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john o callaghans gear (pg. 2)
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| Nightshift |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aesthetic
stay off the drugs son |
+1 :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: |
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| richg101 |
| quote: | Originally posted by eee.ddd.y
anyone know what he uses??im curious to know because especially in the track "exactly" there is so much going on..he must have needed a bomb of ram..ive given up on tryin to make trance coz it gets so frustrating when the computer maxes out half way through with such thick fat saws..electro is much easier on ram...is there a magical answer how this is done??and not by using freeze track because its impossible to know when u want to filter out sounds and automate before everything is in place and playing at the same time....
i was just wondering.. |
this is the problem. people rely too much on being able to automate a vst synth and want to adjust it time and time again. i bet mr o' c' did things systematically with one sound at a time on a virus. i suppose you dont need to be tweeking and tweeking when you know what you are doing. i expect he can visualise in his head exactly how a filter will sound without all the other element playing. there were tracks being made in 1999 that were made entirely on pentium 2's with 64megs of ram. and they sound just as full and as what producers are doing now. they just had to make do back then. |
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| Rinster |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aesthetic
stay off the drugs son |
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| Massive84 |
He used to post on the boards back in the days. Still got some tracks of him that were on the boards. Nice ones :)
To bad people dissapear once they go a bit famous hehe. |
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| Jason_R |
| quote: | Originally posted by Magnus
This will do you justice. I'm using a quad core CPU, Q6600, and 4GB of RAM in XP using the /3GB switch option, and it can handle ridiculously large project files.
I will say that line, "he must have needed a bomb of ram" cracked me up! :) |
Hi
Just wondering what the 3gb switch option is for windows xp?
Regards |
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| derail |
| quote: | Originally posted by richg101
this is the problem. people rely too much on being able to automate a vst synth and want to adjust it time and time again. |
I used to work like this - leave the whole project open, don't commit to any sounds, always leave sounds open to "just one more little tweak, or maybe I'll work out in a month that the sound won't cut it and try something totally different". It can drag out the process heaps.
These days, almost all my sounds come from hardware. And the sounds that come from software, I treat like hardware - find the right sound, work out what I want it to do and commit to it - lock it down, turn it into audio. Sure, I still have the MIDI sequences and brief notes telling me the synth/ patch used, if I want to re-record it. But it's much easier to work it out beforehand, then record it and lock it down. It's like that quote - "measure twice, cut once" - I think it relates to carpentry, housebuilding, something like that. But it's equally applicable in music. Get a clear idea of what you want to do, then do it and move on to the next task.
I finish tracks much, much more quickly than I used to and they sound much better as well. After a while one learns that there are better, more fundamental ways to spend one's production time than to tweak a little sound for hours only to decide it doesn't really work and scrap it. (But that's probably a necessary and valuable part of the learning process) |
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| eee.ddd.y |
| would you be able to post up the stuff he posted...would be real interesting looking back to see his progression in productions.... |
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| celestial thug |
i double derail. To "bounce" the tracks to audio will save you a lot of system power, and save you a load of time in production.
The only synths i keep "open" at the end of the production of a track is the bassline. Due to my genre its important to be able to make changes on the fly. I altso keep the main leads open to manipulate filters, and for "live" performances, but everything else is bounced to audio. The only resource doing this will "eat up" is your harddrive. having 20 audiotracks each worth a good 150megs (and often more, if i go 48 or 96) soon takes its toll. |
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| Ray_Chappell |
| quote: | Originally posted by derail
I used to work like this - leave the whole project open, don't commit to any sounds, always leave sounds open to "just one more little tweak, or maybe I'll work out in a month that the sound won't cut it and try something totally different". It can drag out the process heaps. |
Good point. I kind of needed to hear this... been jacking around with the same song for God knows how long because I'm not committing to anything. Then a tweak here, a tweak there, and "Oh, I learned this cool thing... how will I include that." About 3 weeks ago I tossed the whole song, after all that, and started over. Running in circles... I'm going to commit to some sounds. This post is helpful. |
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| Rinster |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
I'm working on getting my computers into a network, or atleast sync them.
One of the computers will be used for file storage and samples, and if possible VST's, connected on an external, as well as potentially midi interface to hardware (as I only have 2 or three possible midi connections right now. If things go ahead, I'll also be running a 2.2ghz system and a 2.4ghz t7700 and t7500 processor dual core). Both them will be sigmatec audigy's I think plus an outboard extigy.. .. however i have no idea how the funds will work out.. two laptops is a little bit of madness but I'd like to use one for melodies, and the other for ryhtm. I'll have a edrum set I'm configuring for midi use as well as a mpd pad I'm not sure exactly how I'll do it yet. But I'd like to utilize all three computers into the mix. It is sort of ridiculously expensive though (as a hobby for a poorman). Of course the laptops have other uses as well (I quite accidentally put myself into a position to buy two) both are 3GB of ram... so between the two it will be 6GB of ram + 1 GB ram on the storage computer. Of course I'll also have some outboard equipment I'm going to try to get involved an access virus, mc303, keyboard, and a sampler.. but getting it all working, and it all running at the same time may be a stretch. Of course there is other stuff. How it likely may end up is that I'll connect everything to my mixer (and run with the 5 channels i have one for each laptop one for the virus, one for the mc303, and one for my turntables and dual cd deck (hooked up to a seperate 2 channel mixer)
all in all though the laptop alone handles most of my uses. One will be toggels and the other will be the drumset, and whatever else i need it for.. I just need to figure out how I'm going to sync it.
This is about callaghans gear though.. I really have no clue, I'm currently basically just using one computer.. I'll be running a lan, and trying to mix audio signals. I need to figure out how I'll be handling minitoring.. Luckily i have two 3.1 surround sound speaker systems.. so technically I may be able to run one for each laptop sync them somehow .. would sdpif work / firewire work? as both are equiped with it.. if I linked them together would there be some way that could be used? I honestly feel like flopping down 4000$ on two laptops is just insane. Although I am hoping that the purchase will last me the life of the three year warranty unless I have a windfall. Of course one of the benifits is having close to 1TB of data storage now between 3 large drives and a few smaller ones. Although 1TB externals can be bought for like 300$ or less now... .. a safer bet may have been to buy a nice workstation and one laptop... but I'm in the situation I'm in for a reason.. there is no way I normally would have bought two laptops.
Anyway long rant...
It should last.. but the "new software" that uses what it has .. seems to constantly occur.. if new more powerful stuff didn't happen then what..
(what I'd really like to see is a sound equivlent of the physics processor engines - as hopefully these will become standard in graphics cards)
none the less I'll hopefully be able to watch TV on the laptop record video, utilize voice commands - and that is the cool part.. both laptops have onboard mics... I'll be using dragon.. so if I give voice commands, they should follow the commands at the same time.. of course noise is an issue, but with a spilter audio cable or using bluetooth with both them interacting with the device.. I can fork commands...
We'll see what happens with it. (I think getting a car might be a more rational choice for some people...)
(I'm hoping that about 2000$ of the laptop funds will be reimbursed so I'll be stuck with about 2000$ for the two.. we'll see)
HERE IS A PICK OF WHAT I HAVE IN MIND - sorta
Multiple potential loopbacks on this.. should be fun.. also I'll likely have an equilizer kicking around on something.. but I'm not sure what yet.... dependson what I'm doing. |
i looked at this again to try and understand. but i really cant.. wtf |
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| Magnus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jason_R
Hi
Just wondering what the 3gb switch option is for windows xp?
Regards |
Windows XP has a limitation where it cannot give a process more than 2GB of RAM. So if you get a massive project going in Cubase or whatever, and start to get near around 1.5GB of RAM used (around 500 is being used by the system for other things) that hits 2GB and XP will either crash or you will get errors and basically all goes to hell. By editing your boot.ini file and adding the /3GB switch, it tells XP to use more than 2GB of RAM for a process.
After using this option, all my problems with large Cubase projects disappeared. So in your boot.ini file, you would enter a line like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB" /fastdetect /3GB
I personally add the USERVA switch so mine is /3GB /USERVA=3072
There is much more info in detail you can read about this switch and what it does HERE |
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