raymangold wrote:Latency issues occur in DAWs if you're not using ASIO-compliant hardware (i.e. integrated realtek audio which should never be used for audio production). Reason is a slightly different animal since it uses 'ReWire', although the ReDrum software is quite flexible-- I prefer superior drummer but it's a decent contender.
Didn't get on with Reason either. My hardware is ASIO compliant and is using ASIO drivers. It doesn't matter anyway, as Cake 9 can pretty much map and control everything I have properly right out of the box, plus I have the .INS files and a bunch of .SYX files for everything else. Probably does help that some of the software I use was written for Win16 and doesn't play well, if at all, under Windows NT. Linux support is non-existent too, but I could probably move to an Atari ST if I wanted to be really awkward.
Did you ever see the Casio XW-G1? Take a look if you haven't:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJZVnfahuw
(I'm not a Casio fan as I have predisposition to Moog, ARP, Yamaha and Roland, but thought it had some neat sounds)
Yeah, my friend has the XW-P1 which I keep meaning to try and borrow. Partly so I can do a proper demo instead of this bum note tapping BS that seem to do so well on YouTube, at least this guy doesn't totally cheap out on it. Moog? ARP? That backwards-ass nonsense? Nah, the ARP Odyssey was pretty good but it was looking very old by the time they stopped making it and it was a bitch to work with. I tend to gravitate towards older Yamaha gear, but only from the 90s, I want another DX for some of the sounds it can make but their 80s gear really did suck pretty hard in reality. Roland are still in the 60s, think they even still make analog crap, probably re-released the damn Jupiter again, horrible synth. Honestly, never did like anything they made and it always seems to break when I go near it - and it really shouldn't, given all I ever tried to do was create music with it.
Always got on well with Casio gear and it's a shame they don't play around in the pro market more, their stuff always seems to just work and the CZ was horribly underrated. The Bass and pads it can produce are just evil, even the smallest models like my CZ-1000 or the internally similar CZ-101 which I don't own as I have the CZ-1000 and 5000. I also like the RZ-1 drum machine, it's nice to annoy LinnDrum and TR-808 owners by sampling their machine, given the price gap.
Newest thing I own is probably the MU90R, prior to that I have a Korg O1R but only for some of the 90s sounds and I don't really like it very much. If I had the money, I'd get a Prophet 5 (SCI), pretty much the only analog I have time for. The rest are either too early to interest me very much or are just pathetic excuses that shouldn't have been made in the first place - CS80 anyone? Piece of junk.
... (Goes off into a dream world where he owns the SCI Prophet 5)
Anyway, here's hoping Roland can fix the small bugs in this VST as I am sure it will prove very useful to a lot of people. Even I would consider using it for compatibility if it wasn't so easy to just use my SCC-1.