I just received my copies of Atmosphere, Trilogy and Stylus! Here are my first impressions with some surprise

http://www.iloyd.com/studio.htm

PS. Don't get hot on me if they appear too be too positive!

TG

Nice graphics! Did you do them for Eric or just for fun

very nice, don't you wish hardware like that existed?

Thanks LP. I had done the Reason images for fun but I did the Spectrasonics modules for Eric. An other 3D shot is visible at Spectrasonics NAMM booth photos.

TG

whitey wrote:

very nice, don't you wish hardware like that existed?

I dont. It would cost $10,000 probably . I'll take the software version thank you very much. Much more flexible. I do like the graphics a lot tho WOW!

AD80 wrote:

whitey wrote: very nice, don't you wish hardware like that existed? I dont. It would cost $10,000 probably . I'll take the software version thank you very much. Much more flexible. I do like the graphics a lot tho WOW!

Well I actually wish there was hardware like that and that I could afford it. You know everytime i get hooked on a software instrument I find myself wishing it was reincarnatedd into hardware. Is it just me or would we all love to have a studio full of harware if the money was of no concern.

The graphocs do look terrific.

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Is it just me or would we all love to have a studio full of harware if the money was of no concern

call me odd - but no - i prefer having it all in one box

having said that - for the stuff i do [deliberately lofi] - i dont care too much about absolute sonic fidelity so the hardware / software split doesnt concern me too much

slainte rob

I am with experimentfour. I like good sound. software gives me the advantage of having everything in one box. Only place I drool over hardware is keyboards. I am a sucker there, which is why I am glad that the minimoog voyager and alesis andromeda are so expensive . A really good hardware box like the Dave Smith evolver, while tempting would be infinitely more so if it had a keyboard version.

prog

Me too, prefer to have my synths in one box, but I enjoy seeing 3D incarnations of softsynths. They help me to grasp what I have in my computer and encourage me to explore its potentials. I think, sometimes it is easier to omit a synthesizer if it is in software form... perhaps because it hurts the wallet much less than a hardware.

Only thing I hate about softsynths is that being always have to worry about the CPU!

TG

gassle wrote:

Me too, prefer to have my synths in one box, but I enjoy seeing 3D incarnations of softsynths. They help me to grasp what I have in my computer and encourage me to explore its potentials. I think, sometimes it is easier to omit a synthesizer if it is in software form... perhaps because it hurts the wallet much less than a hardware. Only thing I hate about softsynths is that being always have to worry about the CPU! TG

Me four. I much rather have my gear in a single enviroment where I can switch things around and add as many synths as I want and load as big a sample as I want. Having 7 diffrent instances of Pro-53 is much more convenient than actually having a room full of Prophets V's. I dont think CPU load will be much of an issue when the new Mac processors, and the new Intel and AMD processors come out.

heck CPU load is not too much of a hassle with my current xp2000+


prog

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heck CPU load is not too much of a hassle with my current xp2000+

That's what i thought with my dual 2 x 1.6 Ghz until i started hitting 80 % on a regular basis (more power=more toys)

leaping frog wrote:

Quote: heck CPU load is not too much of a hassle with my current xp2000+ That's what i thought with my dual 2 x 1.6 Ghz until i started hitting 80 % on a regular basis (more power=more toys)

That's probably true. I could bring it to my knees if I want to, esp using something like Reaktor and discovery, but with crystal and z3ta+ I do fine, but then I know that as we move along, CPU load will become a lesser problems (I know that all too well from work)

Alright, guess it's just me then.

Probably it's a depravity complex from the days when the only way to get a moog was to buy a moog and i couldn't afford more than a roland home keyboard with humilating green and purple buttons. Mind you I was only about twelve then.

Probably explains my tendancy to lust over the software re-enacrnations of old synths.