Tony Carpenter

Now they got me, the Amek EQ was what I was waiting for, for ages :).

GAS almost got me!!. But, I resisted after adding then deleting Amek from my basket. I don’t need yet more unused plugins..

I had a Roland KB300 amp on a stand. Never could hear it over bloody guitars :). Thank goodness for IEMs these days!!. Which I wear playing my drums too. 
 

Btw, Wakeman still prefers a Roland Fantom X8 for main board recently. I’m selling mine since I don’t gig anymore. 

Great find, added to my account. Thank you.

It’s always sad to see someone dive down this self doubt rabbit hole. And I’m somewhat one of these. What keeps me going recently, last year or so is… Jamulus. I gave up relying on local musicians. Now I have a fairly frequent group of great musicians I play with most days of the week for around 2 hours a day!!. I’ve learned so much on my drums too that I never knew playing all on my own for 19 years prior. Sometimes something entirely new and uncomfortable is what you need. 
 

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Tony

Tell me how it feels in your later life carting a couple of 65lb keyboards in cases in and out of gigs. FYI, I’m a guitarist, keyboardist and drummer. Never carted my own drums but did my drummers with him at gigs and on tour. Other than a big amp rig, guitar is still easier :). Suck it up snowflake lol 

Bit of a yawn fest for those of us with a high UAD DSP count.... oh well.

£1099 Tempting... 

I have 7 and I really see no reason to upgrade even at 99.00.

Basically I’ll be keeping tab over the years I own 5.5, we’ll see. I definitely am saving with iZotopes release model though. 

I looked, thought about it, did I need any.... no, and walked away. I have such amazing willpower.... 😕

I went S1 when I bought my StudioLive series 3 mixer. Definitely no regrets, and I went Sphere because I learned with Izotope too, subs overall are cheaper.  And yes I know I won’t own passed my last full purchase, but that’s not bothering me anymore.

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@Zoearly or late was it lol?. Yes I use a sonnet on my quad card. The satellite isn’t a card. We were curious as to whether it contained a card that was a motherboard or a pcie card.  

@Bapu Here you go, it's been answered!. So, no it's a unique board, shame.

https://uadforum.com/general-discussion/56991-whats-uad-satellite-box-pci-e-card.html

Regards,

Tony

2 minutes ago, Bapu said:

I have 2 Octo TBs for my Mac and 2 Octo USB for my PC and I've never once thought about what they look like internally.

It would only make sense it's a PCI-e card but without the end piece that locks it down to the case.

When/if you do open it up, please let me know (simply for curiosity sake mind you).

 

I'm leaning towards looking Bapu yes, a guy over at UAD said it should be safe to open, just use usual electronic precautions :). I just figured since the way I mounted the Quad card in my Sonnet box was simple maybe they did that to save money, but, having said that, the Satellite is MUCH shallower than the Sonnet box.

Cheers,

Tony

Ok, y'all started this :). As a piano player too, I just had to know... if you have 7 1/2inch spread that is tiny my diminutive wife has that, and I always thought she has tiny hands!! (she has) interesting note about different hand spreads, mine are left 8.7 inches (good for bass end) and right 8.25. However!!!, that isn't going to give you the ability to get serious purchase on the keys, you can basically subtract an inch overall. 

On a side note, when I was in Queensland in the mid 80s, we had a bouncer who's spread would have easily been 13-14 inches, man was an orangutan, I swear!.

Lastly, the Yamaha Montage 7 does not conform to 6.5 inch per octave I think.. or is it just length of keys.... going to google now!. 

Edit: OK Google let me down again.. twice in one day!!!. Anyway, the keys on Montage 7 are 5 1/2 inches long, but the same width and so in fact full 6 1/2 inches between octaves.  I had to measure. You're all welcome :). It's now on google!.

Tony :_)

Hi All,

I've asked over at UAD too, but since we're all a little more communicative over here, thought I'd ask

 
I've asked google, and unbelievable, no one else ever thought to look?, in this day of YouTube show and tell etc. Before anyone says, why not look, I am suspicious of opening a perfectly operating expensive Octo TB2 enclosure for curiosity only. I own a Quad card I bought an external TB3 box for, and I was using it in another room of my studio, about to liberate it and put it in my tower PC. So..... to the meat of the subject, (at last?), Is the Satellite a PCI-e card in a board or just a PCI-e slot basically?. If so, that's coming out and going in PC too!!.

Thanks in advance,

Tony

Ahh another update wanting my money… but, I say no!, this time!!. 

Lol at necroing old threads. Anyway, I’ll jump in Jim mentioned already, while I do run an Uber PC for my studio and still think Core Audio in OSX is far superior, windows 10 does the business very well.

I ran a BBS in the early 90s and ran it on Linux beta testing for Linus in the beta days. I also ran it for my Neverwinter Nights server for a while around 2002-2004. Is It really mainstream yet?. He’ll no!, not for everyone by a long shot. It’s a professional and geeks platform, very small share, end of story. Good luck to you if you want to play with it :). 

I was Soooo tempted by this. Along with my 25.00 voucher it was almost done. Then I came to my senses  

My piggy banks have long been given up... I could never keep one even a week... 

I used to have this, the extender and the C4 pro (rare) all good except for whenever Logic Pro X got an update. I sold them, later bought a Behringer X-Touch which was MUCH cheaper, and runs MUCH more reliable!. Then I went to Studio One Pro, and use a Series 3 Studio Live mixer :). And for the final ease of use added a Faderport2.

No brainer, much easier than VEP!!. And, £26 for me. With discount off JRR.

I wasn't going to spend this month... there goes that LOL... at that price, couldn't resist :).

I think that the model iZotope has for ugrades and how they track your stuff you own is horrible, but, I love all their stuff that I use. And, as I've said before, it's FAR cheaper to sub each year than play the staggered upgrade path they present. If you are using enough and want the latest all the time, obviously :).