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kensuguro wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 16, 2019 6:36 am

WHOA!! Thanks astroman! I haven't heard these in 5-6 years!

you're welcome, Ken - it's just a tiny compensation for all the great ideas and music you shared over all these years
(in fact I only had it on that particular CD, which survived by pure chance...)

yes, that's a reasonable decision :) That transformers story was a rare exception, though and only driven by plain desperation: drove me nuts that it soundded so great with headphones on and none of this magic could be recorded ??? The Pikatrons were a cheap purchase (spares from another project) an...

probably refers to this post... ages ago
http://forums.scopeusers.com/viewtopic. ... and#p33966
at least there's a list of mp3 filenames
I remember some CDs in a box labeled 'planetz' as candidats... will look... found them, see below
(impressive work)

For myself Minimax is a single mono voice without effects, never used it poly or with those bells and whistles...
and Earinger is totally out of bounds

The A16 Ultra features 16 converters that are all synced to the same clock signal. You can set sensitivity and output level per channel. A balanced studio setup will deliver a better signal to noise ratio and prevent interference between devices. You may need to balance external devices by transform...

I'd rather suspect the S/TDM connection
iirc you live on the coast of Croatia, salty air is nice to breathe, but quite aggressive to metal components
did you check the offending Pulsar 2 as the only card ?

Vocodizer is one of the best live vocoders and very close to top analog gear in this domain (imho) :8 You can mix it with your 'regular' voice and achieve some harmonic effect, but the modulated wave heritage will always be obvious. For vocal harmonization you need formant shifting added to the pitc...

that was a neat explanation @valis

It's probably the access to controls and how they act/interact on the VCS surface. I just switched to the iVCS3 (as I'm typing on the tablet) and within minutes I had something similiar to the Pink Floyd sequence running and could dial it into a Canned Heat like Blues Shuffle just by osc3 slipped in...

I've got an original CD on the Native Instruments B4 (first version) that actually got only a short test use.
Bought my Pulsar One soon after and never needed the B4
Don't think it's worth selling, so you can have it or trade something or whatever...

why not get a 2nd hand Pulsar/Scope card and plug it into your live rig ? (unless the latter is a laptop...)

yes, that's the one I had in mind... but I never compared the two...

there is a modular patch called Synthi (or similiar) based on the architecture of the VCS3. I like the iPad version a lot, which captures the bizarre internals of the thing in a well respected way. (and recently got a significant update of the filter) It's one of the best synth apps in IOS, a consta...

Nice summary
Tbh the only VSTs I use on a regular base are the Vahallas plus (non-VST) SAW Studio Reverb and Levelizer.

yes, it's about those caps you marked, but the 2 right above may be considered as well. (in the old design those were a row of 4 at the very bottom) You may inspect the solder pads with a magnifier glas for cracks, as none of them has fallen off yet. There may be leakage at the bottom (which is invi...

I guess one of the bottom 2 left of the voltage regulator (bottom right of the board) fell off.
(had the same error with my Pulsar One)

If Adat isn't available, analog pathes can be very useful with software synths from a bunch of systems ;) I have Scope, PT TDM, a MacMini G4 and 2 iPads as generators/processors. But there's also some hardware (TX-7, Kawai XD-5, Lexicon Vortex, Intellifex, Boss ME-5 pedal) that's cool to colaborate ...

iirc PCI latency timer defines the maximum amount of clock cycles that a card can claim the bus for itself and lock out other cards. Default values are usually ok and it's not even relevant if you fill all your PCI slots with Scope cards. (in contrary to running a PCI Raid controller on the same bus...

It just entered my mind (never checked it myself): if you add Masterverbs, the Async load in the DSP meter should increase with every item added (it's about stuff that travels between PCI bus and computer memory within a certain time frame) So if that figure doesn't increase anymore, only the contro...

I don't know how Masterverbs perform at insert position - they may not be 'engaged' at all while zhe channel is inactive. The usual test is to just load them into the project and they are activated even without anything connected to them. But that test can be misleading (you can load Masterverb afte...