Going No-native, dsp question Options

[karambos]

I presently run all my audio and effects natively on my G3 processor. It's only a small one (233MHz) and gets overloaded quickly with about 6 or 8 audio tracks with effects. I need some advice on what non-native solutions are available out there. As far as I'm aware there are DSP's (Digital Signal Processors) that take care of the effects (like the Powercore) and others that do both audio and effects (like DigiDesign's MixPlus). Is that right? Potential candidates so far are: TC Powercore, Digi Design 001, Yamaha DSP 2416, something by Terratec, MOTU Audio 2408, DigiDesign MixPlus, Creamware Pulsar, Creamware Scope.

Ideally I'm willing to spend more money on something that fully removes the load from my processor so that no matter what computer I buy (Macintosh) it will not overload. Basically I need at least 30 Audio tracks.

thankyou

karambos

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[Johnny Valium]

Hi,

all you need to know about the UAD card you'll find
here. Sounds impressive to me. Do you have one, Taiwaz? And no, it's not a sound card. You will still need your Audiowerk.

I own a ds2416. I can't recommend it to you because I don't really know what you want to do with your setup. The card gives you 16 channels with 4 band parametric eq, dynamics and 2 effects processors. If you don't plan to get beyond those 16 channels, it's a really good and reliable card. But if you need more audio tracks or other plugins, your 233mhz proc might get into trouble because, while the processing of the effects itself is done on the card, the bussing between the host application (in your case logic) and the card needs quite some processor power. The card is quite usable in logic although Cubase has a better integration. One advantage is that you can pick one up for very little money nowadays. A big disadvantage: Drivers are not updated anymore so if one day you switch to OS X you will not be able to use it anymore.

Greets
Johnny