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garyb wrote:ok, i spent the day with Holger and Jurgen and i took no pictures.

don't worry, siriusbliss was there and he took some video.

i may take a few pictures when i go back on sunday.

i did take a screenshot of v5 running an XITE on a laptop on vista, which was very smooth, except for an unregistered plugin...

V5%20XITE1.jpg (222.71 KiB) Viewed 7523 times

as to 64bit drivers, if you want them, write a nice letter to S/C. there are a number of issues they are addressing(such as the possible updated automation), and things become a matter of priorities. if they see a strong desire for them, they'll make them.

siriusbliss wrote:OK - I already have pictures, but won't be able to get them uploaded until late Sunday night California time - SORRY
Video won't come until after I capture, render, and upload somewhere - probably not 'til towards the end of next week - SORRY
Gary - you should still take some pictures - including pictures of the Soniccore dudes so that we can thank them for taking on such a daunting project.

re: 64-bit - Holger says that it's 'in the cue' - after other developments, which they have received more requests for (and therefore higher priority) - which I probably can't mention here (since he didn't really mention what they were anyways).
Note: even the RME guys say that 32-bit is totally effective in 64-bit environments with machines running 8-Gig RAM on 64-bit OS's, etc., since it doesn't matter if the plugins/rompler/samplers can effectively use the extra RAM and throughput anyways. They have issues with justifying it at this point in time.

Nevertheless, all I can say is - WOW, what horsepower! You can feel it in the instantaneous loading of large modules, synths, mixers, 'verbs, etc. You can 'feel' the lack of latency, etc. You can 'feel' the 10X DSP horsepower in the DSP's.

The unit looks simple, yet impressive and unobtrusive. Tons of I/O to work with in a stand-alone environment ranging from good mic/line pres in the front-end to all the various I/O output on the back end.

I wanted to open the unit, but it was running, and I didn't want to disrupt it.

My impression is that the unit is basically complete - barring some minor touchups with cables and such, but it's very close.

No - I couldn't get a release date from the team other than 'very soon'.

No I couldn't listen to it inside the cacophony of the convention center - we could barely hear each other talk.

So, that's all I have to report for now. More to come in the next few days.

Greg

p.s. The Xite-1 is IMO one of the standouts at the show, since it is unique amongst the deluge of yet one more F'ing VST synth or other plugin, etc.

p.p.s. The only other standout for me so far is the Moog guitar, which is very cool technically, but two guys at their booth didn't know how to demo it properly (IMO).

p.p.p.s. GaryB gets the award for the scariest hair

Warp69 wrote:Since it's running on Vista - Would you be able to change smaplerate inside the Scope environment or in the Control Panel?

Fluxpod wrote:Solaris Pics.
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2009/01 ... laris.html

oxygenial wrote:The driver model for Vista (and sadly Windows 7) is a huge problem, and I seriously can't see why Microsoft chose to do it this way, where you can't address the hardware directly from your application, without passing through the OS!

Fede wrote:

oxygenial wrote:The driver model for Vista (and sadly Windows 7) is a huge problem, and I seriously can't see why Microsoft chose to do it this way, where you can't address the hardware directly from your application, without passing through the OS!

what about the new wasapi driver?

cheers
Fede

Tau wrote:Wow. Solaris is looking GREAT! Scope 5 is also looking great! Congratulations are in order. All we need now is a realistic release date!

Warp69 wrote:

petal wrote:Tell us about the interest from people at the booth - are "new" people impressed with XITE and Solaris? Do they get it at all?