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Just in case anyone missed the other thread, suggested retail price is $1350 on the Snow.

j2j wrote:

tech44 wrote:

j2j wrote:I am a little worried that in about 10 minutes, everybody and their brother is going to have an Access Virus.

We will have hundreds of thousands of Virus Tracks...

arrg, usually when something becomes this popular, its time has almost run out.

I'm pretty sure this has already happened.

so than there are a few of us on the Waldorf crew huh?

Personally if I was gonna get hardware I would need to get something with more knobs, and/or analog. Kinda defeats the purpose for me to have a 4 knob piece of gear. I do like the Waldorf sound though, yes.

Tarekith wrote:Just in case anyone missed the other thread, suggested retail price is $1350 on the Snow.

so it will be around for what, 1100 on the street.

FuckK that, its too popular, and its too crippled to pay that much.

i will buy a blofeld, and access can blo me...

tech44 wrote:

j2j wrote:

tech44 wrote: I'm pretty sure this has already happened.

so than there are a few of us on the Waldorf crew huh?

Personally if I was gonna get hardware I would need to get something with more knobs, and/or analog. Kinda defeats the purpose for me to have a 4 knob piece of gear. I do like the Waldorf sound though, yes.

I am all about midi controller and computer integration....

thefool wrote:Just found a video on youtube about the Blofeld

Interesting pads it can make. Very! but wondering how good it is at lead sounds.

if you go to the Waldorf website, you can hear sound examples, they sound awesome.

j2j wrote:

Tarekith wrote:Just in case anyone missed the other thread, suggested retail price is $1350 on the Snow.

so it will be around for what, 1100 on the street.

FuckK that, its too popular, and its too crippled to pay that much.

i will buy a blofeld, and access can blo me...

I hope it comes out. These folks that took over Waldorf three years ago sure are taking there good old time doing anything with the company. The only thing I've ever seen were some pretty shots of vapourware.

thomann.de have it listed for 399euros on their site, availability says "shipment to arrive 15.01.200" ...tomorro

http://www.thomann.de/ie/waldorf_blofeld.htm

At $1350, you might as well get a used TI from ebay. That's just stupid pricing.

What I'm most excited about is that with the new OS shipping with this, my current TI will get a 3rd Stereo Out =)

j2j wrote: if you go to the Waldorf website, you can hear sound examples, they sound awesome.

It sounds very violent to me hehe
nice!

aside from the crazy pricing of the snow.

here are some other reasons for buying a TI...

one:

"OS 2.7 furthermore increases the amount of audio streams from the TI into the Virus Control plug-in by 50% and adds input side chaining capabilities. This way, users can send audio from the host sequencer into the Virus' sound engine all digitally, process it with the TI's filters and FX and finally loop it back into the sequencer"

two:

"The new operating system also increases the amount of ROM sounds to 26 banks with 128 patches each (that's, including the RAM banks, a total of nearly 4000 onboard sound patches)"

three:

"Access Music shows a technology preview of Atomizer on the winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Atomizer allows you slice and dice audio in realtime using a MIDI keyboard. Stutter effects were made famous by artists including Aphex Twin, Trentemoeller, Squarepusher, BT and many others. In order to create those effects they either had to chop audio regions by hand or use semi-automatic plug-ins (which don't necessarily give you a great deal of control since they are intended to create random results). Atomizer works in a totally different way — once sync'ed to tempo you can play those slices in realtime, so you can virtually chop up your singer's voice while he's performing or add unique effects to your DJ set. You can record the slicing process into your sequencer and edit it later along with the rest of your song. You can remix in realtime as well, with the modulation wheel becoming an intelligent cross-fader, while the pitch-wheel lets you change the pitch by approximately 4 octaves. And there are tons of effects including sample rate and bit rate reduction algorithms which, again, can be used in realtime and become a part of your performance"

all of these come for free as a TI owner. awesome!!!

wow, this is giving me a nu perspective indeed! thank you, rocket man...thank you.

i saw what you there man. veerryyyy clever.

nuperspective wrote:
"Access Music shows a technology preview of Atomizer on the winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Atomizer allows you slice and dice audio in realtime using a MIDI keyboard. Stutter effects were made famous by artists including Aphex Twin, Trentemoeller, Squarepusher, BT and many others. In order to create those effects they either had to chop audio regions by hand or use semi-automatic plug-ins (which don't necessarily give you a great deal of control since they are intended to create random results). Atomizer works in a totally different way — once sync'ed to tempo you can play those slices in realtime, so you can virtually chop up your singer's voice while he's performing or add unique effects to your DJ set. You can record the slicing process into your sequencer and edit it later along with the rest of your song. You can remix in realtime as well, with the modulation wheel becoming an intelligent cross-fader, while the pitch-wheel lets you change the pitch by approximately 4 octaves. And there are tons of effects including sample rate and bit rate reduction algorithms which, again, can be used in realtime and become a part of your performance"

all of these come for free as a TI owner. awesome!!!

Roland V-Synth

steve-o wrote:

nuperspective wrote:
"Access Music shows a technology preview of Atomizer on the winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Atomizer allows you slice and dice audio in realtime using a MIDI keyboard. Stutter effects were made famous by artists including Aphex Twin, Trentemoeller, Squarepusher, BT and many others. In order to create those effects they either had to chop audio regions by hand or use semi-automatic plug-ins (which don't necessarily give you a great deal of control since they are intended to create random results). Atomizer works in a totally different way — once sync'ed to tempo you can play those slices in realtime, so you can virtually chop up your singer's voice while he's performing or add unique effects to your DJ set. You can record the slicing process into your sequencer and edit it later along with the rest of your song. You can remix in realtime as well, with the modulation wheel becoming an intelligent cross-fader, while the pitch-wheel lets you change the pitch by approximately 4 octaves. And there are tons of effects including sample rate and bit rate reduction algorithms which, again, can be used in realtime and become a part of your performance"

all of these come for free as a TI owner. awesome!!!

Roland V-Synth

exactly, there is always another option. Anyways, IMHO, there are just too many with a Virus now. I couldn't do it I think.

I mean, become yet another electronic musician with an access virus. HA it may be the best synth the world has ever seen..... maybe...

but really... put me down for the waldorf sound... I reckon I will go there.

cheers