Mac Pro has landed! Some Boot Camp observations...

[amost]

If you care that is. Excuse the enthusiasm.

It's pretty. It's the basic 2.66/1G/250 HD. I installed PTLE on the Mac side & that was pretty impressive:

30 Audio Tracks that I loaded up between 130 & 140 DVerbs(depending) on inserts, recorded on the 31st track and was cruising along and bounced to disc fine.


so I went for the Boot Camp install later...

Nuendo with Bootcamp: Not a very exact test but I figured I'd try something.
I opened up a 34 audio track session plus 4 sub groups & 5 FX auxs,loaded up some stuff & hit record on a channel:

102 Ren Comps
39 C4's
27 L2's

System usage was about 3/4 using Digi's 002's ASIO driver also(1024) which is defintely not desirable but since my Lynx card won't work I have to do what I can for now. Seems like a smoking machine. Mac haters be gentle.

I'm not even sure if I have 4 cores working(if that's the right term) On the Mac side in PTLE it shows 4 but on the XP side in PTLE it only shows 2 and when I click on My Comp/Properties it only shows one 5150 @2.66. Surely Nuendo is not getting these results on just one core? Trying to figure that out.

I MISS my Lynx Two A but I'll have to figure out some other type of conversion I guess. Blah blah blah.

[manning1]

gotta say tho i'm a amd pc guy man BUT thats very impressive.

amost...i would be very interested if you took any old 3 minute audio track and pitch shifted it up an octave and post how long the batch dsp process took.
what about heat ?? any probs ??

[amost]

Originally Posted by manning1

gotta say tho i'm a amd pc guy man BUT thats very impressive.

amost...i would be very interested if you took any old 3 minute audio track and pitch shifted it up an octave and post how long the batch dsp process took.
what about heat ?? any probs ??

Hi, well I took a 3 minute mono track & used PTLE's Audiosuite Pitchshift up an octave. Seems like that took about 4-5 seconds max. If you mean by batch dsp I didn't do a whole tune as in all the tracks. This was on the Mac OS side.

It's taken me all day to find out that perhaps XP Home only supports 1 processor(2 cores) and that that's all I've been seeing on the Boot Camp/XP side. Going to buck up for XP Pro tomorrow and hopefully realize all 4 cores. It's hard to believe that Nuendo was rawking like it was with only 2 cores...I dunno. It's all new to me.

Quiet machine & the heat doesn't seem too bad but I'm in an open room for now.

[manning1]

amost....
when you did the pitch shift was it actually destructive ??
ie..affecting the waveform ?? and the actual file ??
if so...highly impressive.

[composer]

Originally Posted by manning1

amost....
when you did the pitch shift was it actually destructive ??
ie..affecting the waveform ?? and the actual file ??
if so...highly impressive.

Hate to dig up such an old post but am curios as to using a MBP and Boot Camp (Tiger Stable with Logic/Mackie but alas no boot camp) and try to get my Nuendo 3 rig up and running (or on a Mac Pro) and am wondering what the experience is to date as of March 08 with Boot Camp/ASIO and a Mackie Firewire - in theory, if I never had problems with a XP set up, wouldn't this be the case with Boot Camp? I miss my EWQLSO and FX Etreme plug ins.

Advice needed and thoughts.