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how to set up two computers for studio
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piXan
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Posted : Apr 13, 2005 10:45
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hello, i make music with my friend, and we both hace our cpu and souncard. My friend has a pc desktop with a firewire Motu 828MKII
i have a pc laptop with an echo indigo souncard, and an oxygen 8. We want to hook up both computers so we can work on our own but in sync.. what is the best way to do this. some software like vst system link or some more traditional midi sync.. ahh by the waay we use cubase sx 2 and reason.
thanx bros
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Ringo Gringo
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Posted : Apr 13, 2005 12:38
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u must both have a midi interface...
Then hook up the midi out from master (the one setting the tempo ect.) and in to the slave...
Dont know how to set up midi sync. in cubase....
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diskonekt
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Posted : Apr 13, 2005 13:44
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orik
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Posted : Apr 13, 2005 16:51
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thers supposed to be a program for this called
fx teleport... |
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Hayez
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Posted : Apr 13, 2005 21:40
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It's not clear what you actually want to do, that's why the replayes are a bit confused.
do you want to use both computers as one big midi and or audio seq ?
do you want to use one as seq and another as plug-in rack ?
here is a great article that explains it all:
http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_two_heads_better/index.html
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diskonekt
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Posted : Apr 14, 2005 13:49
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Hayez....nice link man  thnx
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Posted : Apr 14, 2005 14:10
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Yeah,really nice link ;-)
As i know some devellopers,yamaha for example,is develloping a new network protocol calld mlan(m=MUSIC) for audio purposes.
It has been already installed to some yamahas recently released products(mixers etc).
I am now using fx teleport for running some of vsts over my network,but i have more than half sec latency.
Thats a problem.
I have played with asio for all buffering settings on my second pc(i am using asus onboard soundcard)but nothing better appeared...
Any suggestions?
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Apr 14, 2005 19:07
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I use two PCs in my setup; it's not the same as yours though as I'm the only person at the controls but it might help to know how someone else runs two PCs together...
I have a desktop (AMD XP2600+, DS2416 soundcard, MOTO Micro Express MIDI) and a laptop (Dothan 1.7GHz, M-Audio FW410); the laptop is set up so that the screen is next to the monitor for the desktop PC. The desktop runs Cubase SX and controls the system; the laptop runs VSTack and is used for synths and reverbs, as well as a second monitor for my main machine and a spectrum analyser. Here's how...
The two machines are networked which allows for file transfer between them, and I run a program called MaxiVista which lets me use the laptop screen as a second monitor for the main machine. I also use Apulsoft Wormhole to pipe audio across the network to the laptop so I can run 2 or 3 different reverbs on the laptop, accessible as sends on SX. Wormhole latency is maybe 10ms which is fine for most reverbs.
There is MIDI from the desktop to the laptop, which is used to control synths in VSTack; there is also a bi-directional S/PDIF connection which is used in one direction to pipe the whole mix into the laptop so that SpectraLab can give me a picture of what's going on, and in the other as a return into SX for the reverbs and synths coming off the laptop (Wormhole allows for bi-directional audio transfer over the network but this doubles the network traffic).
I've got the mousepad buttons on the laptop set up so that with one tap I can cycle between a full-screen, high-definition spectrum analyser, VSTack, and a second monitor for SX.
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