--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Dave Katz <dkatz@...> wrote: > > > On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:27 PM, leonhorrocks wrote: > > > It will be fantastic if the new intel macs can be used as nodes > > with the G4-G5 generation as > > people are saying, although it seems odd it would be able too. > > Not at all. I'm sending this email and you're reading it, and we may > well have different hardware (and different operating systems) but we > don't care, because there's a platform-independent network protocol > that lies between us. Unless Apple was outrageously stupid (and > that's not likely) they defined a platform-independent network > protocol for communications between Logic and a Node (and I'll wager > that it's probably more general than that.) It almost certainly > works in high-level primitives--the server says "instantiate a > platinum verb with the following settings" and then sends a stream of > sample data. The node knows how to compute a platinum verb. I meant odd by, different OS, different chipset, different versions of Logic. So I guess the data that goes to the node has nothing to do with how the sofware has been compiled. It's just raw DSP calculations. I guess a G4 and G5 is a different chip, and the huge difference between a core duo and a g4 means nothing to then node. Its just number crunching. All in all its means for $AUD1299 you can add huge power to any setup. That's awesome. I can see many a post production facilitiies cutting rooms and songwriters/composeres home studios being driven by a little white box stashed in the corner somewhere. Leon