Wow I am DSP stricken. Never been a fan of VST reverbs, or Modulation FX. Then I heard certain uses that impressed me. I have acoustic instrument resonant modelling ambiences that simply are incredible. GS3 Orchestra w/ Gigapulse Pro is great for reproducing acoustic instruments and their ambiences. I run those through Scope STM1632 (live ) then use Lexicon Reverbs, and Line 6 Echo Pro Modeler. Recently bought the Nomad Factory Blue Tubes Bundle cause the NFX that come with GS3 Orch. are weak and typically deteriorate the actual sound, IMHO. I have never used a hybrid set-up like this before. I have retired alot of hardware and can say that I am very excited. This is primarily a live rig, but man it sure sounds good. Celmos Tape sim and phasor are used also, but now I have added these great FX and must say it's a great trade between hardware, DSP, and native processing. My newest box uses a P4 Northwood 3GHz CPU and I have juice to spare. But the real advantage is the " SOUND ". My only hardware synths I use live are the XPander, and the SE-1x. Both of these fat bastards mixed w/ Scope synths and the sampler have made my life w/o a road crew quite livable and portable. I take my rack home and practice on the M-Audio KS-88 ES, a little 150 USD controller that allows me to leave my stands and speakers, etc. at the gig. If I'm not socializing much, I run straight home and tweak till my hearts desire.
Scope Rules,
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Vst FX w/ Scope FX w/ Hardware FX.
I haven't heard one Scope device I didn't like. But as far as reverbs go. I prefer the external ones for 2 reasons. 1) they use no DSP, I have programmed Lexicons for 30 years, and can get any sound that I want from them. But I love the 4080L. I believe that Sonic Timeworks made that eh? It sounds like they were trying to model the Lexicon 480L, it was a noble effort.
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I'd almost bet that you wouldn't trust your ears, once you follow MD69's tip... 
whatever sh*t you feed into that Chorus Delay comes out 10 times larger than life. Slack jaw and popping eyes in the audience guaranteed
The devices P100/CD100 and A100/Inverse were developed by Warp69 and are only distributed by SonicTimeworks - as you can easily tell by their ridiculuous price tags.
Unfortunately Warp's efforts didn't find the resonance they deserve, so he's busy with other projects.
Everyone who has (at least one of) his devices (still) hopes that he'll finish the missing hall algorithm one day - the devices were originally announced as a sequence of three.
The only disadvantage is their enormous demand for PCI bandwidth (your chipset is ok), which is unavoidable due to Scope's architecture - the DSPs have to use (a lot of) scratch memory on the mobo.
anyway, all of Warp's devices are among the best that Scope has to offer - check it out
cheers, Tom
whatever sh*t you feed into that Chorus Delay comes out 10 times larger than life. Slack jaw and popping eyes in the audience guaranteed
The devices P100/CD100 and A100/Inverse were developed by Warp69 and are only distributed by SonicTimeworks - as you can easily tell by their ridiculuous price tags.
Unfortunately Warp's efforts didn't find the resonance they deserve, so he's busy with other projects.
Everyone who has (at least one of) his devices (still) hopes that he'll finish the missing hall algorithm one day - the devices were originally announced as a sequence of three.
The only disadvantage is their enormous demand for PCI bandwidth (your chipset is ok), which is unavoidable due to Scope's architecture - the DSPs have to use (a lot of) scratch memory on the mobo.
anyway, all of Warp's devices are among the best that Scope has to offer - check it out
cheers, Tom