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Kassen · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:40 am Post subject:

But you have a Intel-based Mac, right? Then you could also install XP on it (which is highly configurable and can be optimised for audio performance) or you could get Linux (which can work with a realtime kernel. You could even multi-boot beteen Linux (for experimental audio stuff and internet) and XP (for traditional DAW stuff). Just because you bought a Mac doesn't mean you have to be stuck on OSX.

I quickly Google but can't quickly find those graphs anymore and now I need to run out because I need to get some stuff before shops close. Will try again later because it was funny.

Jyoti · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:43 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:16 am Post subject:

The Emagic AMT + Logic 8 typically provides very decent performance and on a very busy day / busy tune you can expect something like jitter in the 9 - 30 samples range, but say a stable average of 1ms should basically be it.

That being said, please remember back to the wonderfully dysfunctional 80s when you would discover that some devices would have nice outgoing midi performance but incoming events would suffer greatly. Or the other way around.. or something just as silly.

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:25 am Post subject:

Midi itself on a protocol level is kinda dysfunctional. It is quite possible to embed midi events into TCP/ip packets or whatever and use way faster pipes than the standard serial MIDI bus, but eventually the midi packets will have to be returned to plain midi. I´d like to see the whole midi thingie to go ethernet CAT 5.

Kassen · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:59 am Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

Here's one page on aliasing between various systems, I thought there was another one with better graphs but can't find it anymore.

http://www.simonv.com/tutorials/quality.php

Jyoti · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:48 am Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:05 am Post subject:

Erm.... yeah, that's roughly what it's like... Unless Apple got such emails already since those tests were all over the net and maybe implemented proper re-sampling. It's not like aliasing-free re-sampling is rocket-science; there is a well known algorithm that'll take care of it called sinx/x.

Of course re-sampling isn't all there is to DAW's... there are probably few people that use Renoise for the re-sampling and I don't think many moved away from Logic because of these tests either, there are more important factors..... like them being very different kinds of tools.