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Originally Posted by oblivion
Access-music says that USB 2 would increase the cost very much, but it is not true! I have compared the prices USB1.1 and USB2 chips and it is not a big difference in price.
I think all the users should go together and demand that Access-music once for all take this serious and replace USB1.1 to USB2 or Firewire with no cost.
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In my case, I am simply going to see what happens with the next generation of Virus synths. In my mind they are going to have to solve it sooner or later, because soft synths now provide a viable alternative. The difference in sound is often undetectable in a mix, and if a hardware synth like the TI2 is too much of a pain to produce with, people will stick with software for the sake of workflow productivity (that's the boat I'm in anyway).
Supposedly the hardware on the TI2 does support USB2, but the driver is only pushing at 1.1 speeds. I'm not sure how this would benefit them, maybe in the sense that if they really opened up the pipeline and gave more than 3 USB outs, they might have the perception that they would cannibalize their own business since nobody would need more than a single Virus, and this gives them a way to potentially sell 2 or 3 units to a musician?
Either way I don't think the cost of the chips themselves are what they mean by additional cost of USB 2.0... there is a lot more with regard to QA that goes into any product where performance is increased (generally speaking)... personally in this case, like you I do not completely buy it as an excuse and suspect something else.
Anyway, there is always powercore to consider, which I assume this is not as much of an issue with. But the moment I got a Core i7 for a CPU, and around the same time FLStudio was modified to make better use of multithreading, the CPU limit was greatly raised for me, so I have no real problems with polyphony, etc. And there are some softsynths that I think sound comparable to a Virus these days.
How will Access compete if they don't fix the issues? I don't know the answer, maybe they simply won't be around in 5-10 years.