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That's great news. What's the street price on your hardware? TravisH On 1/5/06, Kris Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote: > >>> Travis Hartnett wrote: > >>>> If anyone out > >>>> there is doing all their signal processing and looping on a laptop, > >>>> I'd love to hear the specs of what they're using > > I can do it without bogging down my processor too much, but it still >isn't > stable enough for me to go live given my effect requirements. I can run >my > VST host (EnergyXT) with various VST effects (reverb, chorus, delay, and > some tone mangling stuff) and Mobius as a VST. It works most of the time, > but occasionally the systems crashes if I try some really wild stuff, > looping while shifting between various complex VST effects and patches, >etc. > However, my effect requirements are intense (using VST programs like >Antares > Filter, PSP84), and I don't think this is a processor or notebook issue >(my > processor usage is still moderate in this context), but a contention >issue > between the software. I'm running a Compaq Presario 2525US, Pentium 4, >2.4 > Ghz, 500MG of RAM. It could be a cache issue, however > > If I were looping with the above, minus the effects gymnastics...meaning, > I'm just using reverb, chorus, and delay, with Mobius...then, yes, no > problem, I would perform with nothing but my laptop. I'd plug my acoustic > guitar straight into my soundcard, and go directly out into my mixer >board. > > Now, I'll try my souped up system on the new laptop I get later in the >year, > on one of the new Intel dual core notebooks, which also have a dual cache > setup. I've seen the specs and the performance benchmark comparisons on >the > processors, in the context of gaming and music applications, and how >they > deal with the severe strain of more than one application trying to >perform > their tasks, and they kick butt. My wife is convinced I'll be able to do > what I want with these new notebooks. >