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Connecting Multiple Computers
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mubali
Mubali
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Posted : Jun 17, 2004 03:09
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I have a desktop and a laptop (both PC) and I would like to connect them together so that one can be midisync'd to the other. I would like to be able to use the combined processer power to run two separate things at once. Can this be done? How?
I am using Logic Audio Platinum 5.5.1
Basically the whole premise behind what I want to do is to have the power to run some of the more cpu intensive synths. I know that I could just bounce the audio from each synth on one computer, but I also have grand designs of being able to use some of the native synths in Orion Platinum while midi sync'd to the other computer running Logic.
Also, if anyone can suggest other uses of linking my computers together, please let me know...
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orange
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Posted : Jun 17, 2004 08:47
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if you have midi i/o in both of them you can make in logic the one to be master and the other slave and they will be synced but you will have to record the ones output as audio to the other this is one way.
other option is to stop working with logic on pcs and use cubase sx2 and the vst stack utillitie that can automaticali make 2 difefferent computers with sx2 act as 1 !!
canthink of anything else..
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medir
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Posted : Jun 17, 2004 11:01
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micromusic
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Posted : Jun 18, 2004 01:38
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saw a program a while ago called midilan or something, i haven't tried it myself though you might want to do a search for it. should be able to do what you want.
alternatively you could just run midi out of one into the other the old fashioned way with cables. |
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Jun 18, 2004 01:53
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"FX teleport" is an interesting plugin that lets you run plug-in FX and VSTis on a remote machine... works over a network. I've heard good reports from other people but the two times I've tried it (once here and once at Ott's) I've been unable to get it working smoothly.
One thing I have used very successfully is VSTack, running on my laptop and being driven via MIDI by my desktop (running SX, although any sequencer would work just as well), with digital audio being piped from the laptop to the desktop for best quality. You need to allow for latency in the machine running VSTack in the main sequencer though, but most sequencers have a parameter called "MIDI offset" or something which you can set once and then forget about.
I'm combining that with a program called MaxiVista which lets me use the laptop screen as a second monitor for my desktop machine, and running digital audio the other way (from the desktop to the laptop) into Spectralab so that I always have a spectrum analyser across the mix, available at the touch of an [Alt-TAB].
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mubali
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Posted : Jun 18, 2004 02:34
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Hmm... interesting... I will lookin into all of these... Maybe the easiest way would be to midi slave one to the other....
Does anyone know how to do that in a Logic environment??
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Trip-
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Posted : Jun 18, 2004 11:47
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I'm positive it's possible.
I don't have 2 computers here to check how it works.
try to concentrate on clicks and ports enviroment setup. First thing you can do is connect something to the MIDI out on the Master Logic.
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orange
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Posted : Jun 19, 2004 13:28
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