Methods of coping with the wait for the TI

[Nigel Harkness]

Originally Posted by ten

Well, ive spent the last couple of months speccing and building my new DAW while waiting for the TI.

Its cost a pretty penny but it should be worth it.

Here is the run down of what it features....

Dual AMD Opteron 250 (2.4ghz) E step .90nm cpus
Swiftech H20-120-DB (rev3) dual opteron water cooling kit
Tyan 'Thunder K8WEX' (S2895) Dual Opteron nforce4 pro SLI SCSI version motherboard
4gig (4x1gb) Corsair EEC registered DDR400/3200 ram running (2 for each cpu, dual chan, NUMA enabled)
1x Maxtor Atlas II 36gb 15k u320 scsi drive (main OS drive, dual boot winxp pro(32 /PAE enabled) and winxp pro(64) (ch1 onboard scsi)
2x Maxtor Atlas II 73gb 15k u320 scsi drives (1 for audio programs/vstis - other for audio samples/streaming) (both ch2 onboard scsi)
2x Maxtor Diamond Max plus 10 16mb cache 300gb SATA drives (both for main scsi hard drive backup images and misc file storage) (NCQ enabled)
Silverstone ST64ZF 650watt split plane (4x 12v) EPS12/SSI PSU
Matrox Millennium P650 128 PCI-Express graphics card running dual output at 1920x1200 DVI (in pci-e slot 1 routed through nforce4 pro 2050 to cpu 2)
LaCie 64bit PCI-X Firewire 800 card (in slot A 133mhz pcix slot) (routed through amd8131 to cpu1 bypassing nforce4)
Magma 7 slot 32bit/33mhz PCI expansion chassis (connected to cpu2/nforce4 pro 2200 bypassing amd8131)
RME FireFace 800 (connected to lacie firewire card at 800mbs bypassing nforce4)
4x UAD1 dsp pci cards (all on same IRQ inside magma chassis)
2x TC powercore dsp pci cards (all on same IRQ inside magma chassis)
2x Dell 24-inch 2405FPW LCD (running dual outputs both at 1920x1200 DVI each)

I have all the parts already, just the motherboard now which should arrive next Thursday and then its complete, excited to say the least

Should do me good for a few tracks and vstis lol

ten

How much is this beast of a machine setting you back?

[ten]

Its cost roughly ?4000 ($7600) give or take. Ive been very lucky with some of the parts and got them dead cheap, should last a while though

ten

[Nigel Harkness]

Damn man I wish that I had that kind of money to throw around, I would have gotten a new mini-moog.

[Tomer=Trance]

or a 40 dsp kyma system.

[Nigel Harkness]

Originally Posted by Tomer=Trance

or a 40 dsp kyma system.

What the hell is that?

[matsa]

kyma system

Tomer, I just had a look at that Kyma and had a listen to a demo. Have you actually played around with it?

[grimleyj]

That's funny ... I did something similiar.
Took the money I was saving for the TI and went on a spree last week updating my DAW:
New as of last week:
2 x 250Gb SATA drives configured as Raid 0.
Matrox P650
RME HDSP 9652
3 x Behringer ADA8000
Presonus Central Station
Presonus Eureka
2nd UAD-1 with Precision Limiter
Spectrasonics Atmosphere
ImpOscar
Vanguard )these last 2 may well be a replacement for my Virus they are that good).

I saved the best for last:
2 Dell 24in LCDs:



-grimley
http://home.comcast.net/~grimleyj/

[matsa]

Grimley
What do you reckon to serial ata? What was your old system?
Cheers
Matt

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Tomer=Trance

why did you replace a wighted keyboard for a synth action one?
wouldnt it be a better idea to have a good master keyboard and a desktop version like the V synth xt ?

The truth is I never learned to play on a piano; I've always played synth action keyboards. I found that I had to slow the tempo often to play fast parts that could have been recorded at normal tempo with a synth action keyboard. Plus space was the other limiting factor. I like to have all my keyboards in front of me with my monior up front too. I simply don't have enough room for a keyboard synth and a full sized midi controller.

As for the V-Synth XT, well it hasn't been released yet, so I'm also on that waiting list. I just figured out I like NI Kontakt, but a new 2.0 version is being released this month but it still isn't available.... Waiting SUCKS.

[Papa]

I considered myself patient enough to wait for the release of the TI. I pre-ordered the keyboard version in November and won't be charged until it ships. I decided to cancel my pre-order, because I just purchased the V-synth. After much debate with myself about it, I felt like the missing piece was this "sonic mangler". I really love the idea of being able to sample or import anything and in real time be able to freak it and make it sound like no one else. I already have a Motif ES7(for acoustic and drum sounds) Nordlead 2(for va) Juno 60(for analog) and I play guitar and bass, so... The possibilites are infinite. But it won't be complete without a Virus TI. I used to have a Virus kb and sold it to get the TI back in December. I know it will take some time to get to know the V-synth,so I will sit back and see how the first batch of TI's handle and in a few months who knows. A month ago if someone said that I would buy another synth before the TI came out I woud've laughed. I believe I read a post on this sight about the V-synth and that peaked my curiosity. It's not something that can replace the TI, but certainly will add more originality and satisfy my tweak tooth!