{"id":77,"date":"2009-04-20T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T22:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2016-04-27T18:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T08:02:44","slug":"farmhouse-studio-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Farmhouse Studio Renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been in working with Mark McDuff renovating Farmhouse Studio. New furniture, new wiring, new Digi Icon D-Command Control surface plus a new lick of paint on the floor. It’s looking great! www.markmcduff.com<\/a><\/p>\n

This week saw us purchase a new Inte I7 Nehlam 2.6ghz Computer.\u00c2\u00a0 This was due to Mark purchasing East West’s Composer Collection.\u00c2\u00a0 Now the background with this has been, for years Gigasampler was the primary source for orchestral sounds for the projects we did.\u00c2\u00a0 With Tascam now discontinuing support for Giga, and Vienna Symphonic Library require a lot of $$$ to update to the new Vienna system, the choice to change over to East West’s Orchestra was made.\u00c2\u00a0 We would still use the VSL on the Giga computer as a supplement.<\/p>\n

Now all of this was supposed to work fine on Mark’s dual-quad core Mac Pro with 16gig of memory.\u00c2\u00a0 However the problem with apple marketing lends you to believe that 10.5 is a 64bit operating system allowing you to use 16gig of memory in a program.\u00c2\u00a0 It is actually true, however one problem is that Logic IS NOT natively a 64bit programme, hence you cannot use more than about 3.9gig of memory.\u00c2\u00a0 Logic alone takes up approx 1.9gig of memory, not leaving a\\lot of the 3.9gig left for samples.<\/p>\n

Enter Plogue Bidule.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a fantastic program that can be rewired into Logic.\u00c2\u00a0 This allows you to use another set of 3.9gig on top of the 3.9 gig in Logic.\u00c2\u00a0 Not too bad.\u00c2\u00a0 However some problems when changing Logic sessions with rewire crashing, and some performance issues with Play (East West’s sample playback engine) led us to go back to our original concept of running separate computers to generate different sounds.\u00c2\u00a0 The holy grail of one computer, one programme, producing all sounds is still a far off dream it seems.\u00c2\u00a0 At least until the migration to full 64bit systems and 3rd party software are realised.<\/p>\n

Next twist, Play is a 64bit native application.\u00c2\u00a0 Yay! However it is only truly 64bit on a Windows system.\u00c2\u00a0 The OS X version will allow you to load plugins into ram above 3.9gig, but not utilise streaming instruments, which is where all the power actually lies.\u00c2\u00a0 So you cannot load a Steinway piano into ram (52gig!).\u00c2\u00a0 Ok, Intel release I7 processor which is amazing by all accounts so we decided to go with it.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition to the blazing processor speed, memory bandwidth is far superior by utilising DDR-3 memory in a triple channel configuration.\u00c2\u00a0 This means you need to load ram in groups of 3 to fully utilitise the memory bandwidth.\u00c2\u00a0 I chose the Asus board which has 6 slots, all filled with 1600mhz 2gig sticks for a total of 12gig.\u00c2\u00a0 This is all running on Vista Business 64bit<\/p>\n

Now, Plogue Bidule can run native 64bit so SHOULD be able to use Play natively addressing all the 12gig that we put into the I7.\u00c2\u00a0 However, we had no end of problems with Play in Plogue Bidule on Vista x64.\u00c2\u00a0 As soon as I wired the outputs of play to the asio sound card it would crash.\u00c2\u00a0 Other 64bit (x64) VST instruments would load and play fine.\u00c2\u00a0 The graphic of Play also seemed to be a little corrupted, but this could also be related to how it was playing.\u00c2\u00a0 This was through a different sound card.\u00c2\u00a0 Utter despair!<\/p>\n

Well, Play is 64bit native on the PC so we could at least load up to 16 instruments in one play performance.\u00c2\u00a0 So all was not lost.\u00c2\u00a0 However, the way Play standalone works to “save your setup” is archaeic.\u00c2\u00a0 It is literally crap, so it was quickly becoming a non-event.\u00c2\u00a0 I think there was even mention of going back to Vista 32 to get something that would work by this stage…<\/p>\n

more to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been in working with Mark McDuff renovating Farmhouse Studio. New furniture, new wiring, new Digi Icon D-Command Control surface plus a new lick of paint on the floor. It’s looking great! www.markmcduff.com This week saw us purchase a new Inte I7 Nehlam 2.6ghz Computer.\u00c2\u00a0 This was due to Mark purchasing East West’s Composer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-commentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}