add me...

[mycorn]

sorry-
this turned out really long winded...

so

i'm either brave or stupid

i did my first gig w/sac saturday night

i have found 2 hdsp9652's
but have not found the PCs they are going in

i took my 2 notebooks and my presonus firestudio/ADA8000s
to a gig that has a house rig
[thinking, of coarse, that in the event of a meltdown...]

i'd been fighting with the system the second half of the week
as i thought the perfectly stable 3.0... beta driver should be
upgraded to the official 3.3something release

umfortunatly this requires a firmware flash
that i still havnt figured out how to undo...

naturally the old driver wont work with the new firmware
...but i digress

a few reboots/restarts/holding your best rockstar pose/and breath...
i think i determin the order of hardware/network/IO/software lightup

i get it to run good at the house with 16 channels/dynamics on
and 4 inputs active

stable and flawless [albite firewire]
and +/- 25% cpu loads

sure
why not

of coarse at the gig it takes several attempts
to get it clock-problem free [my main issue i believe]
with the standard snap/pop/ckick appearing randomly
and as audio fades

it's the band i work for most so
that part of the equation was easy

great...
no sound check

i love my job

outside on a big patio deck overlooking a lake
with the afternoon/evening sun making the main laptop [t2300 1.6g]
almost impossible to see
i get musos showing up randomly while i build 5 monitor mixes

i did check routing and sundry things i thought of looking at
in the monitor sends and patched eq's etc. at the house
but i never really built any mixes

after it's all patched and verified
i get the main vocal/acoustic guy for a few minutes

the EQ and audio engine in SAC are brilliant
the dynamics are solid and predictable
the mixer views are intuitive

my network is fired up and both machiens are happy

connecting the remote [FOH] is fairly fast
but at "idle" waiting for showtime it wont hold the link
for more than a few minutes

this aint good

and the screen had "frozen" a couple of times
on both machiens but audio had never failed

i aint scared...

the show start is a "screem and leap" on powered macky 3ways
with one sub

by the end of the first song it sounds ok
and by the 3rd song i'm zipping around in sac
tweeking little things like i'd been using it for months

all at around 33% cpu

about 30 minutes in< in the middle of a song [naturally] i get a quarter second
of silence and a pop and it resumed

everybody in the band noticed
but i'd warned them i was risking my reputation
on a computer and a 4 pin cable...

other than the video gagging occasionally
and knowing from expierence not to move too fast
with remote adjustments it worked great till it dropped tpc/ip
about 20 seconds befor the end of the last song

so i was brave...

hat's off to you bob-

i knew buying this pre-beta was a good idea

how many copies do i need to sell to get a 32 track SAW license???

mike horn
iemaudio llc

/103db on myspace

[Bob L]

You were brave... I would of course recommend not doing what you did and risking a major crash and burn... you definitely want to build a stable rig which is not so iffy. :)

Bob L

[mycorn]

you'r right of coarse

it was a low pressure gig
and i was dying to see/hear it work

i didn expect the bottleneck feeling with the video
and the network stuff had been rock solid at the house...

i didn really take into account the quadrupled audio input

from the program's [or VST's] point of view
is there much load difference between a channel that's on
with silence from the mic pre
and an actual [loud] mic input?

in other words is the engine working harder
makeing sound than silence...


thnx

[Bob L]

No... as long as an input converter is active and engaged on a channel, it matters not about the audio signal.

But... if you are using processing fx, then there may very well be performance differences between silence and actual signal.

Bob L