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    @Another User said:

    I will probably add a 3rd later on which will be the last - primarily because my Dr Bott KVM only supports 4 devices.


    I've been using Windows Remote Access; my KVM has been sitting unused on the floor. There's now a Mac client at www.Mactopia.com, and it works spectacularly well. Of course it's not as fast as a direct connection, but it's fine for slave machines, and I like having the Windows machines in windows on the Mac.
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    i've been using an upgraded cube (1.2 ghz) as a slave for about 1.5 years. the mini or minis will be the next move. i use the Firebox as my midi and audio interface on the cube.
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    Helen - not quite sure how to count number of voices. I can get all 12 VIs playing simultaneously though.... but I guess some patches will have more than one voice at once.

    Nick - I'd forgotten about Remote Desktop, I normally turn it off to get optimal performance. Do you have any experience or knowledge round the impact of having it running?

    Cheers

    Tim
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    As far as I can tell the impact is not a factor, Tim. Maybe someone else will disagree and depress me, but it just seems to work and that's that.
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    Nick,

    I tried this once before but found that it would automatically assign the audio driver to the virtual one, so I couldn't get my audio apps on Windows to use my RME card. How is your audio configured on the PC slave?

    J.
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    Windows Remote Access screws up your audio driver?! That's bizarre.

    I have a Frontier Designs Wavecenter PCI card on the PCs and MOTU PCI-424-based hardware on my G5s.
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    I'll do some investigations when I get back to the studio and let you know if I get issues with the audio...
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    the settings for RD should show 5 tabs - the middle one is named *local ressources* - select for sound *on remote computer*.
    christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
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    Thanks, Christian

    I'll give that a go later.

    One other question, though. I've got 4 GB of RAM installed, and I've opened a hefty Solo Violin, taking 511 MB. But the remaining RAM is listed at only 1685 MB. I suppose this is the RAM limit per app, imposed by the system?

    Wouldn't it be possible for VSL to instantiate multiple vsl-server and vsldaemon processes to handle this? Maybe there could be a setup app, like the Logic Setup Assistant, in which you could specify your total installed RAM and the software could decide, based on available RAM, how many instances of the server to run? Sound possible, or just delusional?

    J
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    So, looking again at the VI Info thread, it looks as though I should get around 2.8 GB of RAM max, with 4 GB installed. So why does my machine only show 2164 free with nothing loaded?

    J.