Na Na Na Na Na. 8) Whats better than Buying a Bricasti?

I know what you mean John, but I remember speaking with the guys from Bricasti, and their explanation seemed plausible, and not self serving. As processing power gets cheaper, eventually it will be possible to do what you're suggesting, it's just a matter of time.

even if a plugin uses 1/10th of ur computers processing power... It's way too much as ur computer has a LOT of other things to do as a multi tasking hardware device..., A bricasti is a single purpose computational hardware device

SHARC chips are older, slower devices. The M7 has 6 Blackfin processors. You would need 10 I7 Intel processors to equal the processing in the M7. Needless to say, that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Computer simulators will not be able emulate what is going on inside the M7. Imagine the heatsinks, fans, power supplies and shear size to build a PC version of it. At under 4 grand, the M7 is a bargain. Remember Lexicon main frames at well over $10,000?

There are two kinds of studios in this world, those that have the M7 and those that do not.

That's right.  It's been a while since I took the lid off mine.  They were Blackfins.  My memory is getting foggy.  I don't see a plug in touching what an M7 can do for a very long time.  Perhaps if you built a monster pc that only did one thing?  But then you'd probably spend more money and time than just buying and M7 that fits in 1 rack space.

I had the one Cowboy bought (and sold) for a couple of days. It sounded great, but it didn't just "destroy" other verbs...

I still don't understand people who think a generic do it all CPU is going to come close to the power of dedicated DSP!
Someday yes plugins will equal what the M7 will do but at that point these guys will have gone beyond this, the math these guys came up with is out of this world.'
The only thing that sucks is there won't be a watered down like PCM70 version cause of the digital HP needed !
Let's see if I sell all my delays and verbs I can come up with how much?

I COMPLETELY DISAGREE


8)

there are THREE kinds of studios ...

Those that have one

Those that dont

and mine!

where I come in smile, laugh, then slowly start to sink into depression and sobbing as I realise its going to have to go back at some point

8)

cheers

Wiz

glad to have multiple geeks on this forum :-D

You can have one for $106.00 a month for 36 months from Sweetwater, offer good till Sept 8th.

I could also put it on the BofA card get 1% cash back, then transfer the balance to the CitiBank card
and get 1% cash back, interest free for 18 months and 1% of the payment everytime I make a payment.
Tempting.

Since the Bricasti already has the most realistic reverb, does that mean it'll be like visiting the holodeck on Star Trek after the upgrade? 

With DSP processors, equating computational power against a generic CPU is misleading and not something that is done by designers.

DSP requires specific coding, which is tightly tuned for the application and for the processor it's used with. It usually doesn't include a lot of error traps/handling nor does it have any fluff that would make the code portable to other processors. Nevermind that the DSP processor is built very differently, and the chip resources are arranged very differently, and efficiently for the application.  Think of a bullet train.  Very fast going one direction only.

Generic CPU coding is pretty wasteful as far as coding goes. it contains tons of error handling, and a lot of fluff that allows it to be used across multiple generic processor types. Generic CPU design is also pretty wasteful. It includes tons of resources that may or may not be used, and may or may not be used well.  Think of an SUV.  Built heavy and utilitarian and can go lots of places, but slow.

You've heard of comparing apples and oranges, this is more like comparing apples and brake pads for a '70 chevy nova.

Any comparison is strictly marketing speak.

I don't understand the continual reference to one plugin and one CPU. One reverb plugin is so 90's. Ya'll do understand that multiple processing is available in the computer geek's network. Multiple CPU's and multiple DSP chips and multiple algos are at the disposal of anyone with the gumption to give it a whirl. That is common practice here. I have a crazy monitoring chain that doesn't necessarily get printed every time. But I do likes to be flabbergasted when writing or scoring.