hey i am a samp user (since the floppy days), nobody has the card yet – but i am getting mine march 11 then i`ll go into into test mode, as far as i know ( i do live recordings with samp and rme for years) it is all about the drive speed, i remember recording
48 track float straight on my laptop wich was a p4 but the drives where good) so 7200 should do.i do have a 64 pro 7 installed on my live recording computer, so if you can wait i`ll post a report…but if you cant wait: win xp sp 3 32bit (as sam is not 64) a “standardmachine” with 7200 drive(s).
if you still have a “good” laptop sitting round (7200 hdd)with a decent lan i would definetely give it a try (one can buy dante licence for a day i believe its 15 usd),instead of running to the store and buy a new one.and not to forget if you still have samp 7.23
sitting somewhere use that, to avoid bringing the dongle.

cheers
dave

allen&heath iLive-144 /idr 64 / idr 48 (i am convinced audionate is not delivering coz i am a frank zappa fan)

I had great success recording from the iLive via MADI to a MacBook Pro (2008 vintage I think) running Reaper, straight to the internal 5400RPM HDD. Thinking about it, we were only actually sending it about 6-9Mb/s, which these days should really not that much of a struggle. If all you’re doing is capturing, then I think RAID etc is nice but not essential, nor is esoteric processing/memory/storage hardware.

3.5 hours recording everything straight out of the iLive ADC’s over MADI I think clocked in just under 100Gb – so a 500Gb SATA 2.5″ drive (even if it does run the host OS as well) ought to be plenty. Archiving those recordings and keeping them backed up however… now THAT’s where you need raw speed and massive capacities.

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my setup is 2 idr’s 32 with madi cards, PC win, 2x RME hdsp pci madi cards total gives 128 channel, regular WESTERN DIGITAL drives 500G system, 1000G storage, 7200rpm SATA, recording to NUENDO. NO problems with recording 4- 5 hours 96 -100 channels NEVER!!! setup working already one year. no extra equipment.
possible connections 2 idr’s madi link to one madi RME card, recently i’hve recorded 2 DIGICO 48 RACKS total 96 channel.

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2x iDR32 +MADI OPTION
MacBook,
desktop+2x RME HDSP MADI

The killer combination that we used was
Ardour and Jackserver on OS X or Linux.

Why? Because in a Linux/Unix/OS X system you can setup a certain process as “realtime”. That way it cannot be interrupted by the UI processes for instance, which is crucial to build a system that’s really trustworthy.

Wouter
My prayers have been heard, Dante is coming!

no virtual Dante soundcard for linux: so it seems.

Concerning the thread priority functionality: Mac OS’s are built on top of a unix kernel… so they can do this too.

Wouter
My prayers have been heard, Dante is coming!