#Artmatic graphic synthesizer upgrade#
#Artmatic graphic synthesizer software#
#Artmatic graphic synthesizer mac#

#Artmatic graphic synthesizer software#

Bitheadz are already working on optimising their Retro AS1 software synth and Unity DS1 virtual sampler, with an anticipated doubling of polyphony. This sort of reworking shouldn't take too long, and by the beginning of next year we should see a lot of applications with little 'Velocity Engine‑accelerated' stickers.

#Artmatic graphic synthesizer upgrade#

The catch is that software writers will need to actually upgrade their applications to take advantage of the extra power offered by the Velocity Engine - this could involve a recompile, or in some cases, it might just require a new plug‑in or extension. The change which you will hear most about is the Velocity Engine, which is marketing‑speak for a parallel‑processing influenced vector processing unit which is specifically designed to give a speed bump to the complex repetitive calculations that you find always quoted as being used in 'graphics and video' applications (the high‑end G4s will apparently do the MPEG decoding of their DVDs in software, not in a hardware accelerator!), and which computer‑using musicians might recognise as being the province of audio processing too. The G4's PowerPC 7400 processor chip may add only an extra 0 to the 740 chip used in the G3 machines, but there's a number of significant changes which mark this as the fourth generation of PowerPC processors. Once I could laugh off, but twice? G4ĪrtMatic: where sound and pictures meet, mix and mingle. My computer‑buying timing is beginning to look like more than just an accident. Now I'm not a 'leading‑edge' chaser, and I've taken my time changing Operating Systems (most of my work is still done using MacOS 7.6.1, and it's only because the recently acquired 'Blue & White' G3 came with MacOS 8.6 that I've discovered how similar and yet different it is without the push, I suspect that I'd still be a pure System 7 user), but I'd really have appreciated just a little longer at the front of the race.Īnd, of course, despite all the rumours saying that they would arrive late this year, or early next year, the new G4 Macs were announced just a few weeks after I bought my G3. In my case, the 'same casing but miles faster' beige G3 Macs were gleefully announced just a few weeks after my 7300 arrived. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but computer development seems to hate contentment.

#Artmatic graphic synthesizer mac#

For a few weeks the 200MHz 7300 was at the top of the Mac heap, and I got a warm feeling knowing that having several times the standard cache was getting me an extra few percent in speed. When I first bowed to the inevitable and bought a PowerMac, I weighed everything up carefully, and bought at the leading edge, just as you are supposed to. THE IDEAS EXPRESSED ARE THE PROPERTY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE AUTHOR.Martin Russ laments his unerring success at buying new Macs just as they are about to be superseded, but recovers enough to find another little‑known but fascinating seam of music software. NOTICE of Copyright: THIS POSTING AS WELL AS ALL PHOTOGRAPHS, GALLERY IMAGES, AND ILLUSTRATIONS ARE COPYRIGHT © JOHN NEEL AND ARE NOT TO BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT FROM THE WRITER, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND/OR. Please have a look at some of my other posts here. All of the images in the gallery were captured with a Lytro camera, refocused after shooting, saved as jpegs, (a few were tonemapped as single exposures) manipulated in Photoshop, modified with Nik Color Efex, Silver Efex, Flaming Pear Software, ArtMatic Graphics Synthesizer and/or painted with Studio Artist. Here are a few refocused and digitally altered images. When creating collage type images like the ones shown here, it can be a big advantage to have a lower resolution image to work with. The camera allows the image to be focused after the image has been shot. Sometimes, it is actually an advantage to work with a camera that makes shooting so simple to do. There is probably no other camera that is quite as easy to shoot. Probably, because I can see its future, but also because it is fun to play with.

I’ve been playing quite a bit with the Lytro.