Of course it was innovators dNa who played the
opening hand in the DSP device stakes in 2015, after a relatively quiet year. But we all know great devices don't just fall out
of the R&D trees. And in this case the wait was well worth it, as
we will see with the new Optimus Prime and Tape Echo devices. Ferrofish soon followed up the development stakes with the unveiling of thier new A32 converter. But is it more than just a converter ? SunMachine provides us with the now definitive guide on how to run Scope on a Mac. Even though bootcamp has been the long touted solution, it's great to see all the prerequisites and gotcha's properly mapped out. Want to get more out of Scope Solaris on your XITE-1? Although Solaris was not designed for the XITE-1 architecture there are a few tips here provided so that you can get some bread and butter sounds running and even a preset bank of some mainstream synth sounds to get you going on at least six notes of polyphony. And there's also a neat trick for doing similar with QWave. With the question of 'how to make a track louder' coming up again I found that the 'John Paul Braddock' approach to 'Mastering The Cube' to be a great way to visualize the compromise between retaining dynamics whilst achieving optimal gain and avoiding the loudness war. There's a Group Of Light follow up article showing thier new gear and techniques, all channeled by Scope of course. Technical wizard GaryB gives us a clear explanation of what 'balanced' means in terms of cabling and lastly we take a nostalgic look at the early adoption of Scope PCI by Hans Zimmer through to his continued testimony of the Scope platform and XITE-1. With this being the 26th Edition of ScopeRise (the 5th being an Xmas stocking filler excluded) we reach a milestone of 200 articles. |
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