[LAU] New Computer - Wooo!

[david]

On 11/19/2012 11:15 AM, Folderol wrote:
> Some additional info.
>
> I forgot that British slang often doesn't 'travel'
>
> Squid is a comic corruption of quid, and a quid is a UK pound, so that is
> 542 ukp.
>
> I can't remember the precise details now, but included in the total price is an
> extra 20 or so for an uprated PSU with extra margin of power and low noise. Also
> another 20 for a better case lined with sound absorbent material. As Charles
> said you can pay silly money for little improvement and I thought this was a
> reasonable compromise. For all practical purposes the whole thing is almost
> unnervingly silent!

Ah, thanks!

> I'm not overly concerned about graphics - I'll never do any video work on it -
> and it is comfortably driving a 24in 1920x1080 DVI monitor. If, in years to
> come there is a problem I can always slot in another graphics card, but I think
> it very unlikely I'll need to.
>
> So far, stability looks very good.
>
> Right, torture test :)
>
> Yoshimi
> CH 1
> Hyper Matrix which is a 3 part voice kit comprising 3x addsynth (each with 3x
> voice) + 1x subsynth
>
> CH 2
> Master Synth Low which is a 4 part voice kit comprising 1x addsynth (with 5x
> voice) + 2x subsynth + 2x padsynth
>
> Separate MIDI keyboards fed to each channel via jack, CH 1 playing a fast
> rocking bass, ch2 playing quite fast 3-4 note chords - total processor usage
> peaked at about 40% and *no* x-runs at all.
>
> I think I'm going to have work hard to find my new limits :)

Try synthesizing an entire symphony orchestra using one synth for each 
individual instruments. ;-)

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