Intel Mac for Sequencer, Intel PC for VI's and VST's?

[CWoodONe]

Anyone using DP as their main "Host" but connecting in an Intel PC to be able to use VI's and plugs only available on that platform? How are you connected? How is it working for you?

Thanks

[Qucifer]

I'm actually using a Windows system to run dfh Superior until they release their Universal Binary version.

dfh Superior is a drum module. When I'm writing, I connect out my MIDI Express XT to a Fastlane on the Windows machine... dfh Superior just looks like a MIDI drum module. Audio returns via SPDIF to an input on my interface. I'm using Ableton Live as my host on Windows.

dfh Superior supports an offline rendering process that is significantly higher quality than its realtime performance. When I'm ready to do the offline render, I just export the MIDI drum track from DP and fly it into Ableton on the Windows box. From there, I just go through the normal dfh bounce process. When that's done, I bring the audio files back over to the Mac.

It'll be a lot easier when I can just run dfh Superior on the Mac. But, this method works pretty darn well in the meantime.

I used to do the same thing with Gigasampler back when I ran DP 2.x/3.x on OS9. Worked great that way, too.

Obviously you want to make sure the latency across the chain (both MIDI and audio) is pretty low on both systems.

[CWoodONe]

I'm actually using a Windows system to run dfh Superior until they release their Universal Binary version.

dfh Superior is a drum module. When I'm writing, I connect out my MIDI Express XT to a Fastlane on the Windows machine... dfh Superior just looks like a MIDI drum module. Audio returns via SPDIF to an input on my interface. I'm using Ableton Live as my host on Windows.

dfh Superior supports an offline rendering process that is significantly higher quality than its realtime performance. When I'm ready to do the offline render, I just export the MIDI drum track from DP and fly it into Ableton on the Windows box. From there, I just go through the normal dfh bounce process. When that's done, I bring the audio files back over to the Mac.

It'll be a lot easier when I can just run dfh Superior on the Mac. But, this method works pretty darn well in the meantime.

I used to do the same thing with Gigasampler back when I ran DP 2.x/3.x on OS9. Worked great that way, too.

Obviously you want to make sure the latency across the chain (both MIDI and audio) is pretty low on both systems.

Thanks, I'm wondering if a MIDI over lan approach would have lower latency?

[emulatorloo]

Anyone using DP as their main "Host" but connecting in an Intel PC to be able to use VI's and plugs only available on that platform? How are you connected? How is it working for you?

Thanks

Yes -- I have a pc running giga studio. I am doing it the simple way, like Qucifer - I have had no problems w latency because since all the PC is doing is Giga, I can set the latency really really low.

Mac to MIDI interface . . . . . . MIDI cable to PC MIDI interface.

Audio cable out of PC sound card to mixer.

Then I set up a "Gigastudio" device in Audio MIDI setup that looks like this:

my GS3 device hooked up to output one of my MIDI interface, as well as the properties I set for GS3. Controller hooked up to in and out 8



How it looks in DP:




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