FP8 VP (6M+8S Fat Mixer)
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- 7 dsp (when full on), 10 dsp advised minimum, 1 scope board or more recommended
- Valve Mixer Channels : 6 Mono and 8 Stereo "Fat" inputs (on 22 channels)
- static dsp load/ on same dsp (advanced mixer/phase architecture, loads compact on dsp (see pic below)
- Aux : 3 , stereo, crossfadable (1-to-2-to-3)
- Modulable: yes, external modulators, internal mod source/gain.
- "VP": means valves and pre-ins.

It takes approximately the same DSP as the FB5 (full on).

The sound is worth it. The Fat also exists as an insert. Difference ? none, except that on the Fat Valve mixers, the Fats are loaded once and for all at the begining of the project, making them available whenever and forever.
The FB5 also exists with Rotary faders (same curve as faders, with 0dB at 70 % approx).

FB5 "fader" is a special "live" edition (giant faders/vus).
- By comparison the FP10 (no valve) take barely 3 dsps (full on).
- Recommended 6 dsp (to put a few effects!) but should load on a luna.
- The FP8 (no valve) takes approximately the same as the FP10 (you may have seen it since july on spacef.com).
- There is no "FP" version of the FB5.
- The FP versions have an insert slot instead of the fat.
F: means FAT
P: pre-inserts
FP: means with a pre-insert special to load "fat" effect, also the generic name of the collection.
5/8/10: refers to the number of stereo channels. the more stereo, the less mono (5: 5 stereo+8 mono, 8:8 stereo+6 mono, 10: 10 stereo+6 mono).
For the rest of the features it is more or less the same as MixSat C2 (build with Mc2 core (which is basically an insert+ gain, with some modifications).
So, my question is :
Is 7 dsp enough ?
Is dsp allocation really useful !!

