synthmeister

Below is a recent interview with some insight into RME development from lead engineer. Interestingly, RME are not looking to ThunderBolt for future development so will keep focused on USB for consumer goods. IIRC, RME said ThunderBolt required a lot of engineering hours and did not significantly outperform their USB products.

I have the BabyFace Pro and have used it for years live playing of VIs on an old laptop. This gets excellent measured performance in the GearSlutz interface database; the best PCIe cards don't perform that much better in the real world. RME software is rock solid. Low latency performance is superb. TotalMix is a nice bonus. The "box" and physical buttons and dial all are very high quality. Only complaints I ever see on these relate to pricing.

There are some beautiful sounds in that video. What is PadShop? Does NI have something similar? I thought Kontakt and HALion were enough lol.

thanks!

This will help a lot of creative types. Strong props to Avid. Thank you.

The marketing is a bit too frequent for me. YMMV

Great.

I suppose Behringer will face some headwinds in the crowded DAW market. . .

That looks like a good price.

Soundcloud "Ibiza Chill"tracks are sublime. Just go to the Steinberg site now to hear the music. Do it. I don't know developer Chris St’Aubyn from a hole in the wall but his synth VI has some beautiful sounds. This runs on free Halion SE.

I suppose other stressful, high-hour careers have similar issues, including: medicine, law, etc. Media has the added challenge of constantly being creative whilst "under pressure" which can't be a good combination. On the other hand, we are not saving any lives lol.

Don't see hardware with 90% discount very often. Posted list price is $699.

I did the same a while back. There was an incredible deal on a hollow-body guitar that I missed. But the volume of emails for tuners, cables, mic stands was just not worth the hassle.

That is a nice felt upright option and can't beat the price. Check out his video. He included 2 dynamic layers; sound files for forte layer is included also but he couldn't mix that convincingly so is happy for someone to get those 3rd layers working.

Does a competitive cross grade require one to disable the other product (e.g. Omnisphere) or does buyer just get the discount if he or she can show competitive license?

Maybe a few decades late. Still excited to see innovation the new protocol will catalyze. . .

Edit - CGR at vi-control recently picked up some Neo Pianos and was favourably impressed. https://vi-control.net/community/threads/2020-namm-show-sale-event-save-up-to-71-on-instruments-and-effect-plugins.89278/#post-4502768

I see your point. But APD is noting the full list price for the individual pianos as $475. The package currently has a list price of $399. I believe that the "Originally $475" phrasing is correct. For full transparency, I suppose APD could add some phrase to the effect that these were originally listed at $475 when purchased separately. And currently the package is listed discounted at $399. I don't recall that $399 package being offered when Concert Grand was released but my memory could be wrong. There is a database of VI pianos at PianoWorld with prices; I don't see that package was offered when the database was populated (summer 2018). http://forum.pianoworld.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2752919/digital-piano-master-sticky-thread.html I see both approaches to VI advertising and searching prices online is effortless. So I personally don't see anything nefarious. (EDIT - but also would prefer that APD note the package is currently listed at $399).

Too funny. Despite the spelling ambiguity, this is a good sounding piano. EDIT - apologies for the spelling drama which are my fault rather than @cclarry 's fault.

There are recent demos on youtube of the Sampletekk pianos. Just note there are several versions of these pianos available with similar names, which is a bit confusing. But at $7 per piano, there is not much downside.

This $499 upgrade deal is back on at the link above by @cclarry

The guys at PianoWorld noted that the Black and White pianos were originally recorded c.2005, although the Black was reworked c.2012

I have the XPS 9550 and 9560. They are OK for audio IMHO but not the very best. Took Dell over a year to sort out the 9550. The newer XPS laptops are very similar but I see DPC latency performance is a lot worse on internet posts.

I'm installing a new ssd in my laptop which (I thought) was well organised with very few files to deal with. Three weeks later, I'm still organising and haven't installed the new ssd yet. Almost ready to begin clean install lol.

I put Windows and speed-critical programs on the nvme drive. Media files, fun programs, and some samples go to SATA. For general consumer tasks, I don't think you will notice any difference in speeds between SATA and nvme SSDs (except benchmarking lol and some video work). YMMV. But for real time audio with OS activity going on all the time, the added performance of nvme might mean fewer dropouts. Also, the nvme drives come in different flavours. QLC is dirt cheap and performs well for most tasks. Most users won't notice a difference with the uber expensive enterprise class drives https://www.howtogeek.com/444787/multi-layer-ssds-what-are-slc-mlc-tlc-qlc-and-mlc/ A couple of years ago I did a lot of testing of real-time huge VIs and found identical performance between the Samsung EVO850 SATA SSD and a few of their Pro enterprise nvme drives. The nvme drives loaded windows and the VI a bit slower but latency/audio dropout performance seemed identical.