Samplitude - So who is using this app and whats your thought

siriusbliss · Post by **siriusbliss** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:51 pm

CPU usage is very efficient even with dx or VST plugins running.

By the way, my rev. 5.2 box and CD both say Sek'd and not Magix.

As far as I know - same people, new company name. And the technical team is awesome and very responsive to the users.

ScofieldKid · Post by **ScofieldKid** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:01 pm

I've used v7.0 a bit.

Why I went for Samplitude and not for Cubase SX was really because of user interface, and because I think Steinberg is upgrade-happy and money-grubbing. I mean, come on. As a past Steinberg user I have absolutely zero respect for them as a company in terms of upgrades, and in terms of producing stable software wrt Cubase. I have always thought that WaveLab was excellent for 2-channel work though. Just never like Cubase or the way they have marketted it.

Now as for features, Samplitude had plugin-delay-compensation *BEFORE* Cubase did. And that is a very, very cool feature.

And really, beyond all of this... in virtually every case when I have dealt with a new piece of sound hardware, I have almost instantly been able to get things to work in Samplitude, and almost never been able to get them work in Cubase. No lie. The ASIO and the bit settings and so forth in Samplitude, clearly defined, and they work.

I kind of wish they had more market penetration. But either way. They have a good product and I hope they keep supporting it.

MIDI features and things like drum maps have been the key features that had me using Cubase before. But I really am more interested in audio than I am in MIDI, though I understand where some people would be heavy MIDI users. For recording/mastering, I just find Samplitude easier to use.

firubbi · Post by **firubbi** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:58 am

i thought cakewalk is very easy to use and need less cpu power. so how does Samplitude sound? is it better than sonar?
thanks

siriusbliss · Post by **siriusbliss** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:54 pm

Samplitude is light years ahead in sound quality.

<my opinion>

I've used/tried them all over the years, and still find myself sticking with Samplitude - especially when it comes time to mixdown.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:11 am

On 2004-08-02 22:54, siriusbliss wrote:
Samplitude is light years ahead in sound quality.

<my opinion>

I've said that for years.

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:17 am

BTW,

Samplitude.com now has the V8 infocenter up and for those who are interested samplitude.de has german movies up, I cant understand a word they are saying the the new drum editor looks very slick aswell as there analog model suit.

Also they are showing the crossgrade to be US $599.00 for comprable software, not spectacular but not horrible I guess, Ill wait till they have a demo to see how the title has evolved on the composition front.

Cheers!

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:55 am

I used the Noise Reduction "the right way" the other day. I was realy amazed at the good results. I just continued the recording for some time to get the room noise, and used that as the noise sample. I have only hi-fi speakers, but I must say that if it did mess with the sound - I couldn't hear it. I only heard my noisefloor drop. It is not that easy with a high noise floor, but like this it was realy good.

MrV · Post by **MrV** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:26 am

Samplitude sounds interesting , must check it out. Agreed about the Steinberg upgrade / company user-unfriendly policy . They were indifferent to their customers,in my experience,right from Commodore 64 /Cubase Audio Falcon days ....and they complain when people resort to the other "softwares" ....hmmm...nuff said. M

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:26 pm

i'm seriously looking into Samplitude 8. Very tired of Steinberg for lots of reasons and i don't want to give them any more of my time or money. The audio side of Samplitude is fine, so just waiting to hear on the MIDI updates and i think i'll be getting this.

Mr A

valis · Post by **valis** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:48 pm

Honestly from what I can see in the screenshots the midi doesn't look too far off from Sx. It might be lacking for the 'midi inserts' and a few other noncritical things, but otherwise it looks fairly similar (generic) even down to the multiple lanes of vertical bars. The only real question for me would be does it have a transform window of some sort?

Personally Logic's integration of plugin (track) automation, midi (hyper) automation and the ability to convert & manipulate it in logic is the real reason I haven't switched. If Samplitude had some way of treating midi objects in a simlar way to their audio objects (object editor with transforms etc) in a non-destructive manner, that could be quite cool.

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:24 am

I want to ask the users of samplitude 7 tho... what's the MIDI implementation like at the moment? Does it look like they can get it right with ver 8? I downloaded an early demo of ver7 some time ago, but the MIDI implementation reeked, so I'm quite speculative as to how good it can get. (whether it can replace cubase or not) And also VSTi stability and compatibility.. in the infocenter, it says "number of VSTi (native single output)".. so what happens to stuff like Kontakt that has a bunch of outputs?

I love the way quantizing works in Logic, just maximum flexibility in all directions.. wonder if samplitude's will be all that good.

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Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:03 pm

Hi Ken,

Well I do not have v.8 of samp pro, but, I can say that after watching the german videos showing midi implementation it appears "vissually" that they have brought it pretty much on par with Cubase. The reason I say that is they sort of did a controler lane view for CC's and standard midi as Cubase offers editable with drawtools and such, lemme grab some links for you to check out, there are videos for a number of things, one very interesting one is the new "drum editior" this looks to be really well thought out and something ide like to get my hands on

Hrmm seems you cant link the direct page so here is how to get there!

http://www.samplitude.de then from there at the german site click on the right side of the page, the link named Samplitude v.8 Info Center.

From there each new feature has a cideo in multiple formats, be sure to check out the midi ones especially the drum editor, also check out the new elastic audio features, I heard its supposed to be like built in melodyne(sp?), also supposidly their convolution reverb and analog modeling suit is supposed to be top notch.

Enjoy!

valis · Post by **valis** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:06 pm

Pardon the size of the images...hopefully the links stay active for a while.

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:39 pm

Does it record/open 32bit integer files or just 32bit f.p.?

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:44 am

24bit integer
32bit floating point

Grok · Post by **Grok** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:56 pm

On 2004-08-22 18:39, alfonso wrote:
Does it record/open 32bit integer files or just 32bit f.p.?

Hi Alfonso,

As the Scope Platform works in 32 bit floating point, IEEE 32 bit floating point audio files is the accurate format to use, IMO.

The Scope synths audio files I record in Samplitude v7 are shown by the Samplitude's bitmeter to have a 30 bit linear/integer resolution. After processing these files with some Scope FXes, the new obtained resulting audio files are shown by the bitmeter to have a 32 bit floating point resolution.

Grok · Post by **Grok** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:05 am

BTW, the Samplitude v8's Analogue Modeling Suite got very, very good opinions from the german users of Samplitude that already have the v8 (to come in September for the english version).

It seems that I will be able to replace my Transient Designer (with wich I can get only 3 stereo instances in SFP, not more) with the Samplitude v8 own Transient Designer, in native. And with quicker-than-realtime bounces and freezes.
Some say it is worth waiting for the english v8 to come before buying an UAD card for UAD FXes.

For my understanding, Magix Elastic Audio is a substitute for Melodyne AND Autotune...

Grok · Post by **Grok** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:16 am

Right now, I have only the v7.
As a user, I feel the v7 is top notch and unbeatable for audio works, and usable for MIDI (CC controllers drawable automations, tempo changes), even if not as discriminant as Logic is. If you are a quite good musical instruments player (I'm not), I think the Samplitude Professional v7 has the essential MIDI tools for you. Even if I'm not a good player, I can do what I want with the v7 MIDI functions.

I sure can't wait for using this Robota thing

and the Elastic Audio

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:49 am

Scope is 40 bit floating.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:36 am

32 bit int. 40 bit float.

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