Robiaster

I've tried TeamViewer and AnyDesk in the past, but they don't offer USB passthrough and have way to much latency to be usable for most purposes, and introduce unnecessary overhead and security risks considering all the machines are in the same location. Unless the solution is any improvement to just moving my chair to another machine with a different mouse and keyboard, it's not an option for me. I do not have any use for a KVM over IP solution as all of the machines are in the same room. For everything outside of that, we can still use the operating systems own remote desktop functions instead, so a 3rd party remote viewer tool only makes sense if it's a significant improvement over using multiple screens and keyboards.

Could you elaborate what you mean by virtual screens? I haven't used the software (Synergy) since 2017, but I wasn't aware of any way I could view displays through it, as I was under the impression that it only forwards keyboard and mouse input, as well as clipboard sharing. I would be interested in having a look at software KVM solutions as well, however fast switching times and passthrough of USB devices is vital for my use-case. I appreciate all the input in the thread so far! Let's take a few steps back. I've got 6 machines I want to access. I need to constantly switch between them, so I want to keep the time to switch between devices as low as possible. Ideally I would like to access them all through the same display, as well as through 1 set of input devices. I need lossless audio passthrough, ideally through an ASIO device / Audio interface. Since this is a business case, spending an amount of money is not a problem if it ends up saving me time in the long run.

I've been in contact with Synergy already, we might consider a business license as we have some machines with very old operating systems (since we do QA for backwards compatibility). That being said, this still doesn't improve the handling of displays, meaning that it will behave like a 7 monitor machine, and I will still need to switch inputs for some of my monitors to access all machines (as they don't all have individual monitors right now). It can be done, but with how inconvenient it is to switch between 2 machines on the same monitor, I might as well just keep using multiple sets of input devices. We are using remote desktop for some things, however there is considerable latency. I've already automated some of our testing and installation procedures so some doing some tasks remote is less painful, however for certain things this isn't an elegant solution, or inconvenient. Mac Screen-Share also doesn't support for audio passthrough, which makes it a bit pointless for doing QA for audio software if some issues might show up as audio artefacts. Doing recording for documentation and guides also doesn't really look good if you record them with input latency. It's one thing if you need to do this occasionally, but for a setup where you might work on it 8 hours at a time, there's a huge opportunity cost just in lost time. Since it's a business expense, if it saves me considerable time, it is very much worth it. Last but not least, working with several operating systems at the same time also makes using different remote desktop solutions somewhat inconvenient. I'm open to explore other options, but I hope this highlights some of the drawbacks that caused me to consider a KVM system in the first place.

Hi LTT community! Not 100% sure this is the right sub-forum for this, but I'll try my luck anyway. I'm working for an Audio Software company in Germany and am looking to consolidate our QA setup to more easily switch between machines. I've got 2 Windows machines, 2 mac mini's and 2 iMac's running several partitions, all for testing purposes. I'm looking for an elegant solution to quickly switch between all of them, so either a monitor with an integrated KVM switch, or some sort of KVM box that can consolidate all of them. The iMac's can be expanded through thunderbolt, the macMini's have HDMI out as well as thunderbolt, the windows machines both have HDMI and Display Port. All in all, thats 6 machines, if possible I would like to use my macBook to control all of them on the display, possibly through Synergy or similar, however I'm a bit lost as to what type of KVM switch would make sense. Some of our staff also remote into these machines for testing purposes, so they need to remain active even if they are not active on the KVM switch. Budget (including currency): Estimated max would be up to 2000€ (though somewhat flexible as it's a business acquisition), less would of course be desirable. Country: Germany Expandability for multiple users would also be interesting, that being said, my priority for now is just to reduce the amount of screens that I need to maintain, so I can more quickly test more issues on more machines on real metal in less time. So focus on responsiveness and reliability. Thanks in advance!

This might actually be an Incentive to upgrade my Computer at some point. Its completely optimized for an Audio Production workflow, but for these kind of computing workloads the performance per watt is actually so bad it is probably doing more bad then good keeping it running on load :P Actually considering, the performance is minor per phone, but the computing cost compared to power required is probably very efficient on an ARM cpu or similar. I wonder how that would compare if you scale those numbers up.

Hey, my name is Robin! So basically there is a plugin called Direct Wave for the FL Studio (a DAW) With its latest build FL has added a feature to quickly render any synth or VST plugin into a multilayered Sample library. Meaning that if you spend your time creating a static and non time-synced synth preset, you can render it into a CPU friendly Sample library in 2 clicks. Rendering times may vary Now here comes an idea. After i have spend my time frantically rendering a bunch of my plucked synth presets i created over the years of making music into direct wave librarys, i have thought about a platform to share these and enable others to do the same. These files can rank from anywhere from 2mb, to 40mb on an average thing, to 3GB if working with multiple velocity layers. To insanely large librarys if you have multiple cycles for velocity layers so not every key-press sounds the same. This can range from 20GB piano Libraries to theoretically infinity. Usually a bit lower than that though. I would be interested in first of all the practicality since its basically a file hosting platform with a bunch of extra, -The legal side, since there would be an issue if users started distributing libraries that are copyrighted. This does not include ILs opinion on the matter (the company behind FL and Direct Wave). I can acquire that information easily first hand -How easy it would be to live scan incoming files if they are actually the desired format, if the file is actually the format and not just the filetype used as a container, and scan if it is a library that someone else has already uploaded. Hashing and the sorts... This wouldn't be a large scale thing, but since it would probably include users that are interested in getting the data stored getting Gigabytes of data in one go. So i guess not really a suitable project for a home network? Also i would generally like to get some thoughts on this, it would not be a private thing in the sense that just me (and 300 members of the FL Discord) should be able to access it, but it is not meant as a startup business modes. Rather something that can be done on the side by one or 2 people. Also any general input would be appreciated, am not a tech newbie, neither for music, but i have no idea about business. PS: All members of LMG that have been there since last winter own a producer edition of FL Studio as it comes bundled with the Razor Blade

Will be using some studio headphones through the aforementioned audio interface. Mac or Windows. I'm used to windows and would probably prefer to stay out of the Apple ecosphere. The programm I am using (DAW) is FL Studio. It does have a Mac version nowadays but it's still in alpha. Would rather save money on the brand and invest that in more horsepower if you catch my drift. Don't really care about the design brand or how thin it is.

So here is the deal. I work with Music production and i am looking to buy a Laptop. The thing about working with electronic music production is that it is a rather CPU intensive task. It benefits from multiple threads and more cores for processing but does not need a high end Video card to go along. So i am looking for Laptop with a rather good CPU. Storage doesn't need to be fast. But it has to be plenty. I tend to store and use a vast amount of samples and library's that on their own all are pretty big. I will need at least a terabyte of hard drive storage. I do own and plan to use with this machine a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. It needs at least 8 Gigabytes of RAM. 16 or more would be nice but 8 isn't a deal breaker here as i would do things like working with hour long samples at a Desktop PC with more RAM. The screen needs to be at least Full HD (1980-1080). This is because scaling in the software i use sucks. I once tried to use it on a HD 720p screen and some of the synths were covering the whole screen or were even bigger, Non re sizable, to the point where i had to drag the window to use the other third of the window. So anything lower is not an option, but anything higher would not be a problem as scaling in that direction is getting highly optimised. Just cant scale below 1:1. Otherwise i don't really care how it looks. May be garbage as long as i can see what i am doing. Oh, yeah. Touchscreen: Nice addition, can definitely live without though. Video card. Ok, i will not be gaming on this Laptop. There will be some graphical stuff. But when i say that i need potato graphics, i mean potato graphics. Some on board graphics would probably be just fine. Battery life. Yeah, decent i suppose. Id pay a few bucks more for a few hours, but id more or less make it dependent of the rest. At least 2-3 hours, if needed i will see to get an outlet when i work, but more would be better. Budget, well this is more for brainstorming before i allocate budget. But as most things in life, the best value. TL:DR Non gaming laptop, higher end CPU, Shit graphics card, at least 8gigs of RAM, Full HD Screen If anybody knows something, or can point me into a direction id be very thankful. Thanks in advance!

I have a CSL SM-800 Mouse wich craps out most if the time , A Logitech Access PCI2 Keybord (had to change a regisry key in Windows 10 to get it to work again) and a Superlux HD 681 2x32 OHMS Pair of Headphones that I use for Monitoring.

I have an Nvidia GT230. Why do i want the card ? Because i cant even run Skyrim fluently on medium settings. Also i am sick of my brother bugging me that i am using his old card xD. But seriously , since i mostly use my computer for Music production and gaming , and the first has more priority , the bottleneck of my system is by far my Video card , with having recently updated my motherboard and my processor and RAM , because these are more important for rendering audio.

i personally am a nocturnal guy. I like working at night , especially in the Summer because i cant stand the heat of the sun on really warm days. And the low ambient hum of the world around you on a breezy night can be especially inspiring. I am a Musician , i work with my DAW when ever i have the time. The only reason that is keeping me from switching to mobile on my workflow , (since i already use headphones most of the time) is UI scaling. It sucks and on a screen with a HD or lower resolution a single vst takes up more then 80% of the available screen space. This projector would enable the kind of setup that you could use outside on the back wall of ones house without having to spend hours to set it up every time, or having to panic when it rains. Also that thing looks sexy as fuck... dem lenses ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Although it is pretty dark here most of the time at night , i wonder how the performance is in different lighting conditions. Its certainly non of dem projektors that are so bright they burn right through the canvas