D. Gauss Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 ok folks, i can barely solder, but i know a lot of you are real techheads so here's my list for stuff that i wish existed: (maybe it does exist?) -DAW program is able to detect/calculate the processing delay of a plug-in and automatically delays ALL the non-processed tracks to account for said delay. -A 5 disc or more CD changer with TWO built in transports. to me, today's multi-CD changers are so stupid 'cause you have this downtime between tunes while the next disc is loaded. why not have the next CD already queued? - truly networked computers for recording. analog world= mixer + tape machine + effects units + 2 track..all dedicated boxes working together. digital world=gang up mutiple pc's to get more processing power. i.e. use one just for running the plug-ins, etc. - if a 5 inch DVD can hold 5 hours of audio or whatever, can they manufacture a 3 inch version so a portable CD player could be half it's current size? - fake breasts that don't look fake. if girls are going to insist on getting implants, can't they at least look real and not like gravity defying beachballs? d. gauss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videoeditor1 Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 DG, I have seen 2, 4, and definately 5.... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/wink.gif NYC Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiraga Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 Fake boobs are like blown up body builders.. I ask; "Do yo know how your body will look in thirty years?" If they say no, they're dumb as a brick, if they say yes, they're dumb as a brick. Fake boobs feel yucky, look stupid, and don't really matter. How about a *self confidence* implant instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 Cubase does #1... If you had an extremely large hard drive and ripped all your CDs as WAV files (or mp3s, if you don't mind the sound quality) you could make #2 happen with a program like WinAmp (there's an auto-crossfade feature, so you can do exactly what you described). #3 is a great idea! The closest we have to that is people using Gigasampler, softsynths, etc. on seperate computers from the DAW, I guess. #4 -- Minidisc, kinda. #5 -- Can't help ya there. Good luck! This message has been edited by popmusic on 06-20-2001 at 08:36 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Gauss Posted June 20, 2001 Author Share Posted June 20, 2001 <> point to ponder: many breast implants are silicon. computer chips are silicon. how about "intelligent" implants? why carry an apple powerbook when you can have a built in hooter-tronic "breast book?" btw, does cubase really automatically account for plug-in delays? or do you have to manually delay each track? and please point me towards the existing double transport multi CD changer (btw, i've seen the 2 disc DJ kind) -d. gauss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 Originally posted by d gauss: btw, does cubase really automatically account for plug-in delays? or do you have to manually delay each track? Yep. There's a little checkbox within the audio preferences dialog box which says "automatically compensate for plug in delay" or something like that. I've never had to manually shift a track as a result of plugins (and I like plugins *a lot*!). I would've assumed all DAWs would have a feature like this, but apparently not. Which program are you using where you have to manually delay tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fet Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 How about a PC that starts/initializes in 2 seconds or less? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 How about a PC with no cooling fan and a storage system with *NO* moving parts? (Like, get rid of that stupid noisy hard drive...) A silent PC... Ahhhhhh... http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Hughes Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 "point to ponder: many breast implants are silicon. computer chips are silicon." The implants are silicone, not silicon. That would be really gross is they were made out of silicon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humannoyed Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 "The implants are silicone, not silicon". I thought that was just silicon from Italy. Breast implants are definitely silly cones. "It is a danger to create something and risk rejection. It is a greater danger to create nothing and allow mediocrity to rule." "You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at." W.H. Auden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Zap Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 Uh... ALL DAW's I've tried does #1 Or do you somehow mean "live" while monitoring through plugins... or what do you mean!? /Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Gauss Posted June 21, 2001 Author Share Posted June 21, 2001 silicon vs. silicone? oops my bad! i knew never should have gotten my breast implants at Computerworld! re: plug-in delay. i used IQS SAWPRO and a processed track is definitely shifted back in time a bit when using a plug-in rather than being compensated for. made it a real pain in the ass to easily mult things. i.e. squash the overheads and blend them in with the unsquashed.... -d. gauss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Posted June 21, 2001 Share Posted June 21, 2001 Originally posted by d gauss: re: plug-in delay. i used IQS SAWPRO and a processed track is definitely shifted back in time a bit when using a plug-in rather than being compensated for. made it a real pain in the ass to easily mult things. i.e. squash the overheads and blend them in with the unsquashed.... Oh, *that* kind of delay. I've tried that with Cubase, and even though it has terrific routing capabilities, when you mult things and affect the group and want to bring it back into the mix (i.e. the NY compression trick), there is a delay. In that situation, using an analog board with analog gear has the advantage, I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Gauss Posted June 21, 2001 Author Share Posted June 21, 2001 < thanks for mentioning that one. it shoulda been the top of my list. when i come home it takes me 2 secs to open my "snail mail" left by the postman (most of it junk btw)...however, it takes me never less than 4 and 1/2 minutes from the time i turn on my computer 'til the time i can see my first email in AOL (most of it junk btw)...that ain't progress! and my 12 year old tv gives me full scree live streaming video in sync with audio with no jitter within 4 secs of being turned on... (most of it junk btw) http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif -d. gauss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 >> How about a PC with no cooling fan and a storage system with *NO* moving parts? (Like, get rid of that stupid noisy hard drive...)>> that's coming someday. It's not quite time to be scanning the Circuit City ads for this technology, as it is still in development....but it is coming.... >> - fake breasts that don't look fake. if girls are going to insist on getting implants, can't they at least look real and not like gravity defying beachballs?>> Hmmmm....I thought that's what these women wanted to have? If they didn't want that, well, damn, they sure must be disappointed, 'cuz there sure are a lot of women models with that look... ------------------ Ken/Eleven Shadows/d i t h er/Nectar http://www.elevenshadows.com 4 music, travel, more! http://www.cdbaby.com/elevenshadows Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Originally posted by Ken/Eleven Shadows: >> How about a PC with no cooling fan and a storage system with *NO* moving parts? (Like, get rid of that stupid noisy hard drive...)>> that's coming someday. It's not quite time to be scanning the Circuit City ads for this technology, as it is still in development....but it is coming.... What I wonder is why there can't be some sort of RAM disk... I dunno if there's software around to do it, but I remember on the Atari 800XL, you could create a virtual (floppy) drive which was based in RAM. OK, I have a crazy idea how this could maybe be done today, with current technology... With memory as cheap as it is and with as much memory we can have on our computers, there's no reason Windows (95 -- maybe not 98 or 2000) couldn't be somehow be copied into memory upon startup and be treated as a RAM disk. Once Windows, your DAW program, and whatever else in your "virtual hard drive" has been copied into RAM, the hard drive could go to sleep so it'd finally be silent. Anytime Windows needs to access something from the hard drive, it would go out to the RAM disk in memory. That would mean much quicker "disk access" speed and no hard drive noise. If you had enough memory, you could record tracks on your DAW program directly to memory on a RAM disk. Maybe with the amount of memory most people have now, you'd need to stick to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz recording, and you might only be able to keep one song in memory at a time, and you'd need to wake up the hard drive and copy the data back onto the hard drive before powering down, but still... Is this possible? Is there some freeware/shareware RAM disk software that could allow you to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videoeditor1 Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Uconnbball has a post up in here somewhere about that kinda RAM DISK stuff. Do a search and see what comes up. NYC Drew Originally posted by popmusic: What I wonder is why there can't be some sort of RAM disk... I dunno if there's software around to do it, but I remember on the Atari 800XL, you could create a virtual (floppy) drive which was based in RAM. OK, I have a crazy idea how this could maybe be done today, with current technology... With memory as cheap as it is and with as much memory we can have on our computers, there's no reason Windows (95 -- maybe not 98 or 2000) couldn't be somehow be copied into memory upon startup and be treated as a RAM disk. Once Windows, your DAW program, and whatever else in your "virtual hard drive" has been copied into RAM, the hard drive could go to sleep so it'd finally be silent. Anytime Windows needs to access something from the hard drive, it would go out to the RAM disk in memory. That would mean much quicker "disk access" speed and no hard drive noise. If you had enough memory, you could record tracks on your DAW program directly to memory on a RAM disk. Maybe with the amount of memory most people have now, you'd need to stick to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz recording, and you might only be able to keep one song in memory at a time, and you'd need to wake up the hard drive and copy the data back onto the hard drive before powering down, but still... Is this possible? Is there some freeware/shareware RAM disk software that could allow you to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Originally posted by popmusic: Is this possible? Is there some freeware/shareware RAM disk software that could allow you to do this? Now that I think about it, I don't think it'd be worth it. You'd still have the CPU fan to deal with, so you'd have to run at a slower clock speed if you wanted to get away with no CPU fan. Worse yet, if Windows or your DAW crashes, then you've instantly lost *all* of the tracks you just created on the RAM disk. If it isn't enough of a pain to remember to save your files, it'd be worse if you forget to save your *audio* files to the real hard disk... Maybe in 5 years there will be a real solution... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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