[Luca De sensi]

Ciao Adriano,

As Ty said, I think you are right on the money.

Going with ambisonic ambiences can ease some of the burden of creating a basic environment.

You can then add, layer, pan and mix foley and additional sonic elements to enrich and better detail your ambiences.

Back in the day, not having any 5.1 or Ambisonic sound library, I had to build my ambience track layering different stereo elements from SFX Cd libraries (Sound Ideas, The Hollywood Edge, etc.), or DAT recordings, and then duplicate all these elements and shift their timing in order to have different events hitting the surrounds…

I still use this technique today considering the large amount of SFX that have been accumulated at the facilities I work with.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Luca

[Luca De sensi]

Thank you Brent.
I’m already upgrading the machine from 2 x 2,26 quad core to 2 x 3,46 six core…. so, might as well give it a try and add a second power supply using your method.
Could you share pictures and info on your upgrade or point to some schematics? I think some of us, still with a single graphic card in our system, could benefit from any info available to extend our Mac Pro lifespan…

Cheers,
Luca

[Luca De sensi]

Hi Brent,
just wondering how do you power two cards on your Mac?
I have a Mac Pro 4.1 with a single R9 280x and that seems to overburden the machine…. no real test so far, but….

Thank You,
Luca