There is nothing "Emulator" about the Emulator X software. It sounds like ass. It's thin and plastic sounding, and the absolute the most coldest sounding soft sampler out there. So having one of these Dell's with one of these crazy processors and gobs of ram doesn't even matter if the application sucks and sounds poor and unauthentic.
I'll put my 8-bit Emulator II+ against any Creative piece of software (Emulator X) in a sound test any day. What you'll get is a full analog path of the Emulator II verses some software that specs out like crazy, but really is one nasty sounding software program. I have the software so I know. The old E-MU hardware days are gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDxOhnL7pjs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVpWdxW1K0M&feature=related
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Bruno <brunorc@...> wrote:
2010/12/4 Matt <somatt@gmail.com>
True :-)
> well, it seems that the industry wants us to go all software in the future... but if you have the money for a octacore with 192gb of ram, then why not buy the full timepiece av?
Actually, I keep one 1GB/0.9GHz PC with XP - only to do MIDI things. I
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, D F Tweedie <bienpegaito@...> wrote:
>> Yes ... 64 bit OS on PC means virtually unlimited access to RAM. Dell is selling Windows 7 Octacore Servers with 192 GB of RAM installed. Layered samples, anyone?
can always use any other machine with whatever MIDI interface as a
slave. But I don't use VSTis, only hardware.False. Only 182 MB with Reaper already launched. No eyecandy, no
>> Under XP there is a maximum of 4 GB of RAM available to the system, about 1.2 of which is normally reserved by Windows
fancy-shmancy stuff. XP is bloated out of the box, but can be
optimized to the bone.False, unless they need to address huge memory areas - I can agree in
>> Even running 32 bit programs under 64 bit is a huge improvement
case of VSTi samplers, though. And usually they run as separate
processes anyway, so they have ther 4GBs.
Not everything a company says about their products is true. And the
example with samplers/sound modules just shows the case very well. Our
new product is better mostly because we want to sell it. The truth is,
that people tend to love obsoleted synths, sound modules and
sequencers mostly because they don't crash so often and don9;t force
you to throw pornographic amount of cash to upgrade. And 90% of this
whole 64bit hype remainds me the new, improved Whizzo butter
("containing 10% more or less is absolutely indistinguishable from a
dead crab"). OK, enough ranting, let's go to the merit:
Just wait with your migration to Windows 7 until MOTU ships their new
Timepiece to the sellers :-)
Regards, Bruno