Reznik Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 haha this is some great thing whoa! letting one machine handle the heavy vst... then you can go play Quote
Jikkenteki Posted September 28, 2006 Author Posted September 28, 2006 Yeah things like this tend to be handy especially when I go writing these 30 minute long tracks. I need all the processing help I can get. Quote
Reznik Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 does this work with other hosts aswell? someone know? never thought about it, cause there was no urgent need Quote
Jikkenteki Posted September 28, 2006 Author Posted September 28, 2006 I'm using Steinberg's System Link so it will only work with Cubase, although I'm not sure aobut rewiring another host to Cubase. There are some other options for connecting computers though. Wormhole is a decent cheap method for doing audio that way. Quote
Lost Buddha Posted September 28, 2006 Posted September 28, 2006 hi jikk. first of all congrats in your great discovery. if one of your big problems is VST procession , i advise u to give a look at this. TC Electronics - PowerCore good productions! Quote
Jikkenteki Posted September 28, 2006 Author Posted September 28, 2006 hi jikk. first of all congrats in your great discovery. if one of your big problems is VST procession , i advise u to give a look at this. TC Electronics - PowerCore good productions! 610563[/snapback] I'm well aware of the Powercore, my partner in PAR-2 has one. I don't really trust firewire on windows and while everyone I have talked who has one says good things about it, they also often mention that it is occassionally unstable. That said, the bigger issue is that I need to buy new monitors and some other things before I'd have money for a powercore. Plus to be completely honest, I have more than enough gear at the moment. lol Quote
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