Recent content by Matt-Steele

Well... I just received the Progressive Foundry SDX tonight, installed it and have been playing with it for a few hours. I approve!

lol Always buy Sweetwater dude! It did quite a while ago actually.

Agreed. a few expansions have had passable hi hat samples, but others are just down horrible. The METAL! EZX easily has the most horrid hi-hat samples I've ever heard. I think the hi-hats are one of the give-aways that you can usually tell if drums are real or sampled. This expansion gives...

Nope. Just a few things we're expecting in a Superior 3!

Toontrack are really starting to nail it. From the samples I've heard, This SDX sounds like what I've always expected/wanted sampled drums to sound like. Can't wait to actually get my hands on this and start working with them myself. Well done Toontrack! Now, a new and shiny SD3 around the...

Aw crap! Just when I thought I could skip a metal month! EDIT... After really listening to the samples, for once the SDX is the clear victor. What a pleasant surprise! SDX ORDERED!

Yep. I had to purchase the card separately and install it myself. It cost a lot too. I think it was around 500 bucks. That's how I use it, and I primarily use the preamp gain to color the signal while recording. The unison tech essentially turns your Apollo into a virtual version of any of...

Hey Melodeath, I've only owned one Apollo. I've used it with three different computers. Actually, the original PC I had it connected to was an HP xw8600 workstation. This computer never had any issues with the Apollo connected via firewire. The second PC I built crashed everytime I attempted...

Sure, I've had extensive discussions with UAD technical support with regards to getting DSP plug ins working smoothly under windows Firewire. It was an incredibly frustrating situation I was in, and it pretty much came down to this... I had to play with my system hardware configuration until...

I have an Apollo and love it. I even switched to the Mac platform because of their support for Thunderbolt under console 2. I suggest not moving to an Apollo without a Mac period. DAW DSP usage under PC is highly sketchy! I've been through many different interfaces and I've really never been...

lol! It is for both. Many times I am forced to work crazy hours and I can't always physically be at work, so I end up working from home, not to mention I want to own a tool where I can do what I do for a living for myself outside of work. Believe it or not, it's nothing compared to the HP...

Thanks Melodeath, sorry I haven't. This Mac is for audio only. I have two other pretty serious PCs that I game on and a Surface Pro 3. Sadly, I've been spending a lot of my extra time on the PS4 in Destiny the Taken King. :( No PC version. If you're going to try gaming on this, just...

Thought this might be a good place to put this...

My 5K IMac is inexpensive compared to my main PC. http://pcpartpicker.com/b/tZyfrH Here's a pic of the IMac...

I have the 5K IMac. I haven't read up on the new version, but I can tell you that mine has been great. I'm amazingly very happy with it. I switched over to Mac and Thunderbolt 2 when console 2 was announced for UAD Apollo Thunderbolt only. I'm not looking to move to a different machine...