cortone wrote:
... I don't doubt that the DRAM chips are present in the system!
... The size of the chips is in question, and even that is really just an "academic" question.
jksuperstar confirmed existence of RAM chips in XITE and mentioned "documentation from Holger way back" above,- so I´m pretty sure the "new" SHARC DSPs inside XITE theoretically can adress 32 megabytes each which results in 12x32= 384MB.
I never had a different info and when I mentioned in earlier threads/earlier posts, for sure it didn´t came out of the blue as also not was pure phantasy.
cortone wrote:
It's disappointing to learn that V6 has been scrapped, but I don't doubt that work will continue. A V5.2 that addresses the few issues that we have would be great, and maybe a good intermediate goal.
We should differentiate between XITE boxes as pieces of hardware and the SCOPE environment software as well as the devices.
Xite-1 owners got 2 good mic-pres, hiZ Ins and stereo analog I/Os w/ good converters, AES/EBU and ZLink I/Os and there´s the XTDM bus, not being in use today but it´s there for future expansions.
The latter tells me they had something in mind w/ the box and might not come up w/ anything comparable soon making XITE-1 obsolete and discontinued gear.
It´s the heart of the S|C DSP system and also SCOPE 5.1, as the environment you need, works in both 32 & 64Bit systems.
You also get a ton of DSP chips inside XITE-1, much more than you´ll find in any UAD rackmount/desktop device or on any of the UAD cards.
You can run XITE boxes w/ almost any if not every modern computer mobo and chipset out there which offers at least 1 PCIe slot.
Put a Z97 miniITX mobo in a ATX- "beauty case", add any Intel i5 /i7, 2 hardrives or 1 SSD and 1 HDD,- have XITE-1 w/ ventilation panel above, an additional AD/DA (for more I/O channels) and some powerconditioner/USV in a rack,- and the result is a cool mobile recording facility together w/ any DAW application good enough for tracking.
You can mix and master w/ it as well and the CPU overhead lets you run native plugins in addition.
All the ASIO s##t, the hardware audio and MIDI I/Os works flawlessly w/ SCOPE/XITE and most stock devices delivered work too.
You also get low latency and wehn not working w/ ASIO it´s almos NO latency.
I tell you... step sequencers and arpeggiators, I don´t need ´em at all, not on XITE and not on PCI cards.
These are tools for people who cannot play, as almost every native plugin and DAW software is out there.
Software developers NEED the market of non- playing but music-programming users.
I myself, I don´t use about 90% of any features and content coming w/ today´s DAW software apps and when a handfull of S|C SCOPE devices is not working propperly in 64Bit or at all, I´d use other devices like freeware VST step sequencer and/or arpeggiator.
They don´t make any sound, trigger only.
We discussed the samplers already.
No one in the audio world urgently needs 64Bit system, no audio signal dynamics needs that,- it´s all about the system RAM size and because Win and Mac OS moves on and try force you upgrading.
I´m still fine w/ XP 32Bit for audio and MIDI and music won´t become better w/ 64Bit as long as you don´t do big film scoring.
I don´t.
Yes, we have some minor bugs also in SCOPE 5.1 32Bit because devices come from former Creamware times, but point me to any VST/AU plugin out there being 100% bug free please.
Software is NEVER bug free.
For me the hardest issue is the actual existing MIDI preset system preventing assignment of all the MIDI CCs necessary for me in a project and in devices once, then forget and recall reliable every time I launch a project.
I tried the MIDI, controlling several SCOPE synths simultaneously w/ my Kurzweil PC3,- it works great, but next day SCOPE "forgot" most of the assignments I did the day before and saved.
It´s time consuming re-doing CC assignments in the studio but it´s doable, in a live gigging situation w/ setup under time pressure, it´s impossible.
Not to forget to mention you´d have to notate all you did day before to redo it next day.
That´s unacceptable IMO.
When S|C would be able to improve that, I´d be really happy because as a keyboardist I´d go out w/ the Xbox as a musical instrument and play.
I hope for that happens.
Bud