MIX card or older DSP card, that is the question.

[Digital Sound Lab]

2 older dsp @ $800 = $1600 with 6 chips.
1 Mix card @ $2600 with 6 chips.
or-----------
A seperate computer with monitor and a 001 system linked for additional 24 track and Massive RTAS (G4 500 will equal a Mix card minus playback buffer latency) @ $2600?
or -------------
$2600 in alcohol to stock up in the studio lounge?

------and can you get a switcher or something that a Control 24 could run both the RTAS and TDM system? Transfer 10 tracks through the ADAT and digital out on 001 to ADAT bridge? Or swap files via ethernet? Just curious cause just 10 tracks on a LE system can reep mass DSP power.

[Digital Sound Lab]

anyone?
it started here http://duc.digidesign.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/004596.html

[tigeba]

Get the mix card. If you try to sync 2 systems ( aside from the problem of getting them to sync properly ) you will always have 2 sets of files for each session, 2 sets of things to backup, you will have to copy data back and forth between machines if you want to juggle tracks around, ick. Lots of folks use a vintage farm as their 3rd card in a system as a dumping ground for those plugs that take an entire chip, but do not exactly require a mix farm chip.

If you get 5.1 you are going to have some nice RTAS support anyway http://duc.digidesign.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[Digital Sound Lab]

I'll get a mix card. It seems like the most simplest way to go. For info purposes, a Digidesign Tech guy said that the DSP chips on a Mix card are 80 mhz but have more cycles than a standard DSP chip and are closer to a 300 mhz? I trust most tech guys but, is this BS?

[Dog BBQ]

Originally posted by ZEALOUS:
2 older dsp @ $800 = $1600 with 6 chips.

Don't the old cards have 4 chips each as long as there is no I/O hooked up to it?


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[Digital Sound Lab]

Actually, I think Dog BBQ is right. I heard that some plug-ins won't run on an older DSP card?
I want to know if all of a sudden they will be obsolite within the year and if there is more power between the two.