Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) support. Any News?

Still on course for the end of the month.

There is a possibility of about a week's delay to incorporate some late breaking improvements.

 There will be an OS update to support the new drivers, but it will not have significant extra functionality.

What would you be looking for in a new OS ?

 Nomad

SP2016 verbs are a secret even to us! You can try any mid size verb without any modulation…as a rough start….

Verbs for pizzicato…. the trick here is to have short (few ms.) or no predelay and a moderate size, to avoid hearing reflections in the tail. Couple of seconds decay…..you can try many verbs on your unit.

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 Ok…so try these steps:

-if the verb preset offers diffusion and reverb, cut the verb level to lowest setting and only tweak diffusion. Many reverbs have diffusion in series AND parallel to verb, so cutting the verb will still make you hear the room. If diffusion is only in series to verb, you'll hear nothing…then raise verb level and lower its decay to about 0.1 sec. Notice how diffusion size makes the walls closer or more distant and diffusion itself will smear reflections or make them distinctly audible, provided some generous milliseconds settings for the diffusor delays.

Once the room is up to your liking…. move on to the verb! Add decay amount just about your taste. Verb size can make the ambience wider/bigger or smaller…like stretching the reverberant space about the audio source.

Last..BUT VERY important is eq!  Long time ago some quality researches in natural reverberant spaces supported the evidence of no frequency above 4000 Hz in a verb. You can try this…or you can try anything else you may like, depending on what you feed to the verb. Cutting some low end may help with bass_ish sources and pianos.

After years of work with these structures I have come to the conclusion that there is no verb if diffusors are not properly and realistic_ally tweaked. That's where the space is made.

As Sun Ra used to say: "SPACE IS THE PLACE!"

Tweak on, man!

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 Ok! All of tis is already in your H8000, Nomad.

I created a few banks (w/lots of presets in them) just for this. check Bank 10 DUAL MACHINES and Bank 32 MULTIPLE MACHINES.

The first has presets with 2 stereo FX in each. These are very complete and extended fx, not just…a chorus!

The second bank has presets with 3 or 4 or 2 stereo and 2 mono fx in each.

Given the proper routing and interface with your recording rig…you got it!

Then…if you set a series routing in the H8000, you can load any 2 of these presets (unless they are monolithic!!!) and have a series processing of A > B.

To create a MACRO, that is a ROUTING+2 PRESETS loaded at the same time, you can first create and store your Routing(s), then load one you need, load the presets you like…THEN store a new SETUP. The unit will ask you if you want to store the 2 presets too..to be reloaded when the SETUP is recalled.

Isn't this a style of life?

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Yeah! That's something we discussed long time ago.

It would take a new architecture (and probably platform) with 4DSPs, to keep fx size and quality as they are now. Having then SLOTS where one could load any of these single FX would make the final trick. It's definitely a very useful and quickway to work, I agree.

Ah the future!

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Italo,

thanks a lot for sharing your tips on reverb design! Maybe we should compile them to some document. I'd like to send a reverb based on nested all-pass filters. It's called "Gardener reverb" – but maybe the H-8000 has it already.. 🙁

Regards,
Yannis

 Reverb tweaking <> Reverb design

2 very different things!

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Was it not the way the Ensoniq DSP4 was working?
You had different possible scenarios of inputs/outputs, size of FX, signal routing (series/parallel) and choose anything from the preset library that fit your need.

 Yes…BUT there are a number of BIG differences:

using multiple FX slots severly impact/diminishes the size and quality of fx on the DP4.

Eventide uses a true open platform, so each FX is a dynamic entity in terms of amount of DSP and System resources used by it. To really keep quality at max, without compromise and "shrunk_down" fx versions, you'd have to use slots that correspond to DSPs.

The point is that if today you like 4 of those awesome presets in your H8000, having each one a big fx, you need a processor w/4 DSPs to make them run at the same time.

Of course we could pre_cook a number of smaller/simpler fx to stuff wherever they are needed…but I have a feeling it's not really what you, folks, are after when thinking Eventide, right?

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I think you are right, it's not what we may be looking after when we think Eventide… but I believe it could be useful though… building up tracks with "lower quality" FX that still give a clear idea of what it's gonna sound like at final stage… then when it's time for bouncing we can use the full DSP power for each single track, one at a time. I believe that is something I'd be using quite often.

 What about "building up tracks" WITH the same quality as you have now?

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That would work if the takes are final. In my case, when I build up a sequence/song, I keep editing my MIDI tracks all the time. Having to bounce the tracks again every time I make a change would be a real pain. But maybe you were thinking of another way to make it possible?

 It will ask you after you press SAVE. Works fine here.

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David

are you sure you are on the SETUP area instead of ROUTING?

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