Any word on Revalver 4 release?
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- KVRAF
- 3462 posts since 17 Sep, 2006 from Fredericksburg, VA USA
Got the demo - sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Now the web won't sell to me. OMG! Please take my money!!!
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- KVRAF
- 3462 posts since 17 Sep, 2006 from Fredericksburg, VA USA
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- KVRAF
- 2035 posts since 6 Sep, 2005
You can use pretty much ANY USB key as your dongle, or most other USB devices the program will recognize, like your USB sound card, USB mouse, etc.Flatout wrote:So, do we need some kind of dongle?
1:04 omward.
Pretty cool if you ask me.
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- KVRist
- 218 posts since 8 Feb, 2014 from Austin, Tejas
Would have paid up to ~$60 to upgrade from mkIII.EvilDragon wrote:So, no upgrade deal for mkIII users? That blows.
Nevermind, I don't do dongles of any kind.Flatout wrote:So, do we need some kind of dongle?
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- KVRAF
- 3329 posts since 18 May, 2003 from Sweden
It most certainly does! Peavy is bouncing potential customers at the gate. Smart move.EvilDragon wrote:So, no upgrade deal for mkIII users? That blows.
Just compare with Steinberg, who generously allow upgrades to Groove Agent 4 from G A v. 1!
/Joachim
If it were easy, anybody could do it!
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- KVRAF
- 42529 posts since 21 Dec, 2005
Interesting. Some of it is just bleck. Some of it is eye opening. Can't save it looks like.
The disco "bwwwweeeeeeeeeeeep" is interesting
Sometimes, it's "wobbly" like there is a limiter or compression threshold that is off. Gotta figure out what to do there.
The disco "bwwwweeeeeeeeeeeep" is interesting
Sometimes, it's "wobbly" like there is a limiter or compression threshold that is off. Gotta figure out what to do there.
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- KVRian
- 1392 posts since 28 May, 2008 from Saint Paul, MN
Nothing is real, until we hear an audio cliphibidy wrote:Interesting. Some of it is just bleck...
Sometimes, it's "wobbly" like there is a limiter or compression threshold that is off...
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- KVRAF
- 4468 posts since 15 Nov, 2006 from Hell
yep, i too noticed some sort of limiting going on.
my impressions so far - i likely won't get the full pack. i don't care much for the high gain amps, although the mesa is somewhat disappointing - it's not really that high gain, and all the distortion channels sound kinda samey to me. ditto for the diesel - thin and weak. high gain stuff in Amplitube i like much, much better. can't say anything about the budda and some of the peavey amps, i'll check them out properly later. what did impress me, however, were the orange and the marshalls. those i will likely get through the shop.
ACT - interesting concept, but so far the experience using it has been pretty negative. any pre-chain disables everything completely (in demo mode), so i can't really tell if my guitar sounds like a strat or not. any post-chain is full of distortion and compression, so much that it simply turns any guitar chain into continuous fart. maybe when i get an authorized version it'll be better, but so far it looks like a gimmick.
i know jack shit about schematics, so my "modding" has so far been to change tubes and fool around with random values to see if anything comes out, but it's a lot of fun.
bottom line - they've got a great platform, although the initial offering is somewhat disappointing, at least for me. i'm VERY curious to see what will happen once they release the amp builder and the community will start coming up with amps and stomps.
EDIT: oh, and cabs in Revalver are far more convenient to use than in Amplitube. all that choice ends up being a hindrance in Amplitube, compared to R4.
my impressions so far - i likely won't get the full pack. i don't care much for the high gain amps, although the mesa is somewhat disappointing - it's not really that high gain, and all the distortion channels sound kinda samey to me. ditto for the diesel - thin and weak. high gain stuff in Amplitube i like much, much better. can't say anything about the budda and some of the peavey amps, i'll check them out properly later. what did impress me, however, were the orange and the marshalls. those i will likely get through the shop.
ACT - interesting concept, but so far the experience using it has been pretty negative. any pre-chain disables everything completely (in demo mode), so i can't really tell if my guitar sounds like a strat or not. any post-chain is full of distortion and compression, so much that it simply turns any guitar chain into continuous fart. maybe when i get an authorized version it'll be better, but so far it looks like a gimmick.
i know jack shit about schematics, so my "modding" has so far been to change tubes and fool around with random values to see if anything comes out, but it's a lot of fun.
bottom line - they've got a great platform, although the initial offering is somewhat disappointing, at least for me. i'm VERY curious to see what will happen once they release the amp builder and the community will start coming up with amps and stomps.
EDIT: oh, and cabs in Revalver are far more convenient to use than in Amplitube. all that choice ends up being a hindrance in Amplitube, compared to R4.
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I don't know what to write here that won't be censored, as I can only speak in profanity.
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- KVRAF
- 3462 posts since 17 Sep, 2006 from Fredericksburg, VA USA
The Peavey website will not let me login to authorize R4... very frustrating. To top it off, I just finished paying for it. I normally use Firefox so I tried IE and still no go. 
D Scarlatti, Dell XPS8700 i7/8gb mem/1tb hd/Steiny UR22/Presonus ER5s/Nektar LX61 kbd ctrlr/Win 10 Pro/S1 4.6/ my music here: https://www.magix.info/us/profile/my-profile/media/
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- KVRian
- 1392 posts since 28 May, 2008 from Saint Paul, MN
Early adopter syndrome
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- KVRian
- 1392 posts since 28 May, 2008 from Saint Paul, MN
Interesting video:
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- KVRist
- 417 posts since 5 Jan, 2007
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- KVRist
- 101 posts since 13 May, 2011
So I tried the profiling thing. Wasn't very impressed as I was by the demo. I tried to profile my guitar multiple times, some sounded good, some sounded bad.
It brings me back to the point I always bring up with the Variax. The reason the Variax uses piezos instead of a magnetic pickup is because piezos have a flat, huge broad frequency response. Now, what would you want if you wanted to model pickups and guitar bodies in a modeling guitar? The sound of the strings before it goes through the pickups and body and electronics. what is the closest thing to that? Piezo pickups.
It's why you can't make a humbucker truly sound like a single coil or vice versa, and you especially are going to struggle making a bridge pickup sound like a neck pickup.
I really honor their attempt, but either I'm doing something wrong or it's just not there yet. It's a really smart idea, but for the reasons I've stated above are what will ultimately limit this technology.
I'll try out the amps now. I'm sure those will blow me away.
It brings me back to the point I always bring up with the Variax. The reason the Variax uses piezos instead of a magnetic pickup is because piezos have a flat, huge broad frequency response. Now, what would you want if you wanted to model pickups and guitar bodies in a modeling guitar? The sound of the strings before it goes through the pickups and body and electronics. what is the closest thing to that? Piezo pickups.
It's why you can't make a humbucker truly sound like a single coil or vice versa, and you especially are going to struggle making a bridge pickup sound like a neck pickup.
I really honor their attempt, but either I'm doing something wrong or it's just not there yet. It's a really smart idea, but for the reasons I've stated above are what will ultimately limit this technology.
I'll try out the amps now. I'm sure those will blow me away.
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- KVRist
- 289 posts since 11 Jul, 2001 from Sweden
Yeah that's pretty cool.A3ntar wrote:You can use pretty much ANY USB key as your dongle, or most other USB devices the program will recognize, like your USB sound card, USB mouse, etc.Flatout wrote:So, do we need some kind of dongle?
1:04 omward.
Pretty cool if you ask me.