pulsar 1 and gigastudio 3

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Sun May 11, 2008 11:16 pm

i know that someone is succesfully using gigastudio and creamware boards...
but i'd like to have some comments about this fact, since i have to advice a friend of mine about building a second PC to be used with gigastudio and vienna symphonic library.
i said him that a good and relatively cheap PC could be:

asus p4c800-e deluxe
P4 3GHz
2 GB ram
pulsar 1 board connected with a single ADAT channel to an RME card (on his first PC)

the PC will only run gigastudio in standalone mode, and the only drawback i see is that he will be limited to 16 midi channels.

but i want to be absolutely sure about the fact that giga3 can run with GSIF driver with low latency....

thanks!

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:31 am

your friend can go ahead with GS3, I have it here running under the same configuration that you describe and it works like a charm

edit: sorry, I might have answered a bit fast: I'm using a luna2 and can get down to 3ms, not sure about the pulsar1...

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:35 am

thanks
regarding the latecy since i don't use GS3... i never understood if the latency refer to only ASIO or also to the GSIF drivers.
in theory GS3 should be faster than ASIO... and he will not use any host, only GS3

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:57 am

sure, it wouldn't be surprising if the gsif driver is better written than the asio... the fact is ulli doesn't go lower than 13ms @44khz on a pulsar1

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:04 pm

memory may betray me, but I found the GigaPiano on my Pulsar One to be more responsive than VST Instruments - with TripleDat running ASIO latency couldn't be lower than 26 ms
I wouldn't be surprised, too, if Giga drivers had a more sophisticated software base than ASIO - I played that Piano on a Celeron 333, even over a network connection...

cheers, Tom

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Wed May 14, 2008 11:14 am

It's a wise idea to upgrade to Gigastudio 4, since it is now optimised for multi threaded CPU's, and can host VST FX, ans VSTi's.

It is a great application and the kernel level MIDI while not being noticable by the ear, can handle massive amounts of MIDI and ULLI information w/o a hiccup. Cubase and Bidule gag on similar attempts.

Maybe SC and XITE-1 will have new drivers, but the old 1.7's from Creamware are amazingly stable, and efficient.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:47 am

I can see an upgrade in the future maybe, but tend to agree.

Why fix it, if it works well?