Does anybody already received the Box with EIC?

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:48 pm

Does anybody already received the Box with EIC?
How it sounds?
Are EIC worth the price?
Can you post some example?

too many questions...

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:29 am

kung fu just got it

i just ordered it, can report later.

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:20 am

longjohns wrote:kung fu just got it

i just ordered it, can report later.

Ok, let's keep this up.

Sir Maybe · Post by **Sir Maybe** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:34 am

Got it two days ago...

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:02 am

Sir Maybe wrote:Got it two days ago...

...And... What's your say about EIC?

lummux · Post by **lummux** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:03 pm

I've tried one or two EIC Live packs briefly.

So far, my opinion is that they sound fantastic, but I can't seem to get the Grand Piano to play very well, sometimes some of the notes play late. Seems OK with the other packs I have tried though.

Currently trying to figure out how to take off the individual instruments that I don't need, cos the whole thing is a space hog.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:07 pm

yes i'm worried about that. i'm probably going to have to get a new drive in order to install it

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:23 pm

lummux wrote:I've tried one or two EIC Live packs briefly.

So far, my opinion is that they sound fantastic, but I can't seem to get the Grand Piano to play very well, sometimes some of the notes play late. Seems OK with the other packs I have tried though.

Currently trying to figure out how to take off the individual instruments that I don't need, cos the whole thing is a space hog.

With all this organized samples by note and velocity does it resemble hard disk samples playing like Steinsberg's The Grand more than a CPU generated sound?
In my opinion it shouldn't be a CPU hog, am I right?

- Best
- Pasha

zenzee · Post by **zenzee** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:13 pm

Hi,

it certainly is no cpu hog. Even on my 800MHz ibook it runs under 2 percent.

/\
Vincent

chrs · Post by **chrs** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:26 pm

just got mine in the mail yesterday. playing around today

Lynch · Post by **Lynch** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:40 pm

could anybody post some examples,please??

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:46 pm

I went for the download version...fair enough i lose the hard copy manual and stickers, but i just dont think i would have used the samples n sounds...But Live 6 - rocks to the max

lummux · Post by **lummux** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:56 pm

No CPU issues, CPU monitor seems stable, but performance seems a bit poor

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:34 am

lummux wrote:No CPU issues, CPU monitor seems stable, but performance seems a bit poor

What do you mean by performance?
Latency might be high due to hard disk seek/read time.
I have some doubts about Hard Disk based sampling because
today dual core CPUs are powerful enough to generate sounds on the fly, but even SATA 5400rpm HDD (stock on most machines today) can be taxed especially during recording while playing back many tracks with EICs.
I think the best should be an HDD with samples, an HDD with Projects, like it was in the old days. Any comment?

lummux · Post by **lummux** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:29 am

It does seem to be the HDD that's causing the bottleneck. It's a 7200rpm SATA though, so it should be OK surely?

Like I said, I've not played around with it much yet (I was at The England match yesterday, waste of bloody tme that was), but I recall I had performance issues with Grand Piano, Grand Piano Lite and Grand Piano Ultra Lite too.

Will hopefully get a chance to play with it more today