FX Teleport is a unique and revolutionary DAW
networking solution. From now on it's not only
possible, but also very easy, to use as many
computers as you want for your DAW. Just launch your
favorite VST host on one machine and VST instruments
and FX on the others, and enjoy working on your
.audio processing farm.. You can even dedicate a
whole computer to your favorite VST synth.

With the help of Giga VST Adapter, FX Teleport will
be able to work with Giga Studio. Also, Giga Teleport
a combination of Giga VST Adapter and teleport
features is availble. You can get Giga Teleport if
you do not need to teleport any other VST plug-ins.
See the comparision chart for details.

Why you may need FX Teleport?

If the CPU resources on your main machine are
insufficient, you may want to use another machine for
the heaviest FX/Instruments. Using FX Teleport you
can easily turn your home or project studio into a
really powerful audio processing farm. Even if your
CPU horsepower is sufficient for your needs, adding
an extra machine will eliminate the peaks of CPU, HD
and RAM usage, increasing the overall reliability of
the system. Convenience reasons: a dedicated machine
means dedicated keyboard, mouse and monitor just for
control over your FX - which in the end may replace a
dedicated hardware control unit (like for instance
HUI). Just remember how many times you wished there
had been another mouse. Overall stability: in case
your FX plug-in crashes the machine, the host machine
with your song will remain stable and you won't lose
your work. You work on a project with someone else:
another person may want to help you tweak your FX
parameters while you are mixing, or make some
finishing touches on your sequencer. You want to get
the most out of your software synth: you can almost
turn it into a hardware synth if you dedicate a whole
machine to it. Just assign the whole machine's CPU,
RAM and HD, set the heaviest programs and FX, and
this will not affect the whole system in any way
and you will no longer need to do preliminary
bounces and mixdowns in order to free up some CPU
power for more plug-ins on your host machine. How
does it work? It's all very easy. On the host
machine, where the sequencer is running, there's a
VST wrapper. You will see a new VST folder named "FX
Teleport" with all the familiar plug-ins, but with
(LAN) extensions. You can use those FX in the usual
way you work with VST plug-ins. When such an effect
is used, the VST wrapper launches and searches for FX
Teleport server applications on the network, and on
finding those starts the chosen effect on the remote
machine. Next the VST wrapper serves as a bridge
between the host and the remote machine. It flows the
stream to the effect and processed signal back to the
host machine.

If you are working .on location., or you're just too
lazy to turn on additional machine(s), you have
nothing to worry about - the wrapper will search the
network, and having found nothing it will just start
the FX on the host machine in the way it used to work
before you installed FX Teleport. Then if you feel
you're getting out of horsepower on the host machine,
just start the other one(s) and teleport your FX with
a single mouse click.

Latency and jitter? You may ask "what about latency
and jitter while transmitting audio from one machine
to another?" There's no jitter at all, as all audio
is buffered in the wrapper. Latency exists, but it's
minimal. Our tests have shown a latency of 128 to 256
samples (or even less) with the audio card buffer set
to 128 samples. This means you can play live on
remote software instruments with a latency of less
than 384 samples (or 6 to 9 ms) - which is better
than with some hardware synths. Also note that the
latency is not variable and for your convenience it
is displayed in the FX Teleport window. Therefore you
end up with sample accurate synchronization between
your host machine and teleported FX - just set the
proper offset in samples or ticks (depending on your
sequencer) to compensate for the latency and you're
done.

Network performance depends on the number of FX
inputs/outputs, your networking hardware, version of
Windows and the way the network is (or is not) used
by your other applications. Therefore our VST wrapper
tests the system and finds the correct latency on the
first launch - just the same way as it is done while
installing an ASIO card. While you work, the VST
wrapper monitors and indicates the network
performance - much like the familiar VST performance
monitor. In case of network overload the red
indicator will show up, meaning that some audio
packets have been lost. If this happens frequently,
just click on the icon with 2 computers in the FX
Teleport window, and latency will be re-adjusted.
Alternatively, you can right-click on the same icon
and set latency to current peak value.

The amount of CPU resources consumed when sending
audio over a network will vary depending on your
system configuration. FX Teleport can work not only
via TCP, but also via UDP. Audio buffer size also
affects the system performance. Use these parameters
to optimize the CPU load of your FX Teleport
installation.

Features

Unique VST over LAN solution:

* Reduces DAW CPU load
* Provides a dedicated terminal for FX
* Prevents loss of data when FX crashes

Full host integration:

* FX parameters saved in the host song/project file
* Host automation support
* Audio streams to host mixer

Instant remote/local mode switch

Small and constant latency

Automatic and manual latency adjustment

No jitter

Sample accurate mode enabled

Live performance enabled

UDP and TCP support

VST 2 support

Support of multi-input and multi-output FX

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