dante wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:40 am
... the XITE-1D is no longer available. Neither are the UAD solo or duo cards.
... Indicates there's now no return on new Sharc R&D in DAW world.
I guess most is caused by shortage of parts/chips and there is no end in sight.
Companies want the keep their biz alive and move on in directions being still possible.
dante wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:40 am
The viability window for a Scope PCIe card probably passed a decade ago. The march of the M1's continue....
Simply the prefered styles of music and sonic quality needed for these styles changed a lot already much earlier.
For all the EDM crap you don´t really need something like a studio as also not a lot of hardware gear.
When it exists, it´s more or less idealism or simply showup.
I´ve seen producers sitting on my patio in the sun w/ iPad and iPhone, to me demonstrating download of loops and clips within minutes and arranged good (enough) sounding tracks in a heartbeat by using simple apps,- then transfered over to their home-DAW via "we transfer" to do mixes in Logic later in the evening.
I´m talking about pro record company and publishing owner selling these tracks !
And yes, he´s in his 70s already, owns a lot of outboard hardware and real instruments like Rhodes, Clavinet, Wurlitzer,- owns a Leslie 122 and already sold B3, owns vintage preamps and compressors, Protools TDM, Appogee, Logic, ext. MIDI modules, good nearfield monitors etc., etc.,- and is a real good keyboardplayer too.
But it´s all not urgently needed anymore and he´s about selling more and more gear.
Last week he sold his Fender Rhodes for insane money.
In fact, he rented his studio-rooms to others and put all I mentioned above into the living room in his appartment and runs biz successfully from there.
And he told me from artists mixing w/ cans,- no studio monitors at all,- deliver and their stuff sells by streaming and downloads.
It´s different times and it´s all for the sonic quality the internet needs,- it´s in fact for earbuds.
Just only we idealists don´t want to work like that and possibly dislike these styles of music too,- but that´s just only matter of taste and age.
Successful is what sells,- that´s it !
You know, Adam Szabo
https://www.adamszabo.com/ VIPER VSTi (Win only) provides all the EDM sounds you need already,- for EUR 89,- !
And w/ version v1.1.0 now you´re able to import Acess Virus Classic and TI patches.
Not all sound 100% identical or fully work, but most do.
Apple M1 proc speed is fast enough for all this anyway.
But it´s also too expensive when there´s no chance for repairs, user RAM upgrade is no-go and M.2 SSDs are soldered to the mainboard.
Means,- after 3 years and when your expensive extended warrantee expired,- you have to buy all new in case of failure just because the replacement mainboard is almost as expensive as a new machine is.
This is simply what holds me back from buying Apple products since decades.
My Macs are all still PPC and run since the 90s ...
Bud
