Hi !
This is a very interesting point and difficult to answer too, but I will try to answer.
On 2006-05-09 11:50, scope4live wrote:
I could use this to play back Akai samples by routing it to my STM1632 and pulling samples from an Akai, WAV. pool. Is it really that simple?
You seem to describe a project where an STS sampler would fit better. With wave10, it is a different process.
First, there is no "pool" in the device. You drag-n-drop wave and akai samples from the Scope browser (navigating your hard disks), into one of the 10 slots (all on the same midi channel). You can memorize samples in the main presets or "kit only" presets, but it is not exatly a pool because it saves the samples for each slot, not individually (it saves "kits").
In the project you describe, you do not need a mixer (unless you "want to"): Wave10 has mixer features with gain/eq/fx/aux sections, and you would mainly use the Main Outputs (and the dry outputs). Using the independant outputs for each sample is more for recording into many audio tracks than sending to another mixer.
Then you would use some editing features (vca, filter) and the mix features (eq/fx/gain/aux) to apply effects. It is also midi and remote controllable like most other scope devices.
A small diagram would help me understand.
There are 2 useful pics on the Wave10 page of
http://www.spacef.com : 1. a diagram of the audio path (just under the title "intro", 2. a pic of possible connections (in the "aux" section). (the asio sources could be tracks recorded from the Direct/dry outputs of wave10, that you resend to the aux sections).
I currently use Solaris 4.1, and B2003, and the GSIF 8-out driver. If I could get this to work I will use it to supplement GS3 samples w/o drain on CPU, only DSP resources. I'm running DSP's @ 50% w/ 2 x 15 DSP. My Giga app. is running at about 80-95 % of CPU cycles, so this might really help out. My second choice is to drag along another Scope box w/ 2 x 6 DSP cards. I would like to avoid this if at all possible.
Comparing GS and Wave10 seems a very ambitious challenge to me
. It is very different: wave10 can remind me of those 80's drum boxes that were just sample players with a few editing features and a sequencer. Some features were inspired by my old EPS16+, but it is far from allowing things like multiinstruments and sophisticated sound banks. It is rawer, and i think funnier to play with.
I cannot really say anything about the cohabitation of both apps in extreme conditions : wave10 is not really "light". It can be sensible to the computer work load as it exchanges info with the pc to play the samples (midi can experience some timing problems in case of bottleneck in the pci bus).
Its advantages are more on the simplicity of the process of hearing a sample (drag-n-drop, play, hear) and having fun mixing 10 samples together with the included mixer/aux features. It might answer a need of "not wanting" to use a complicated app for simple things. The abitility to use spacef/rd filters is also an interesting aspect...
I do not know if all this answers the questions, but i hope it helps. In fact what is important to understand is that it has complete "mixer/aux" features, that it can can be automated and has some included modulations.
Best regards
Mehdi
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