First Sonic Core Xite-1 Test

[doktorfuture]

Today's the first day with the Sonic Core XITE-1 and here's a little version of the X Files intro I did on it featuring 2 Sonic Core synths (Lightwave and Profit), a Voyager, and a little Eventide H8000fw doing a low level centering echo and band-delay. It's gratuitously synthy, but hey, its "Day 1" with the thing.

I set it up downstairs in my home theatre / "mastering" room and put the interface up on the projector. I usually sit in the comfy chair with a tablet on my lap and remote into the computers with VNC.

What surprised me was the ease of routing. It was really easy to patch in the voyager, set the Eventide as two pre fader aux sends, put some sonic core inserts on the synths and a soft saturation and reverb on the master. The thing just worked.

I had a little trouble recording the audio. I couldn't get the VDAT recorder they supply to work for me so I routed the audio out via ASIO and recorded it in Bidule which worked like a charm.

[braincell]

Sounds fantastic. I love the projector. Wish it was longer. Keep up the great work. Happy New Year!

[Neutron]

what an amazing room! are those transparent speakers?

and i see even that room is not safe from milk crates

[iSiStOy]

[doktorfuture]

Ya, they're electrostatic speakers (Martin Logan Summit's). There is a thin mylar-like conductive membrane sandwiched between a positive and negative grid.

Couldn't live without the milk crates

Cheers

what an amazing room! are those transparent speakers?

and i see even that room is not safe from milk crates

[cortone]

doktorfuture,

Love that crazy room, it looks like it could be out of the X-Files! I don't think I'd want to leave it...

Try this with the VDAT (courtesy of Ralf D.):

Starting with an empty project, load the VDAT, and assign it to DSP2. If you want to use the VRC-S, load it and assign it to DSP2 as well. If you want more than 8 tracks, increase to up to 24 tracks now, then release the DSP assignment on the VDAT (but not the VRC-S). You can continue to increase the VDAT tracks further after releasing the DSP (I've never gone higher than 32 tracks, at both 44.1k and 48k). Save this as a template, and then continue to build your project as desired. New projects can be built from the template.

After this, I am able to use VDAT, and sync to Cubase with the VRC-S. Sometimes when I load a VDAT project I have to switch XITE from master to slave and back (or vice versa) in order for the VRC-S to sync to the VDAT and Cubase, then I'm good to go.

I don't use the VRC-128, but it might work as well with this work-around.

Hope that helps, let us know if you have any more questions!

Cheers,
Cory

[siriusbliss]

nice piece.
Great room.
I got the projector and VNC, but not the easy chair or big speakers

Now I'm doubly inspired.

Greg