jdieks wrote:lagoausente wrote:voidar wrote:
why would you want convolutions if you can remake the original algo's with enough power?
convolutions are static... real algo's arn't.
Static is relative, don´t you think? Since you can load any impulse in a convolution soft it opens a wide range of posibilities, not only reverb, but also impulses from a guitar amp cabinet, a hardware compressor, or anything you like. The good point is that there is a lot of impulses out there of many spaces, devices etc etc, and most free, and even you can make your own impulses and share it. So from this point of view is not very static, otherwise it´s very open.
I haver read that native convolution soft sounds worse than some dedicated hardware out there. Why not exploit all the posbilities? It´s a nice dsp hardware very promising. Many guys don´t need such power, don´t need many things, true, but since this devices it´s not finally developed yet I think it´s time to SC can tune it in the best direction.
Today, RAM is no so expensive, and maybe in the future SC may want to develop a sampler that can load big Gigs, that would attract many guys.
The Xite-1 has near all the posibilities of a pro Studio in a little 1u rack, so why not put there "all them" ? Giga, Synths, mixing, convolution, routing... just all.
That would be the best marketing avaible, and if Xite-1 could do on DSP all a computer can do on Native, there would be much reasons to go from Native to Xite-1, and no reason to not go (more if they sell a lower price version).
Since my point of view, it´s better to develop without any knock bottle, and time will tell if finally exploit all or not, but the best is that there is no "but" at all.
In the other hand, I have seen some photos of the first Pulsar card prototyes in a thread some week ago. Some of those prototypes had RAM slot. So they have already done it! , and so they know how to develop it and make it work, and so why not put 2 or 3 of this slots. They could sell it without the RAM, as an option of upgrade, so the cost would be the same, and if anybody or the future make the needing of them, who wants, just buy some RAM at put it on the slots. Why not?
I have no knowledge about the posibilities that brings the chips own memory so can´t tell, but anyway the RAM would be a good point for loading GIGs in the future. It seems not very logical such amount of data traveling to and from the PC, just because using the RAM on the PC.
And in the other hand, you may want the PC ram free for any other uses.