SCOPE XITE-1 is shipping!

[netguyjoel]

AAAACCCCCHHHAAAA

[siriusbliss]

Monday I will have some cool sounding Solaris demos.
But be warned I like the old Mahavishnu and ELP type of stuff, so the Bass drum won't be the 4/4 ( yawn, yawn) type of groove. More like 10/8 and 12/8 with distorted synth lead guitars and fake phased fiddles.

Thanks for the warning

Greg

[hifiboom]

damn, jimmy has it already with a special happy birthday scope v5 version install.

Wish you all the best J.

and have fun with your little new toy.

[Gatam]

- My actual system provide me 7 ADAT ports which i use to sum my main computer (Mac with Logic as Sequencer) and 2 Slaves PCs in the Scope PC (2 Scope pro / 1 Pulsar II, 1 Scope Pro has an ADAT plate).
X-cite has 2 ADAT ports.
How could we have more than 2 ADAT ports with an Xcite System

At the moment we can't have more I/O's on the XITE system - but I think SC will use the XTDM interface for additional DSP power and I/O's in the future. It would also be awesome if SC could make a z-link/AES adapter - otherwise I don't have any use of the z-link interface.

There is a "workaround" using Z-Link. Just attach an A 16 via Z-Link and you have another set of 2x ADAT In/Out. The ADATs from Xite would be not enough for me, too, so I asked Ralf last year about this. Result: I ordered an A 16 XLR (which was delivered at once) and an Xite (which has been shipped today! ) Not the same like 3 cards would provide, but now I have 4 x ADAT In/Outs and XTDM extensions will come. And the 16 In/Outs of A 16 are also good to have. Sounds really good!

Thanks Warp69 and Marvin

Warp69, i really want to keep everything separated,
1 Mac as Sequencer, and for some native instruments or plugins,
2 PC for Kontakt sampler (essentially Orchestral Stuff), and
1 Scope PC (Mix/Recording) with your outstanding A100/P100, SpaceF stuff , DAS, Celmo etc ...in Vdat
I m very happy with this kind of organization, would like to keep it like that
and ...
in the announcement i didn't read anything about Mac and os X drivers, i know they should be released soon but,
I waited OsX drivers since ...hum ... a long time, and because there was nothing i put my cards in a PC and learn to use and optimize a PC (not a bad thing after all)
Anyway, 6 ADAT ports is a minimum for my needs, but like you said, there would be something to expect from the XTDM interface

Marvin
The A16 workaround is very good to know, thanks a lot !

[eric]

Monday I will have some cool sounding Solaris demos.
But be warned I like the old Mahavishnu and ELP type of stuff, so the Bass drum won't be the 4/4 ( yawn, yawn) type of groove. More like 10/8 and 12/8 with distorted synth lead guitars and fake phased fiddles.

Jimmy, did you get the PAT version from JohnB yet?
I got the demo to try.

Eric.

[dawman]

No I haven't, but I have a small S2 controller coming anyday now just to see.
I hope the PAT stuff works.
My only experience was years ago with the CS80 and I was too worried about having a melody line of a chord structure stand out as I was quite young and if you think I am a moron now....back then I had to watch our engineer hook up my Leslie, Lexicon Prime Time and PCM41 and write it down..... I have an album we did with a CS80 intro that was semi popular success which showed the PAT controlling the Freq. CutOff of the Super BP/LP Filters and it sounded really good. The guy who has the Masters has been out of business for years so it might take a while, but I did find a few of these in a trunk at my parents house last Christmas. It has some PAT Synth pads w/ the melody voice leading style. I shall try and convert it and see if any friends have a turntable. I might need Osiris because my mother never understood how to hold a record album or 45 when bragging....
I was only 18 when I got signed and thought I was going to be a star, we headlined 5-8000 seaters and opened for everybody back then.
Now I play for drunks in Casino showrooms and local dives, and brag on a synth forum....
Well I still have lots of great gear and enjoyed every minute of the XITE-1, so therr Ya' go.

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[John Cooper]

Wow, I stepped away for a few days, and what a nice surprise here on my return
Congratulations Holger, and everyone at S/C!!

Really looking forward to the flood of the new XITE-ment, and renewed global interest in the platform. I expect we'll see some new forum users pretty soon

And thanks Jimmy for the extended preview. You're killing us!!
-John

[valis]

Congrats to SC and all the new XITE-d PlanetZ members.

[dante]

XITE-1/4LIVE wrote:
But be warned I like the old Mahavishnu and ELP type of stuff, so the Bass drum won't be the 4/4 ( yawn, yawn) type of groove. More like 10/8 and 12/8 with distorted synth lead guitars and fake phased fiddles.

Don't forget the Ring Modulator ( Blue Box ) that John McLaughlin used on 'Visions' - nobody has done it better..........awesome stuff ...

[Marvin]

Marvin
The A16 workaround is very good to know, thanks a lot !

I have the same challenge here. When Xite-1 was announced I made SC the suggestion to provide at least the same In/Out equipment as three cards would provide. Because many (most?) of us do have three cards allready and therefore do have at lesat 6 ADAT In/Outs. My thought was: Provide Xite-1 with the same In/Outs of three cards and everybody could switch easily to Xite-1 using exactly the same gear with even the same cables as before.
This leads to the addition of the Z-Link feature, (which the first Xite-1 didn't show) not only to use the analog In/Outs but to get access of at least another 2 ADAT In/Outs.
I wouldn't have ordered Xite-1 if I couldn't have a minimum of 4 ADAT In/Outs and was happy as Ralf told me this solution with the A16 (and I think Ralf was happy to sell another A16 this way ). The 16 anaolog In/Outs do compensate the last 2 ADAT In/Outs somehow, but we do have XTDM, hopefully providing so much In/Outs that we could have more than three cards ever could.

[okantah]

I have place budget to own SCOPE XITE-1 somewhere in december 2009

[dubcotics]

Hi fellas,

good news by the way,

and for those lucky owners out there, can the xite be combined with the old board in order to acheive more or are different dsp achitecture and can cannot cohabite?

The answer would be very interesting, if yes, it's a must have


cheers,

didier

[netguyjoel]

There are 6 chips from the cards...1-6. 7-18 are the new ones..I don't think you can marry them, to combine more DSP...you won't need to!!!! The 6 1st gen chips are for backwards compatibility. you can still run all the older devices that will allow. But the new processing power, is just AMAZING!!

[Gatam]

...you won't need to!!!! ...

Yes, but we could keep i/o (Adat / AES/EBU etc ...) from old cards
But if it would be possible, Soniccore would communicate about that ...

[netguyjoel]

You would still have ADAT io in XCITE Not to mention an additional ADAT io w/ A16!

[siriusbliss]

AFAIK there is only ADAT I/O between existing cards and Xite at this time - no XTDM bridge yet.

When mine arrives, it looks like GaryB and I will be the pioneers at having BOTH the existing 3-card system in my main DAW along with PCI-e hooked up to Xite. So I THINK this will be a DUAL Scope system for a while - not sure

It's nuts!

Eventually we presume there will be some sort of XTDM bridge cabled (or whatever) between the two environments, which will mean the jig is up on how/which/whenever the DSP farm is fully utilized.

Let the games begin!

Greg

[Shroomz~>]

AFAIK there is only ADAT I/O between existing cards and Xite at this time - no XTDM bridge yet.

When mine arrives, it looks like GaryB and I will be the pioneers at having BOTH the existing 3-card system in my main DAW along with PCI-e hooked up to Xite. So I THINK this will be a DUAL Scope system for a while - not sure

It's nuts!

Eventually we presume there will be some sort of XTDM bridge cabled (or whatever) between the two environments, which will mean the jig is up on how/which/whenever the DSP farm is fully utilized.

I was assuming that the XTDM connection would be for linking 2 XITE-1 units together though?

[Gatam]

You would still have ADAT io in XCITE Not to mention an additional ADAT io w/ A16!

yes, i read it some post above, but i need at least 6 Adat (i actually use 7 ports)
Anyway, the Xcite power and steadiness seems truly amazing, so i ll find a workaround
i MUST find a workaround
Last years (since 2000) i always worked with stock creamware devices,Celmo devices, Flexor and some freebees, but this year, i just bought some DAS and SpaceF devices, it's totaly amazing the sound you can get from them, and the good work i can make with (including free devices i find here, thanks to all !!!).
I m like a child and i m starting to look at other Devices (Wolf, Zarg Synth, Mojo, Xor etc ...)
My 36 dsps begins to cry, so i'll find a workaround
I m impatient to see how both system (old cards and Xcite) live together

[siriusbliss]

I was assuming that the XTDM connection would be for linking 2 XITE-1 units together though?

I assume this also, but I don't know if cabling or protocol exists yet to link between the Xite and older cards already parked in the host PC.

I may be mistaken, since it may have been mentioned somewhere already?

Greg

[Immanuel]

I doubt the systems can be chained in any other way than through physical sound connections (adat, AES, analog). The thingies on the cards are on the up-side - not on the out-side. Also, I'd guess it could easily be a programmers nightmare, and the extra DSPs will not really count much - only the I/O. And there is the xtdm connection for future upgrades there, when they get to that.