I'm not sure what country you're from, but some countries have this concept of 'the public health'. You might be shocked to know that in some countries, accepting addiction is not something that the government considers to be in the best interests of 'the public health'.
You realize how ridiculous this sounds when speaking of a country that widely believes in fan death, don't you?
The Creative cards from the Live on up are all DSPs. They are designed to convolute sound. So in a game if they want it to sound like you are in a parking garage, they give the proper commands to the card and it convolutes the sound to do it's best appromation of a parking garage. This leads to both lower CPU usage and more realistic sound than doing the processing all on the CPU.
Actually, convolution is done in software... at least, for the type of convolution that you're talking about (room or space modeling). To make something sound like a parking garage, you need to use a field sampler to first create an impulse response (the proper name for what you referred to as "commands"). Impulse responses can also be used for filtering, but in this case they are generally quite small (a few hundred frames or less). Responses that are created for room modeling can be quite large, on the order of 8-32,000 frames or more. Since convolution is performed on two waveforms, room shaping can't be done on hardware, unless you can somehow store a bunch of wave files on the actual soundcard. As the author of a VST plugin for realtime convolution, I would love to know about hardware support for convolution to which you speak. Please, can you show me where you read about creative implementing this in hardware? I'd love to know how they managed that, especially given the sub-par quality of their pro audio line.
I am unsure if it has the ability to function as a VST plugin built in, but certinaly nothing precludes it from doing so. It's a powerful DSP and has the capability to route sound in and out of it.
This is not possible. You own a 400$ fw interface (albeit, a rather bad one, but that's just my opinion;] ), but do you even use it for composing? I ask only because it seems that you have no understanding of how VST's work... the VST framework requires a host for loading up plugins, which are compiled as dynamically loaded libaries (DLL on win32, Mach-O/CFM bundles on MacOS). For a VST plugin to be run in hardware, the card itself would need to have it's own dynamic library format, a virtual VST host, and a whole slew of other crap normally handled by the OS. For this reason, it would logically be much easier just to take the contents of the process() and processReplacing() methods (which do all of the actual audio processing in a VST) and re-implement them directly in the audio chain.
I believe that it's so that Alienware can track who finds things on their site vs. who clicks on the email links, but that's just my own conjecture.
Seems like a pretty effective process for user tracking (*snicker*).. I bet some head scratching is going to happen at the alienware HQ today when they discover that their "mailing list" has suddenly increased 1,000X in size.
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I'm not sure what country you're from, but some countries have this concept of 'the public health'. You might be shocked to know that in some countries, accepting addiction is not something that the government considers to be in the best interests of 'the public health'.
You realize how ridiculous this sounds when speaking of a country that widely believes in fan death, don't you?
Ever heard of "dog years"?
Dogs aren't some type of magical learning creatures... they just mature faster than humans. Geez.
I'll keep this post in mind next time I have to set up our corporate IRC server...
Ah, another baby audiophile stretching his wings in preparation for flight. Fly, birdie, fly!
The Creative cards from the Live on up are all DSPs. They are designed to convolute sound. So in a game if they want it to sound like you are in a parking garage, they give the proper commands to the card and it convolutes the sound to do it's best appromation of a parking garage. This leads to both lower CPU usage and more realistic sound than doing the processing all on the CPU.
;] ), but do you even use it for composing? I ask only because it seems that you have no understanding of how VST's work... the VST framework requires a host for loading up plugins, which are compiled as dynamically loaded libaries (DLL on win32, Mach-O/CFM bundles on MacOS). For a VST plugin to be run in hardware, the card itself would need to have it's own dynamic library format, a virtual VST host, and a whole slew of other crap normally handled by the OS. For this reason, it would logically be much easier just to take the contents of the process() and processReplacing() methods (which do all of the actual audio processing in a VST) and re-implement them directly in the audio chain.
Actually, convolution is done in software... at least, for the type of convolution that you're talking about (room or space modeling). To make something sound like a parking garage, you need to use a field sampler to first create an impulse response (the proper name for what you referred to as "commands"). Impulse responses can also be used for filtering, but in this case they are generally quite small (a few hundred frames or less). Responses that are created for room modeling can be quite large, on the order of 8-32,000 frames or more. Since convolution is performed on two waveforms, room shaping can't be done on hardware, unless you can somehow store a bunch of wave files on the actual soundcard. As the author of a VST plugin for realtime convolution, I would love to know about hardware support for convolution to which you speak. Please, can you show me where you read about creative implementing this in hardware? I'd love to know how they managed that, especially given the sub-par quality of their pro audio line.
I am unsure if it has the ability to function as a VST plugin built in, but certinaly nothing precludes it from doing so. It's a powerful DSP and has the capability to route sound in and out of it.
This is not possible. You own a 400$ fw interface (albeit, a rather bad one, but that's just my opinion
Great idea! You can sew the first scarlet letter, then.
You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.
What if I beat my head against the table a few times and then mailed George Lucas $7?
Great idea! Let's call NASA right away; I'm sure they could use great thinkers like this right now!
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What hypocrites! I hope they only give no-sugar cookies... IE is bloated enough already.
I'm 6'5" and can palm a basketball. I use a 15" iBook because I liked the bigger screen, but I wish I'd gotten the 12" instead.
I wouldn't be caught dead with a 17" pb or dell; I like portability, and frankly, the keyboards on smaller laptops are just fine.
Slashdot doesn't retract news stories... in the bizarro world, it just reposts them again a week later with a slightly different article summary.
Ok, you're right... your internet penis IS bigger than mine!
*hangs head in shame*
A vegetarian diet results in enormous numbers of rodents and insects being killed by threshers and harvesting machinery.
I guess I should switch my diet to eating rodents and insects now, right?
Iron maiden?! Excellent! *plays air guitar*
I read that the article references...
Ah, see, that was your first mistake.
BTW, did anyone else notice that MS slashed their R&D budget? How do they expect to thrive in new markets if they don't try new stuff?
Who needs R&D when you can just "innovate" like they do?
I believe that it's so that Alienware can track who finds things on their site vs. who clicks on the email links, but that's just my own conjecture.
Seems like a pretty effective process for user tracking (*snicker*).. I bet some head scratching is going to happen at the alienware HQ today when they discover that their "mailing list" has suddenly increased 1,000X in size.
Looks like their slogan "Where do you want to go today?" could take on a whole new meaning!
Choice quote from TFA: "I've earned the right to fail, which means making what I think are really great movies that no one wants to see."
So yeah, I guess that's not going to happen anytime soon, if I had to make a guess. His denial is as deep as a root canal.
Just wait until you see the 64-bit spellchecker! It'll blow you away!
in ten years, we will all be thanking RMS for his foresight
Is that when the Hurd will finally be done, perhaps?
What's the point of earning money and stats, if you can simply buy them?
Uhm, if I had to take a wild guess, I'd have to say that Sony probably cares more about the money than some silly game?
It's not blurred out. That's just the alien technology force field which is protecting it.
*runs to the kitchen for some more foil*
IANAL, and watching them on TV gives me a headache.
That's why you shouldn't be watching Cinimax between the hours of 12pm-6am.
So it will be a society made up entirely of bloggers? That IS frightening!