64-bit – a must for professional composers.

[midney]

When? MOTU, when?

Melodyne goes 64-bit in October, a free update…






OS 10.6.4, Mac Pro 2.93 GHz Quad-Core 16GB, DP7.21, VSL, etc.

[kassonica]

When it's ready

[HCMarkus]

Hate to break it to you, but it seems like just few pro composers somehow are able to manage with DP as-is. If huge sample sets are required (remember, not all pro composers are doing orchestral stuff), VE Pro, Bidule and other technologies are being used to great effect.

It is just possible this post is miscategorized... Why? MOTU, why?

[adriano]

Uhm...
So, anything prior to 64-bit is for hobbyist composers?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Hyperbole.

[kassonica]

Uhm...
So, anything prior to 64-bit is for hobbyist composers?

Does that mean Mozart, was a hobbyist composer?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Mozart's brain was 128 bit.

[mhschmieder]

Pianos weren't as big back then, so he didn't need as many bits.

Imagine how his "too many notes" problem would magnify in today's world.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I believe that is a harpsichord (no pedals - not that it would have done him any good with those little feet!) ☺ At best a pianoforte but I'll bet on the harpsichord.

[Shooshie]

Probably a harpsichord, but Mozart often said his favorite instrument was the Clavichord. The clavichord would have had a large lid like that, but it would have been hinged at the back of the instrument. Because the hinge on the instrument in the picture is not at the back, it's probably a harpsichord.

It's easy to see why Amadeus would have loved the clavichord. It's a unique keyboard instrument, and would have sounded more like something we're accustomed to in a synthesizer with aftertouch. He could impart vibrato to the strings, and he could have played it with such a light touch that technique would have felt more like speed-typing (or "touch typing" as typing teachers used to call it), the way the new Mac keyboards feel, as opposed to the old ones with so much travel and resistance in the keys. The slightest touch on a clavichord produced a sound.

Bach: Allemande, Suite in e minor - Clavichord

But that's probably a harpsichord in the picture of little Wolfie.

Shoosh

[twistedtom]

Shoo I think your right. Some harpsichords were short like this one and all the clavichords I have seen have the lid in the back. The first piano was made around 1700 or 59 years before Mozart’s birth. Harpsichords were very popular then.

On a side note; at the Boston Fine Arts Museum there is an musical instrument section, if any of you are ever in Boston the Museum and the instrument collection is a must see.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

The Metropolitan in NYC also has a great collection of keyboards including a Christfori pianoforte (his second I believe). I got to play a few notes on it. In my past life as a piano tuner technician, the museum gave the members of the Piano Technicians Guild a private tour! Way cool. Love those Giraffe pianos. POS but so cool looking.

[htieksppircs]

Hey, I'm happy about Mozart's 128 bit brain, but I'm trying to get some real information here. I've spent a year waiting for t.c. Electronic to update the Powercore drivers, thinking I'll be in 64 bit land when that happens, and now I realize, like a snake that just bit me, that DP 7.2 isn't even 64 bit yet, along with SSL Duende and who knows what else. But MOTU did add very pretty themes to DP

Actually themes are kind of cool, although I may never mess with them. I'd rather see the engineers work on something useful like...64 bit for instance. I need all of my RAM!

Anybody have any inside info into the development of 64 bit DP?

[James Steele]

Anybody have any inside info into the development of 64 bit DP?

If they did, they couldn't share it with you. I guess you'll have to limp along with 32-bit for the time being.

[dave pine]

32 bit is so 2010