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colinisadog · Post by **colinisadog** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:44 pm

Urs, thanks you so much.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:46 pm

TwoToneshuzz wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:
I went for the 2.7GHz i7 in the end - it was only 80 quid more, plus 8Gigs RAM.

So I am now officially a Mac user - or at least I will be when I pick it up next week

I'd be interested to hEAR about your experiences with the Mac mini.

I have this idea to make a 4 mac mini modular over a couple of years.. I'll start with two server editions with the i7 Sandy bridge, and then add the fast mini or what ever is available in 18 months..

I had mentioned earlier today that I might get iMac 27 inch 3.1 Ghz but it at 15000 Danish kroner, still only has 4 processors and is huge, not very portable, For about the same money I could have two Mac mini servers running at 2 Ghz. 8 i7 processors instead of 4 i5s at 2.7 plus a low budget 20 inch third party screenseems to me both a more powerful and portable solution.

I've being playing with Bazille this evening on my mid 2007 iMac intel duo 2.4 Ghz, with this I get two instances of Bazille in monophonic mode with most patches, but not all..

So it's upgrade time..

The sound of these plugs; ACE Diva and Bazille is simply mindblowing..

Thanks again Urs for the free year with Bazille, it gives me time and ecomonic space to get the hardware part sorted out.

Wade

Yeah there was no point in me getting an iMac as I already have a 32" Samsung Syncmaster monitor and don't need another, and the PowerMacs are just out of my price bracket. A 2.7ghz i7 is still more powerful than my first gen i7 laptop and that runs DIVA mostly fairly comfortably already. I could have probably got a PC desktop for less but tbh I'm interested in getting back into Logic - I rather miss it (and its instruments) from when it was a Windows programme - plus the fact that it is far less hassle to set up to use my iPad 2 as a midi/OSC controller than the hoops you have to jump through and glitches you have to put up with on Windows swung it.

Gonga · Post by **Gonga** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:14 pm

Bronto Scorpio wrote:Thank you very much Urs!
The font seems to be a little bit more blurry than before and there is a "small" problem with the cables on the preset window:

The preset manager is a really, really welcome addition

Cheers
Dennis

What an amazing concept in modular design - real-time audio-rate modulation of parameters by whole patches!

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:26 pm

Gonga wrote:
Bronto Scorpio wrote:Thank you very much Urs!
The font seems to be a little bit more blurry than before and there is a "small" problem with the cables on the preset window:

The preset manager is a really, really welcome addition

Cheers
Dennis
What an amazing concept in modular design - real-time audio-rate modulation of paratmeters by whole patches!

raikard233 · Post by **raikard233** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:31 pm

aMUSEd wrote: I went for the 2.7GHz i7 in the end - it was only 80 quid more, plus 8Gigs RAM.
So I am now officially a Mac user - or at least I will be when I pick it up next week

I'm afraid about the heat dissipation in minis, having them working almost all day with often high cpu use that bring a consequent heating, is something that i don't find comfortable with myself after burning a laptop logic board for intensive cpu use.
My goal is to wait for new Mac Pros mainly for their dissipation system, i know that the cost a lot, but i find them also an investiment in long term with my work.

Check out for minis and dissipation on macrumors.com forums, you can find some funny dissipation stories!

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:58 pm

I just noticed a small thing while I went through my presets to categorize them. There was a small bug in the previous version (alpha 0.4): The pan modulation inputs were named CV1 and CV2 while the entries in the pan modulation menu were named CV0 and CV1. This bug is fixed now!

This breakes old presets since the pan modulations aren't assigned anymore. Just click on them again in the pan modulation menu and everything works again

Cheers
Dennis

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:30 pm

So now that there is a patch manager, where might we find some patches for this thing? I know there's a patch sharing site somewhere, but can't see it on the forum and can't find it on the u-he site.

thanks!

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:34 pm

Echoes in the Attic wrote:So now that there is a patch manager, where might we find some patches for this thing? I know there's a patch sharing site somewhere, but can't see it on the forum and can't find it on the u-he site.

thanks!

http://www.u-he.com/PatchLib/bazille.html

Some of the patches may not work completely anymore though (look at my post above).
And I'm workind on a Bazille bank since a loooong, looong time

The new alpha has inspired me again and I'm almost done with it now

I may even finish it today

Cheers
Dennis

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:02 pm

raikard233 wrote:
aMUSEd wrote: I went for the 2.7GHz i7 in the end - it was only 80 quid more, plus 8Gigs RAM.
So I am now officially a Mac user - or at least I will be when I pick it up next week
I'm afraid about the heat dissipation in minis, having them working almost all day with often high cpu use that bring a consequent heating, is something that i don't find comfortable with myself after burning a laptop logic board for intensive cpu use.
My goal is to wait for new Mac Pros mainly for their dissipation system, i know that the cost a lot, but i find them also an investiment in long term with my work.

Check out for minis and dissipation on macrumors.com forums, you can find some funny dissipation stories!

The point you raise are interesting. I'm thinking of making a Mac mini modular system. This would consist of eventually 16 cores in 4 mac mini servers. I would be spreading the workload out over several computers, so exactly this point of overheating would here be minimalized. I also leave to the engineers at apple and intel to spec their gear out so it can be used at maxxed-out level with out overheating. They are afterall putting these processors into devices like the Mac book pro laptops that cost serious amounts of money, so failure because of overheating here would be extremely damaging for their business. Mac Minis also are somewhat more roomy than the average ultra thin Laptop.

Finally I could place the mini's in a custom built super cooled cabinet if this was an issue in my rather cool Denmark.

Wade

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:09 pm

Bronto Scorpio wrote:
Echoes in the Attic wrote:So now that there is a patch manager, where might we find some patches for this thing? I know there's a patch sharing site somewhere, but can't see it on the forum and can't find it on the u-he site.

thanks!
http://www.u-he.com/PatchLib/bazille.html
Some of the patches may not work completely anymore though (look at my post above).
And I'm workind on a Bazille bank since a loooong, looong time
The new alpha has inspired me again and I'm almost done with it now
I may even finish it today

Cheers
Dennis

I look forward to this coming bank. I also don't see why it should be free. I'd gladly pay a patch bank price of say 15 Euro's

Don't be modest now. I could be enjoying those patches for up to a year. Urs probably will be taking a holiday after the intense affair with a Diva..

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:15 pm

TwoToneshuzz wrote: Urs probably will be taking a holiday after the intense affair with a Diva..

Oh no, he won't. He has to take Zebra for a face lifting, and also some inside plastics, as promised (filters, etc.), and also finish the Berlin Modular. Come on, don't you want to play with LUSH and ACE XL, besides a finished Bazille?

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:34 pm

fmr wrote:
TwoToneshuzz wrote: Urs probably will be taking a holiday after the intense affair with a Diva..
Oh no, he won't. He has to take Zebra for a face lifting, and also some inside plastics, as promised (filters, etc.), and also finish the Berlin Modular. Come on, don't you want to play with LUSH and ACE XL, besides a finished Bazille?

Slave Driver! Developers need Rest and Relaxation. But that aside I think Bazille would be pretty high on the list after 4 four years.. Software is not like wine, it doesn't like to sit on the shelf too long.. gets musty or sour neau neau I'm no Zebraphile so I'd say first Bazille then Zebra.. Zebra is perfectly good from all acounts now..

Wade

Gonga · Post by **Gonga** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:07 am

No! Since Zebra's still the best synth made (or coded), it needs zero-delay feedback filters now to maintain its rep!

TwoToneshuzz · Post by **TwoToneshuzz** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:52 am

Gonga wrote:No! Since Zebra's still the best synth made (or coded), it needs zero-delay feedback filters now to maintain its rep!

One detail here though, what does the money say?

Wade

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:01 pm

Gonga wrote:No! Since Zebra's still the best synth made (or coded), it needs zero-delay feedback filters now to maintain its rep!

We're just testing a build of Zebra that has Diva's filters (still mono, no feedback, no fm). Boy, that's kind of a revelation

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Berlin Modular (ancient thread)