the wonders of hardware coupled with a computer, mixers, dual moniters...

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ScienceOne said:
You could have separate computers running different cpu-taxing programs, which are common in audio or video production. You could also have one of your computers with a 240 gig harddrive and the other with the latest high-speed processor, that way one computer deals with storing files, and the other deals with processing/programs/etc. It's just so kickass, but of course, expensive to have multiple computers.
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Yes that exists but you will not find any DAW apps that support that. High end graphics programs like 3D Studio MAX and Alias Wavefront support network rendering but also cost upwards of $3000...

I would not attempt remote storage over a netowork especially when doing DAW work. Most network cards run at either 10 or 100Mbits/sec. That is still slower than say Firewire and not suitable for realtime recording/streaming. Of course there are Gigabit netcards, but I doubt they would be considered affordable for home use.
 
After reading your post, ScienceOne, I really want one of the new WD 200 gig 7200RPM drives with the 8mb cache...
 
Lemme throw a thought in here...

Lemme throw a thought in here...

With a PCI card, your A/D converters are probably inside a noisy (EMF-wise) computer case. With a firewire breakout box, it is not. Using an external box via firewire should provide a quieter signal.

-ElSilva
 
hmm

yea thats true, accept that the delta 1010s converters are outside as well.
 
In regards to the 2 computer setup there would be advantages if you wanted to run softsynths on a seperate box but there really isn't anything you could do with a network. There wouldn't be any advantage to streaming the audio over a network and it would tie up the host computer with the transfer.

You would just run them as two independent machines and use midi to sync them if neccessary.
 
You can connect two computers through a firewire connection! Thats why i was saying get a PCI soundcard and use the firewire to connect the two computers. I just did it yesterday with a DJ friend of mine, we were attempting to put his Reason songs into Cubase on my computer, but we were having rewire problems (not related to our firewire connection).
Please god, anybody have a Rewire2 fix between Reason and Cubase vst/32? The fix included with Reason didn't help me.
 
ScienceOne said:
You can connect two computers through a firewire connection! Thats why i was saying get a PCI soundcard and use the firewire to connect the two computers. I just did it yesterday with a DJ friend of mine, we were attempting to put his Reason songs into Cubase on my computer, but we were having rewire problems (not related to our firewire connection).
Please god, anybody have a Rewire2 fix between Reason and Cubase vst/32? The fix included with Reason didn't help me.
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Why not just transfer the .wav file over to the other computer?
 
see, thats the thing. we had these damn rewire problems. after trying to load cubase to the computer with reason, reason wouldnt even open cause rewire problems.... i dont know what to do, cause i bought reason for my computer, but i must have cubase.
 
reinstall

Sounds like Cubase's install might have overwritten an important file that Rewire needed. I'd suggest reinstalling Rewire right over itself, or else uninstall and reinstall it. If then Cubase fails, then those two programs are probably each installing a different version of a required file with the same name in a shared location.

That's probably pretty unlikely though. Try the reinstall first and see what happens. Worst case scenario would be to have to make the machine dual boot, one to run Rewire and the other Cubase.

-ElSilva
 
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