I Am An Idiot !!!!!!!

Atomic Marshmallow · Post by **Atomic Marshmallow** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:13 pm

Hello,

I have made recent posts regarding not being able to get Flexor going. Well, I have discovered what the problem is. Flexor resides within Modular II and Modular III. You have to actually run either of them to access (and see) Flexor. I don't know why it didn't occur to me before. The mistake I made was to assume it to be visible as a seperate device under one of the various menus in the Scope environment. I feel like a total idiot !!! I have Flexor going now.

My apologies for bothering you with this "problem" and thanks to all the people who responded and tried to help.

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:47 pm

welcome in the club!

katano · Post by **katano** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:00 pm

Selbsterkenntnis ist der erste Schritt zur Besserung

self-knowledge is the first step to self-improvement

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:42 pm

Atomic Marshmallow wrote:...Well, I have discovered what the problem is. Flexor resides within Modular II and Modular III. You have to actually run either of them to access (and see) Flexor. ...

well, that's what you were told, but if you don't want to read it...

astroman wrote:...it will create a Flexor Folder within your modular modules folder and copy the file ADXFLX or so into the DSP folder.
You do not see anything from Flexor unless you open a Modular window - then it should appear at the leftmost position...

anyway, have fun with it

cheers, Tom
(couldn't resist)

Atomic Marshmallow · Post by **Atomic Marshmallow** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:09 pm

astroman wrote: well, that's what you were told, but if you don't want to read it...

I guess you did say that, but I didn't read it properly. You said:

astroman wrote:
You do not see anything from Flexor unless you open a Modular window - then it should appear at the leftmost position.

I didn't realise that you meant that I actually have to run Modular 2 or 3. But I guess I should have at least opened up Modular rather than assuming it would show as a seperate device.

I am not being defensive by the way, just explaining why I didn't get it.

Anyway, thanks for your help. Very much appreciated!!!!!!!

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:38 am

yes, there is really no need to be defensive - I once asked CW tech support for some details about VDAT (which they even mailed...), while I (better my ignorance) had overlooked it in the SFP manual.

I'm very familiar with this 'quick overlook by reduced concentration powered by increased rush' phenomenon, that's why I made the humorous hint

cheers, tom

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:57 am

Hah - i can beat you all. When i first delved into the world of Pulsar i didn't really understand what i was buying (nor did the salesman). CW's marketing was even more confusing back then than it is now. Anyway i bought a Pulsar2 and a PowerSampler, which was fine except i only bought PowerSampler because i thought you needed that card to run the sampler, not realising that it would just act as extra DSP to the Pulsar2, which already had STS300 - the same sampler. i bought a whole card i didn't need. Duh (slaps forehead).

katano · Post by **katano** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:07 am

but finally, you were happy to have that much dsp's, aren't you?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:40 am

Mr Arkadin wrote:... i bought a whole card i didn't need. Duh (slaps forehead).

I just had slightly more luck (... nothing affordable was available back then), when I 'almost' bought an Adat HD recorder for what VDAT can do - but I was completely unaware of...

I always had this idea it must be something for the real world Adat folks...

this thread could be extended with more 'unsolvable problems' like that

cheers, Tom

Post by **hubird** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:51 am

I once bought me a Pulsar2 card to make music - then I discovered you can just buy ready made music in cd shops!!

katano · Post by **katano** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:54 am

hahaa, laugh of the day *lol*

Post by **hubird** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:05 pm

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:41 pm

NO you're not an idiot !! .. People make mistakes all the time, they just don't always admit it

Post by **hubird** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:49 pm

or admit it but were right yet!

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:57 pm

The same happend when I bought Vinco, I played around over 4 hours and didn`t hear any sounds out of it. I thought "what a shitty vintage synth emulation is this?"

Suddenly I realized that it is not a synth but a compressor and so I stopped sending midi notes to it.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:13 pm

like me when comparing the B2003 to Natives B4 (which I already owned).
First impression was that the CWA version sounded fuller, but I wanted to know exactly, so I stepped through the corresponding presets, A/B ing...
Suddenly, it was the B4's turn, I wondered why I hadn't noticed this great preset before, strange, pretty full tone for a NI device which always have this 'slim' tendency (imho) ... undeniable - this was good, wanted to make a note to remember it - and what do I see ?
I had forgot to switch the mixer channel - it was the B2003, pretending to be a B4

That's what I call a blind test, Tom

Post by **hubird** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:19 pm

hifiboom wrote:The same happend when I bought Vinco, I played around over 4 hours and didn`t hear any sounds out of it. I thought "what a shitty vintage synth emulation is this?"
Suddenly I realized that it is not a synth but a compressor and so I stopped sending midi notes to it.

Veni Vidi Vinco...

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