FX Teleport, Bidule, Extra Processing Power!

One of the reasons Bidule looked so compelling to me has to do with FX
Teleport. Currently if you are using a Mac computer
you have to use a Windows server and Windows process farms. In some of
the /Virtual Intrument/ mags they were saying that you can install some
sort of host in the server and stream from you host computer to the
server. I was thinking about how flexible I would want that host to be
and this is exactly what I was thinking about. Something to break out of
the usual. I want my software to do more for me than hardware.

This actually reminds me of something else. With a setup like this I am
not sure it matters what platform your host is on. Are you catching were
I am going with this? Linux, Windows, Mac with the appropriate hardware
your server and the farm computers could be a constant that your host
platform and DAW utilizes.

First, FX Teleport 2 is due for release probably somewhere around the
same time frame as Leopard. That will allow Mac host with Mac farms, Mac
host with PC farms, or PC host with PC farms, but apparently not PC host
with Mac farms.

But with for now FX Teleport is PC only. The most streamlined system
would be to have a PC running a VST compatible host etc. Then attach
your farm computers. But in one of the /Virtual Instruments/ magazine
articles they spoke of a way to run a Mac host with FX Teleport. Article
title: /Studio Farms/ by Jesse White. This method seems to me to be most
flexible to me.

Here are the components:

Host machine (Here I prefer the Mac, more explanation later)
Gigabit network
File server computer
Farm computers

The Server will have to be a beast of a computer because it will hold
all of your samples and plugins. The fascinating thing about this method
is that any plugin can be instantiated on any of the farms and the
samples (where needed) are streamed from the server! Also even if your
DAW doesn't support VST instruments and plugins you can stream MIDI and
audio from the host to the
file server. So you have a VST compatible host on the file server with
as much flexibility as possible in terms of combining and using
instruments and effects. Once you have created your preferred effects
this will be your constant.

If you use a Mac, utilizing bootcamp you can run Window, Mac, or Linux
and now your effects and instrument farm is completely
host agnostic. I doesn't matter if you use Tracktion, Ardour,
Rosegarden, LogicPro, ProTools. The other intriguing things is that you
can use UAD, PowerCore, etc as long as they are installed on the file
server.

In some cases you can send the MIDI, and KVM over the network from host
to fileserver.