Power of a DSP farm compared to Mix farm? Realistically.

[Heaven]

The DSP has two or four chips? And the Mix has six... Are the motarolla chips fairly comparable on both cards?

Thanks for any help people

Peace

[Alécio Costa]

the dsp farm will give you 8 in/outs
the mix farm will give you 16 in/outs

[Heaven]

Hi Alecio,

I meant the actual DSP power, not the ins/outs. Is a DSP farm 2 chips or 4?

Hows life in Brazil?

Steve

[Zeus]

The DSP farm has 4 chips which are less powerful than the ones on the MIX card. Waves plug-ins, however, seem to utilize the old farm cards nicely...

Z

[Ray Lyon]

The Mix Farms have three different kinds of chips (total of 6) some of which run different plugs than the others... (can't remember the scientific details but if you do a search here on DUC you will find plenty of info) For example, you can't run more than 4 reverbs on a Mix farm... however, the DSP farms all have the same kind of chip... DSP farms are a good option (esp. costwise) if you are a heavy Waves user or need an extra card for non time based (ie: NOT reverb, delay, pitch shifting) processing...

[bombfactory]

Using Bomb Factory Classic Compressors as an example:

PCI Farm: 4 instances
MIX Farm: 18 instances
HD Farm: 36 instances

Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter / Tel-Ray:

PCI Farm: 4 instances
MIX Farm: 6 instances (SRAM limitations)
HD Farm: 18 instances