bitflipper

I'm quoting the salesman, who said compromises had to be made because the hardware unit is a dedicated processor and if you treated every user's DAW as a dedicated reverb processor there wouldn't be much steam left over for everything else. It's entirely possible that the coder was able to come up with optimizations the second time around that allow comparable quality with a lower CPU hit.
 

The salesman's talking complete bollocks. As you know there are far more gigaflops in an i7 chip that some little Sharc chip on a DSP unit. The coder himself ("Nobody Special" in that gearslutz thread that I linked) quite clearly states that there are no compromises.
 
I'm not trying to devalue your veracity. I just think the salesman would still like to keep that "OTB is better" myth going for his own reasons. The big advantage with the plugin is that you're not limited to one instance, like you are with the box. And while the plugin is only x32 at the moment (but runs nicely in Bitbridge) it's on the way to coming out as x64, which will more or less future-proof it for a few years.
 
If you want a true stereo x64 impulse reverb, may I recommend Reverberate, which can be combined with the free Acoustica Bricasti impulses and its modulation capabilities to knock Altiverb for six.
Sorry to hijack your thread. Keep up the good work.
 
 
(edit: pesky formatting!)

bitflipper



Willy shows off the new keyboard everybody's yawning over. OK, so a new MIDI keyboard isn't exactly earth-shaking news. But this one has this button:

Is it me or does Willy seems a little scary with those red eyes?
I'm a photog myself so I know how they happen, it's just that..........

All in all, thanks for the pics Bit.

Looking at those pics, does anyone else get the horn? 

bitflipper


Sax Porn

What's this one ^^^^
                   Doing to that one      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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De-flowering it?

I swung by Garritan but it was very busy, so I elected to come back when it wasn't so. Unfortunately, it never wasn't so. So I missed you. Not the only stop I never made it to, either. That's what happens when you decide to slow down and smell the pitches.

I went to many NAMM shows.  Some were great and some were not.  I sure have eaten a lot of $12 hamburgers off the top of the trash cans.  I hope they have added some tables and chairs to give you somewhere to talk business by now. 

Seeing the demos is the best part.  Walking all day with bags of literature is the worst part.

January always makes me think about NAMM.  Enjoy.

use something like photobucket to host the pics and use the [image] [/image] code to link em, dave...

Hey Bit,

Thoroughly enjoyed reading the NAMM reports. Although I do think that the Cakewalk/Roland Midi Keyboard/controllers are a good thing. One will be on my next purchase list.

Thanks guys.  I'll add mine later tonight.

Brings back a lot of memories when i was given a pass a few years back.  Only time I have been, not sure I need to go back....but it was cool.

I can still smell all the blocks of wood downstairs where all the luthiers hang out!

JR

Miscellany


At the Hofner booth, Sir Paul was a little confused. Note it's a right-handed guitar upside-down.

This one's for forum member Tom Deering (deeringamps), who I thought should know that they're using his name to sell banjos.



No drummer jokes, please


Free kazoo lessons. And after I wasted all that money on lessons at the local music store!


Good luck getting this mic stand through airport security!

A Magazine Review

I want to tell you about a nice discovery I made at the show, a new magazine called "M", subtitled "Music & Musicians". I think folks here would find it a worthwhile read.

It's a large-format, glossy publication and I almost passed it by because of that. Looks too much like Entertainment Tonight. But it was free so I tossed it into the bag to peruse later.

Half the mags I scarfed that day ended up in the hotel wastebasket, not worthy of the extra weight in my carry-on. Luckily, this one went in the bag - and I admit it was because it had a photo of Alicia Keys on the cover and I was hoping there might be a full-body shot inside.

I started reading it on the plane, and to my surprise it's a great magazine. Mostly interviews with music industry people and record reviews, but the articles were well-written and interesting. And the interviewees were interesting people like Al Schmitt and John Fogerty, not the latest autotuned cutie of the week.

Just thought I'd pass that along.

Free Kazoo lessons - that consists of blowing it once and learning how to run away from a lynch mob.

Hey Bit - Didja get by Steven Slate's booth by chance? He has a whole brand new line of digital products there - dying to know what they're like.

Well, since they already have a booth, maybe you could just park a couple amps there and save the 20 grand or whatever it costs to rent a booth at NAMM. It might take them a couple of days to figure out how they got there, and in the meantime you could just hang around like you're really into banjos or something. Just like that, you're a NAMM exhibitor on the cheap!

BTW, what is this Vintage Show you speak of? Is that something local?