Messe 2009 - Halle 5.1, D39

[johnbowen]

Hi everyone!

There's some bits concerning Messe in another topic around here, but I thought I'd post a new one to call more attention to it, if that's OK.
I'll be sharing a booth again with Sonic Core for the Frankfurt Messe 2009 - Halle 5.1, booth D39. We are hoping to see many of you Planet Z'ers there, and if we can get enough organized, it would be fun to have an official gathering at the booth, and/or an evening dinner planned somewhere. This year Messe is April 1-4, and runs from 9:00am until 6:00pm (18:00) each day (except Sunday we stop at 17:00). So, please discuss and post when you think you will be there, and let's see if we can all meet!
cheers,
John B.

[garyb]

go get 'em!

[Warp69]

I'll be there 1-4 april, but I will be heading back to Denmark 4. april. Michael from Sonic Timeworks will also be there for a day, but Im not sure which day.

[siriusbliss]

Have a great show!

Greg

[dawman]

Excellent....
Who can we recruit to be the stupid question-asker ?
I hid my badge and nobody knew what I even looked like and I still got Bushwacked....
This has to be better coordinated for Messe.
I think GaryB ratted me out...

[Immanuel]

This has got to be a hillarious year at the messe. I can't even imagine, what crazy new releases will be announced on April the first!

But wouldn't it be wonderful, if one special 'one' gets released to prove all the disbelievers wrong?

[spacef]

I am not yet sure because of the dates,
I will not know before a couple of weeks unfortunately...
I will try to be there saturday at least (but has to be confirmed)....

[FrancisHarmany]

Totally not sure. I've been wanting to go for some time. I think saterday would be my day of choice.

[pling]

anyone going from berlin who will give me a lift?

[David]

I'm leaving Dunstable if anyone wants a lift but it's got to be today

[garyb]

c'mon folks!

an actual chance to get the story from the horse's mouth and what? too hip, too jaded? don't you all want to give the boys heck and find out what's going on?

[Immanuel]

I'd love to, but money is money. And being a student is being a student. It would be a rather expensive chat for me.

[eric]

Bit of a trek from Sydney..

Not like when I used to live in Darmstadt.


Hope all goes well and will look forward to the spys' reports.

Eric.

[krizrox]

I used to live in Hessisch Oldendorf. Can I join the club

Seriously, wish I was there. Have a Warsteiner for me! Or even a Herforder Pils!

[siriusbliss]

Hey, where's the damn video and pictures of booth girls?

COME ON GUYS!

Greg

[Shroomz~>]

Hey, where's the damn video and pictures of booth girls?

COME ON GUYS!

Maybe Stardust is taking care of everything this time...

[dawman]

Yes.....A Spearhead Investigation from someone who lives close by.............
No wonder he's being quiet, he has had months of notice and preparation....
A great contribution to the forum indeed............
I am hearing the attendance is way down and many synth guys like Acces haven't got a booth %%^%>>>>
I want some pics of a Big Busty Long Legged Brunhilda..................

[eric]

I used to live in Hessisch Oldendorf. Can I join the club

Seriously, wish I was there. Have a Warsteiner for me! Or even a Herforder Pils!

Green plates by any chance?

Eric.

[breitner]

Any news from the Messe? I find it frightfully quiet......

[spacef]

I've posted that in another thread here which has a bit more info by others ... http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27191
RedMuze should also report soon, if i understood correctly

The Solaris has well evolved since last musikmess: I only saw pictures recently, from Namm and such, but seeing it for real makes a different impression, the sound of some oscillators functions like the drive of peaks (i don't remember the exact name of the parameter right now) etc have excellent sonic results, very high grade design with new engines and such....
The 96khz sampling rate, added to the new engines and R&D for Solaris, makes it a really fantastic synth, with deep design/routing possibilities.... It is not a "one button does it all" , as there is a lot going on in terms of routing, oscillators, filters, modulations.... It is deep, not that complicated, but you have to take an hour or two to understand all the functions and how it is made, and I didn't have all that time, and neither did John who needed to answer visitors' questions.

Xite is also a fantastic DSP studio audio card. Last year, the box was not finished. Now it is completely done, with thick metal and it's pretty heavy too... it is not an empty box made of plastic, it really deserves to be shown and it actually looks better in real than in the pictures... Under the hood, all seems to work fine: i was playing 16 synths layered together, (all the prodissey, minimax, pro12, lightwave, Solaris plugin, etc etc).... all connected to a STM mixer , and the dsp meter was slightly more than 50% with some synths being polyphonic (i didn't check the voicing, was too buzy muting/soloing this or that to make a new sound to play pad chords)... In terms of interface, what is running for Xite at the moment is Scope 5 which is compatible with the PCI boards and the Xite (at least for the most part because, in xite users can allocate themselves devices to particular dsps .. and i have not asked if this function is available to Scope-PCI (it would be normal if it is not, and a cherry on the cake if it is)...... Because Xite can run all current scope Plugins with no problem. I even loaded a FP mixer and it was running great: i didn't look at the dsp meter when i loaded it, but i guess it is not something that really counts.

It was fun to see the new Hardware i/o modules: headphone outputs, and preamp inputs ......
It will certainly be possible to make a studio project to be a live project, without the need to decide what you will keep/remove for a live perfomance... I am pretty sure one can finish a relatively ambitious project at once, in terms of number of devices/synths/effects/mixing... . Also, if today the Scope 5 interface seems more or less common to Xite/Scope, I understood that Xite can also use a new architecture for distribution accross dsps, which could allow even more power.... It is really amazing to have this sort of "xite native mode"... Add to this the power of all your vstis/sequencers/samplers/external gear.... and you make your computer the most powerful synth workstation+studio card that i've heard about (and i read the news everyday), which can be mobile, and which deserved to exist for a long time now.....
If you are of the kind of guy who will also add a Solaris hardware to your setup, then you could be selling gear when those two hit the market...
Get xited
Mehdi


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