As someone who’s spent 20 years in software I keep up to date with NDSP updates…I have no idea how heads haven’t rolled over there, it’s actually comical.
5 years and there’s still only 4 plugins on the thing.
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5 years and there’s still only 4 plugins on the thing.
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Did you at least get the carrying case and coffee table book?
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The problems come from the top, and those people rarely roll out heir own heads.
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Fuck off, internet nobody who thinks they're important and have nothing remotely useful to contribute.
J/K, kinda
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I was curious if there were any Variax like guitars on the market. Without looking deep, the closest I found was this.
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Is this a different guy than Audio Transformer/Nembrini?
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Yet you are posting the above on a public forum
Can't argue with that, to be fair.
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At least it’s with the intent of conversation and not likes and subscribes.
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When I saw that it reignited my interested in the Variax stuff. I'd wanted one for a long time but figured when they stopped making them it would be the end of any kind of support/advancement, the second they said 'We didn't forget about our Variax users" my ears perked up. That thing has got to be a killer studio tool.
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I had one for a while, and it was really cool. I wish I didn’t sell it lol. SUPER convenient with tunings and I’m always changing guitar tunings on the fly for a song.
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I think it's the same guy - can't be 100% but it's highly likely
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Fwiw, if any kinda Variax technology makes a reappearance, would it possibly be a decent idea to hand the processing over to whatever the suitable floor unit is?
Now, maybe I'm totally off the mark here, but as some of the settings came with quite a noticeable latency (most notably anything requiring alternate tunings), I always happened to think it might've had to to with the lack of CPU juice available inside the small onboard units. A unit as powerful as the Stadiums should likely have less issues to process 6 signals individually, no? And for those wanting to use their Variax MkIIs with other units, there could possibly be a separate processing box.
Also, handing over 6 separate audio streams to the Stadium would allow for some incredible stuff. Anyone who has ever played a Hex-pickup signal into some "poly distortion" will already know what I'm talking about. I only once had that opportunity, playing a rig of someone I knew back then. He used a GK pickup with a breakout box, so that 6 separate signals were running into another specialized box only doing overdrives and a bit of filter-ish stuff (IIRC, it's been quite some years...) and it was instantly glorious to play some heavily distorted chords with no intermodulation between the strings. From all I know, some Roland VG units allow for similar things (even if they seem to focus more on the synth part rather than keeping the string signal intact and going from there).
Now, maybe I'm totally off the mark here, but as some of the settings came with quite a noticeable latency (most notably anything requiring alternate tunings), I always happened to think it might've had to to with the lack of CPU juice available inside the small onboard units. A unit as powerful as the Stadiums should likely have less issues to process 6 signals individually, no? And for those wanting to use their Variax MkIIs with other units, there could possibly be a separate processing box.
Also, handing over 6 separate audio streams to the Stadium would allow for some incredible stuff. Anyone who has ever played a Hex-pickup signal into some "poly distortion" will already know what I'm talking about. I only once had that opportunity, playing a rig of someone I knew back then. He used a GK pickup with a breakout box, so that 6 separate signals were running into another specialized box only doing overdrives and a bit of filter-ish stuff (IIRC, it's been quite some years...) and it was instantly glorious to play some heavily distorted chords with no intermodulation between the strings. From all I know, some Roland VG units allow for similar things (even if they seem to focus more on the synth part rather than keeping the string signal intact and going from there).
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