Ive just bought a real CS80!!!!!!!!

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

In my dreams......

Muhahahahahahah :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

DS

[Hollowcell]

Synth dreams are a bad sign DS! :lol:

[GothicIndustrial]

DS, you're so full of crap! :D
(I mean that in the nicest possible way)
-Rob

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

DS, you're so full of crap! :D
(I mean that in the nicest possible way)
-Rob

Hehehehheh.........thx fooorrr theeeeee compliment :twisted:

DS 8)

[AvS]

Congratulations! Don't forget to make a demo for us. :)

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

Heheheh

I bought one in my dreams....not real life!!!!!!!

DS

[tranzash]

anyone tried the demo for arturia cs80v? :wink:

[Tomer=Trance]

its impressive but just too heavy,my prossesor can hardly deal with it
its like impossible to use it in a project when runing fx and other soft synths.

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

Tommer, what processor and what speed do you have?

I tried running CS80v and Minimoog V (Just for fun...I hate computer based synthesis!) and it was consistently using 40%+ on my system. I use a P4 1.8ghz 512 meg machine. In a strange way its kinda reasurring that new softsynths are pushing cpu's hard.......it kinda means that they are becoming better.

In my experience, the Arturia softsynths are the most cpu hungry on the market. They are amongst the best sounding softies available....so I guess that has something to do with it. I should imagine in 5-10 years time we will begin to see some truly exceptional pc based softsynths.

However, will it ever replace my analogs mono's.......nope. But will it provide a great source of polyphonic sounds........a definite yes.

Thats the way I think things will go for me. Ill always use true analog mono's for bass and leads, blips and bleeps. But, as far as polyphonic sounds go.....I can quite easily see myself using ever more power software emulations (But I hope they wont all be computer based. I prefer hardware 'softies' such as the Virus or Nord).

Incidently, I had a go on the new Kurzweil VA1 the other day. My immediate reaction was that VA has finally made a leap forward. I kinda felt that VA's have stayed a little stagnent since their inception around '95, '97. The VA1 (Priced very highly btw...as is all Kurzweil gear!), definitely sounds very very cool. Im still not satisfied with the bass response.....but the poly sounds are really becomming something special imho. Amazing pad sounds.....just amazing.

So...I'd say things are looking up for VA actually. Its funny....but alot of u guys have probably always felt like this about VA. For me, its been an incredibly eventful transition from old analog.

DS

[Tomer=Trance]

about the same machine as you DS a 1.7 intel prossesor with 512 sdram.

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

You know....I think as pc based osftsynths get more powerful....its the Macs that will be in a better position to run them.....with their dual processors and shit.

hehe

DS

[AvS]

Heheheh

I bought one in my dreams....not real life!!!!!!!

DS


I realize that...now. :D Doh

[3o3]

with their dual processors and shit.

There are motherboards for PC's with double processors aswell. I don't think macintosh will be better to run software-synthesizers.

I had an macintosh before and i gotta say that it was the worst thing ever, unstable as h*ll. No, no 'bluescreen'-type of crash, but reason for example didn't work properly - and no, i didn't use a warez-version of Reason.

And the processor was maxed out when i had used 3-4 subtrators, 2 samplers and a drummachine.

Never again a macintosh, I'll stick with with a PC instead which is more easy to tweak, fix if anything would break and so on.[/quote]

[Tomer=Trance]

pc loses its value as soon as you step out the store/build it-
a 2000 dollars daw which you just build today will be worth about 20% less in 2 months and every month will lose 5 % more.
on the other hand macs tend to keep their value.

[3o3]

Well, I really don't care about the price dropping off, it's like with synthesizers aswell (VA's of course).

I look like it like this: Even if the price would drop 20% after the purchase, i really don't mind since i am gonna keep it, until it's time to upgrade and which i will use the PC as a server/spare-parts-machine.

I used to think that macintosh was great, until i got my own which didn't quite seem to measure up to my expections from it, and i got help from a Apple-tech to tweak it so i could use Reason in a better way.

But, i don't wanna hear "jada jada jada.. macintosh rules.. jada jada jada" so, this is just my opinion about macintosh - if your computer works well, fine!

[saba]

with their dual processors and shit.

There are motherboards for PC's with double processors aswell. I don't think macintosh will be better to run software-synthesizers.

Indeed, I'm running a dual xeon system, which was only a little more than a high end single processor system.
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[jasedee]

303, Can I ask what model Mac you got???

[3o3]

a G4-something something. I am never good with names. it did run at 800mhz if that could help?

[jasedee]

a G4-something something. I am never good with names. it did run at 800mhz if that could help?
Its a shame that you had such a bad experience with your Macintosh, because I was always a PC user, but upgraded to Mac much to the ridicule of my peers, but I have never looked back since. These new G5 machines are really quite amazing! Especially for audio......

Anyways, if you have a PC specifically designed for audio, they are just as good as the Macs....