UAD- I may go for it by end of month
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- Banned
- 22457 posts since 5 Sep, 2001
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- KVRAF
- 20917 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
They take standard power supplies so you can modify them easily. For example, when they sell "silent" versions of their cases, all they're doing is installing a PSU they purchase from PC Power & Cooling.
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- KVRAF
- 4229 posts since 9 Apr, 2003 from Right here, in front of my computer...
I still don't get why a single space Cardbus<->PCI Magma chassis costs, like £800.
You can buy cardbus and PCI cards for small amounts, so that technology isn't expensive. Cases and power supplies aren't much either. So okay, there's some active buffering and circuits to sit between the two interfaces, but £800? I could see why they could cost *maybe* up to £200, but...
Maybe the market's so small they need to have huge markups or something?
You can buy cardbus and PCI cards for small amounts, so that technology isn't expensive. Cases and power supplies aren't much either. So okay, there's some active buffering and circuits to sit between the two interfaces, but £800? I could see why they could cost *maybe* up to £200, but...
Maybe the market's so small they need to have huge markups or something?
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- KVRAF
- 20917 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
You can buy used Magma or Avid chassis for pretty cheap but then they'll jack you on the accessories. $320 for the cheapest PCI card, $90-200 for the cable to run between the PCI card & chassis, etc. You'd think some big mobo company like Asus or MSI would come along & blow Magma out of the water but I guess, in this Jobbs-inspired USB/Firewire world, the average computer user doesn't really care about PCI cards.
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- KVRAF
- 2565 posts since 30 Mar, 2004 from Phoenix AZ USA
They charge £800 because they can.beej wrote:I still don't get why a single space Cardbus<->PCI Magma chassis costs, like £800.
You can buy cardbus and PCI cards for small amounts, so that technology isn't expensive. Cases and power supplies aren't much either. So okay, there's some active buffering and circuits to sit between the two interfaces, but £800? I could see why they could cost *maybe* up to £200, but...
And they can because the market is so small there are no competitors.
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- KVRAF
- 3125 posts since 6 Dec, 2002 from Ljubljana/ Slovenia
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- KVRAF
- 3944 posts since 7 May, 2004 from behind his workbench
does that apply to UAD cards as well? you must be joking?AndrewSimon wrote: Tracking is possible (I do it) but it's not easy.
Latency completely depends on your system and your sound card.
The formula goes like this:
(TL) = (NP) x (SL) x 2 + (SL)
(TL) - the Total Latency
(NP) - the Number of uad Plugs you use on the track
(SL) - your System(sound card) Latency
So if you run on 64 samples (1.4ms) like me and you add 1 compressor on your track then:
Total Latency= 1 x 1.4 x 2 + 1.4 = 4.2ms
If you add a second plug on the track, like a reverb.
Total Latency= 2 x 1.4 x 2 + 1.4 = 7ms
Of course if your system is set at 10ms things start to add up very fast.
For two plugs:
Total Latency= 2 x 10 x 2 + 10 = 50ms
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- KVRAF
- 3125 posts since 6 Dec, 2002 from Ljubljana/ Slovenia
yupbeej wrote:Yeah
Still, my UAD card retains it's value though...
(waiting for the more powerful version)