Luna and dedicated gigamachine

Crickstone · Post by **Crickstone** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:49 pm

Anybody using another machine for Gigastudio with Creamware. I am building two machines one DAW and one Giga. I have two Luna cards and the I/O box. Any suggestions for running the two together? Or should I go with audio and midi over LAN?
Thanks

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braincell · Post by **braincell** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:02 pm

Cubase has a method of connecting 2 computers but they require you to have 2 registered copies of Cubase.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:41 am

Giga and luna is a pretty good solution. They both work perfectly togheter.

If you have an spdif on your main daw, you could output the giga mix to luna spdif dest and bring it in your main daw digitaly.

Better way would be to have the adat extension to luna connected to your main daw digitaly again but with multiple channels instead of a stereo mix.

I would not suggest using asio overlan, or stuff like this that depends on software. Giga is pretty resources intensive, and would also add unnessary latency and strain on machines resources.

So, an average PC with luna+adat ext. and giga for the samplers PC

in combination with a real workhorse PC with a good audio card + nuendo (or cubase, sonar, samplitude, tracktion, ableton live, etc...)

For me that's a killer setup

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Crickstone · Post by **Crickstone** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:42 pm

That's what I thought, but isn't the ADAT extension as rare as hen's teeth? Know where I can get a couple?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:30 pm

they are not that rare on eBay, but of course not in couples...
I'd just pick another sellout Luna-box and send the samples down the analog road.
Adat jitter versus conversion error, place your bets

cheers, Tom

Crickstone · Post by **Crickstone** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:45 pm

I thought about that. I picked up my first 2496 at AudioMidi for 299 US. That would be a stable solution don't you think, and then just send the midiover LAN...Here's a silly question why doesn't Z-Link to Z-Link between cards work? I'm new to Creamware so forgive me. Also the help so far has been great!
Thanks

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:24 pm

The gsif drivers won't work with GS3...?

Or did I miss something?

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:08 pm

Just cos it sounds on topic: http://www.fx-max.com/gt/

Giga over LAN. I haven't tried that one yet, but I'm happy with their FX-Teleport.

Crickstone · Post by **Crickstone** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:10 pm

As fas as I know GSIF will work fine but you can't input into GS3 to use GigaPulse, for example, you need GSIF 2. But as far as I've read the GigaPulse is a CPU pig so I not concern about losing that ability just yet.