Me as a scope user for years, i have to admit that despite the fact that scope does not move very fast according to updates and other staff like, bug fixes etc..., it is just GREAT!!!
there is much of discussion that could take place here..., i will say three words.
1. great sound of synths and effects...(the 1st a little higher)
2. really great mixing environment. Cannot be compared to any other. the STM mixer is the heart of the system. Very well designed and day by day becomes more and more necessary for me. It takes years to learn STM in depth and the fact that scope is the same for years, in that case... helps to be able to learn it well.
Last edited by ARCADIOS on Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
For me, the Scope Music Production Environment is the best solution on the market.
Why ?
It glues your studio together, extern gear, intern DAW stuff. And by that, it always keeps you a door open for experiments.
When you need inspirations, a new sound, synth, effect, you can build it.
Definitely, with scope you get top gear, that spares you lot of money, if you compare the possibilities you get with scope to dedicated hardware
you would have to buy to get the same results, mixer, synths, effects, a huge modular system... it's unbeatable.
The only thing I would like to see S|C going in nowadays. Please document your ideas, devices, with manuals.
I often feel like, we have a great thing, buy it and see how far you can get and see what it is, for yourself...
I really would like to know, what is the idea behind this module in the modular, what it does.
How SDK is structured, where is my SDK manual 5.1 ...... Learning by doing is fine for me but also very time consuming....
And it is not very professional to let your costumers be fed but not be involved and fascinated, am I wrong?
You are right but if we can help S|C with the documentation ourselves it frees up thier resources to stay alive & retain / gain market share with new developments.
Not everyone wants to take time out from music making to do this, but anyone who does is welcome to throw new / raw material my way for ScopeRise.
This thread for example could be the basis for a big user testimonial article about Scope. In fact, we could call it 'Scope Philosophy' and try to make it philosophical - like that old 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' book. On one level this book deals with two types of personalities - those that just wants things to work without understanding the inner workings vs those that want to delve deeper.
EG does Scope cater for both, or is the routing window really 'too complicated' ?
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Yep, I wish I could contribute more but time is short and money has be be earn to just do a bit into the right direction, as always.
I think s|c has done good decisions in the past and they are on the right track ,thank you.
Future will be a good one with scope, I am sure nice things will come up.
Just combine our all strengths and we will all be fine.
Scope is as complete as a Piano. It's meant to be used by someone who wants to compose music and mix instead of wasting time updating. Chopin and Debussey had a single ax, the Piano. They never cryed about the little slightly out of tune upper E5, or about how the pedals squeaked.
You can either make music, or make excuses.
Scope is useful for those who aren't distracted by non musical issues.
the only thing i noticed is that when i play guitar thru asio and guitar rig, even with 6 ms latency, i feel the delay. i do not notice it when i play VST synths, but perhaps is because i'm a guitarist and not a keyboardist and i have a different feeling with my guitar.
but i do not notice it if i use dynatube.
so, faster asio driver with lower latency could make SFP even better!
Actually, I do not find any fun in using a mouse to make music.
For me the hardware-like behaviour of scope systems is what I prefer.
Even when interconnecting several scope system I didn't noticed any delay.
To me, the routing windows is the best way to display the signal routing inside and to the outside of the system. It is mainly hardware like (In, outs ...)
But the most important is the way the plugs sound.
The amount of synth, FX and mixer on offer is just great though one would always miss some special elements.
As a synth freak, having a minimoog, a Prophet 5, a Prophet VS and an Odyssey under the same hood is tremendous.
And the modular is just something marvellous to add to the others.
With the Xite-1, it is now harder to reach the DSP limit.
