txshonk
10-19-2008, 11:37 AM
So I voluntered to run sound for a band I used to play with using SAC. The show was last night. SAC worked great. I loved being able to just walk around with a laptop and mix from anywhere.
Didnt use my Behringer BCF2000s, but when I use the PC rig and I am playing/running sound from stage I will definitely use them. I could see pointing and clicking while playing a live show a bit harder then running the sliders.
Audio performance was rock solid. My machine is an XP machine with 4 gig 800 mHz RAM and a Q6600 processor ran at 2.4 gHz (I usually have it overclocked at 3.2gHz) with an RME HDSP 9652. CPU usage was 60% with 12 ins at 2X64 buffers - and 5 mixes. I was running the Waves Renaisannce reverb on all 5 mixes.
Only SAC comment I have is I sure wish accessing plug ins was a capability through SAC remote. It was a minor inconvienence the few times I hadda mess with my plugs and had to switch to VNC, but being I would keep VNC up to view the RME Total Mix on the Host Machine to make sure none of the INs were clipping as guitar players turn up through the night - I definitely am not going to sweat it.
And any problems werent with SAC - the band has a Presonus Firestudio and Digimax FS in their rack they use to record shows and Ii figured I could easily just ADAT into my RME card. Wrong - I had routing issues running the Firestudio software I had to work through.
Didnt use my Behringer BCF2000s, but when I use the PC rig and I am playing/running sound from stage I will definitely use them. I could see pointing and clicking while playing a live show a bit harder then running the sliders.
Audio performance was rock solid. My machine is an XP machine with 4 gig 800 mHz RAM and a Q6600 processor ran at 2.4 gHz (I usually have it overclocked at 3.2gHz) with an RME HDSP 9652. CPU usage was 60% with 12 ins at 2X64 buffers - and 5 mixes. I was running the Waves Renaisannce reverb on all 5 mixes.
Only SAC comment I have is I sure wish accessing plug ins was a capability through SAC remote. It was a minor inconvienence the few times I hadda mess with my plugs and had to switch to VNC, but being I would keep VNC up to view the RME Total Mix on the Host Machine to make sure none of the INs were clipping as guitar players turn up through the night - I definitely am not going to sweat it.
And any problems werent with SAC - the band has a Presonus Firestudio and Digimax FS in their rack they use to record shows and Ii figured I could easily just ADAT into my RME card. Wrong - I had routing issues running the Firestudio software I had to work through.