I would love to have flex on my mini and get rid of the PC.
On 9/27/06 6:00 PM, "Cecilio Bayona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I wrote before some FireWire cards are downright nasty, the thing is > a perfectly good card is inexpensive, I guess some manufacturers don't > check out their hardware or software very well. > > But the Edirol card looks interesting. I like the idea of having a good > quality sound card that I can move around to different PC's without > having to take cases apart. I was not sold on the Firebox because of > some of the quirky behavior it had specially considering the high $$$ cost. > > One thing that does bug me is the mention of high CPU usage, I've been > using FireWire at home on my Mac's ever since Apple invented the > technology, and high CPU utilization is not my general experience. I had > test cases where a 300MHz G3 would input and output four video and > stereo audio streams simultaneously and it didn't drive the CPU very > hard at all, less than 25%, that was mostly due to the displays. That > was a very old MAC so what gives with the PC's? > > On my current 2GHz G4 Mac I can do massive HD copying from a Firewire HD > to another or to a IDE drive and the CPU utilization barely hit's 5% but > on my PC it's up to 70% while transferring at a slower data rate, and > that is while using identical cards in each machine. > > So when is the Flex Console going to be available for OS-X? The DttSP > modules aught to love Altivec. > > > Mark Amos wrote: >> Hah! No, just an "early adopter" I haven't done a lot of tuning (seems like >> some little things like turning off the network adapter...) really help. >> >> I started putting a "separate profile" together, but with the minor tweaks >> I've done providing some relief, I just haven't been able to justify the >> time to finish that effort up. >> >> I think my FireWire card may be some of the problem with the FireBox (when I >> put in the Belkin card, I had more audio dropout problems. Probably a >> configuration issue, or dumb installer issue... >> >> Mark >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of KD5NWA >> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:21 PM >> To: Flex Radio >> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Edirol Firewire box >> >> Do you own Edirol stock? You are trying hard to get us to part with >> our money and succeeding. I assume it's a 2.66GHz Pentium 4, I'm >> amaze with that kind of speed you are having choppy audio but then >> only you knows what it's loaded on your PC. >> >> I setup a 1000MHz Pentium III PC with 500MB of ram with a separate >> profile just for SDR-1000 usage, I took out networking and anything >> not needed from the profile. With version 16.2 official release, the >> CPU utilization with a Delta-44 at 96KHz sampling is about 10%, and >> about 7% with 48KHz sampling. It also got rid of the spike in >> utilization that it use to have. It goes to show how much clutter >> there is in a standard version of Windows XP. >> >> At 07:24 PM 9/26/2006, you wrote: > SNIP >>> >> _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
