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| Re: PARIS popping and crackling [message #99364 is a reply to message #99360] |
Fri, 27 June 2008 05:08   |
Kim W
Messages: 165 Registered: July 2006
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t; to be a lot of favorable talk about it. I'd like to have something w/
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>>> firewire
>>> so I could do remote stuff w/ my wife's PC laptop but that seems to be
>a
>>> whole 'nother can of worms.
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>>> Does anyone have experience with sending 24 bit ADAT lightpipe signal
>into
>>> Paris' 20 bit ADAT cards' inputs? Does it sound good, bad, indifferent?
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>>> I'm also interested in the Mackie Onyx 1200F. 12 Onyx preamps, about
>a
>>> gazillion
>>> other ins and outs, ADAT lightpipe, firewire, control room monitor,
>>> headphone
>>> outs. All for around $1700.
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>>> Anyone want to buy my 1975 Martin D28?
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>>> Gantt
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>Hi Gantt,
I use a Behringer ADA800 through my ADAT card, and it sounds really good.
Most preamps only have 20 bit resolution anyways because of the noise floor.
I think the very best preamps can produce 21 real bits. It won't make any
difference going 20 bit.
All the best,
Mike
"Gantt Kushner" <ganttmann@comcast.net> wrote:
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>So, I've been reading a bit about the Presonus Digimax FS since there seems
>to be a lot of favorable talk about it. I'd like to have something w/ firewire
>so I could do remote stuff w/ my wife's PC laptop but that seems to be a
>whole 'nother can of worms.
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>Does anyone have experience with sending 24 bit ADAT lightpipe signal into
>Paris' 20 bit ADAT cards' inputs? Does it sound good, bad, indifferent?
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>I'm also interested in the Mackie Onyx 1200F. 12 Onyx preamps, about a
gazillion
>other ins and outs, ADAT lightpipe, firewire, control room monitor, headphone
>outs. All for around $1700.
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>Anyo
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| Re: PARIS popping and crackling [message #99367 is a reply to message #99360] |
Fri, 27 June 2008 08:22  |
Chris Ludwig
 Messages: 868 Registered: May 2006
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;for me because the PSCL was written in a c-like style. It's all structures
>and functions. It's not object oriented at all, which is what is more common
>today and what I'm used to. I'm also still a new programmer. So, more
than
>once I've thought something was broken or messed up when it probably wasn't.
> I just didn't understand it correctly.
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>Anyway, what I have done is put locks on all the resources I can find that
>could be affected by two CPUs trying to change them at the exact same time.
> I've also discovered that there are certain card resources that the PSCL
>tries to change directly without going through the scherzo driver. These
>variables seem to need around 3 miliseconds to "take". I think that under
>windows 95, the PSCL was directly altering the memory on the cards, but
Windows
>XP doesn't allow that. What I think is happening is that Windows is intercepting
>the attempt to alter the variable and passing it down through the regular
>mechanisms, and that imposes a delay. If the app moves on and tries to
do
>something that requires the value being set properly, things go wrong.
I'm
>guess that on a single CPU system, Windows is regularly interrupting to
manage
>memory, read files from the disk, update the clock, etc, etc., so these
delays
>were "filled in" by windows. I'm just making them explicit.
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