Re: OT - missing the third dimmension - not enough dsp power

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:52 PM, <rune_fagereng@yahoo.no> wrote:
> The music I make misses depth - or the third dimmension - so I use delay 
>and
> reverbs to make this dimmension

Not the best choice, I would say. You should start with the
frequencies. "Paint with frequencies!" Dark sounds for background,
mood etc and bright sounds for punctuation up front. Or the other way
around; bright sound at very low volume to create "three dimensional
sonic clouds".

When that stuff works fine for you is the time to bring in reverb and
delay to sculpt the dimensions into the same directions.


> 1. Is my AD-DA converters (Motu Traveler) not good enough?

Depends on what you do. If you record to reproduce acoustic sound the
Motu may not be good enough. But if you record to make cool music the
Motu is good enough - because then you are setting your own
references.


> 2. I Is my plugins inferior (Abletons and Sony Oxford)? The lack of power
> essential ? Or is hardware a must?

Sony Oxford are known to be good enough plug-ins. Some like Abletons
too. Hardware is not a must.


> 3. I lack the power to use my plugins like I wishes. Any thoughts on how 
>to
> get this without buying a new computer?

YES! Freeze tracks with plug-ins to free up CPU cycles. THis doesn't
work for real-time playing on stage though, but you can set up your
performance rig to render many files of your live music playing and
then you import them into a mixing environment and do the 3D magic.



> Is Tc power core a good solution?

Don't know. Depends on what "good" means. A couple of years ago Tc was
"good" because it made your computer stronger for mixing. BAck in the
days I remember Tc Powercore was held as a system that offered great
digital reverb, while the compressors etc were better in UAD-1 (UAD-2
is available now, which you should check out if you are going this
route)

I never bought into any of these DSP empowering systems myself though,
since I use Logic and then you have no such limit thanks to the option
of chaining all your old Macs as ethernet nodes to the one you produce
on. Like building a "CPU network" with Logic as the brain. But I have
never actually been forced to set up a node system, even though I have
tried it out just for curiosity.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com