Sascha Franck
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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).
