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Xite-1 will arive in February.

So hello everyone!
Just bought a very fast Sony/Vaio laptop with no expresscard slot.
Hope to find a solution here(other topic)

Congrats!

Welcome to the Xitement!

Not sure how you're going to get Xite / Scope to be viewable on your laptop with no PCIexpress slot, but we'll figure out a way.

Happy New Year!

G

Thank you siriusbliss,

Happy New Year to you and to everybody here!

Welcome Roland

Ik zie jouw berichtjes ook vaak langskomen op het synthforum en vroeger op de Nord Modular mailing list

nice!

welkom aan boord

Welcome aboard Roland, and wish you a successful and fun filled 2013 with XITE-1 and Scope Modular.

Roland Kuit wrote:Xite-1 will arive in February.

So hello everyone!
Just bought a very fast Sony/Vaio laptop with no expresscard slot.
Hope to find a solution here(other topic)

Welcome Roland. Hate to say it, but expresscard is the best (only supported) laptop option. Cant say it wont work with some sort of adaptor, but that's bound to make for extra latency.

Thank you all. I see some Dutchies here
I hope I can find some solution regarding my laptop.
It is ultra light as I fly a lot with my gear as hand Luggage. An adapter would be great.

Pass them on the left hand side!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc

"Pass the Dutchie on the left hand site"

Wikipedia:
Background

The song was the band's first release on a major label. It was a cover version of two songs: "Pass the Kouchie" and "Gimme the Music" by The Mighty Diamonds, which deals with the recreational use of cannabis, "kouchie" being slang for a cannabis pipe. For the cover version, the song's title was bowdlerized to "Pass the Dutchie", and all obvious drug references were removed from the lyrics; e.g., when the original croons "How does it feel when you got no herb?", the cover version refers to "food" instead. "Dutchie" is used as a patois term to refer to a food cooking pot such as a Dutch oven in Jamaica and the Caribbean. It has since become a drug reference in itself, denoting a blunt stuffed with marijuana and rolled in a wrapper from a Dutch Masters cigar, since American and British listeners assumed that the term were a drug reference.

The song was first championed by radio DJ Zach Diezel and became an instant hit when it was picked up by MCA Records in September 1982. It debuted at #26 on the UK chart and rose to #1 the following week. In February of the following year, it reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA.[1] The song also scored the #1 position in five other countries, eventually selling over 5 million copies worldwide.[2][3]

Not all Dutchies are smoking dope

Yeah sorry dude, didn't intend to cause any offense, but I haven't seen or heard the word dutchie since that song was out...

And before you say it, not all Irish are drinkers!

Enjoy Scope man! As good as you think its gonna be, its actually better!

No offence taken

And before you say it, not all Irish are drinkers!



Wiki:
The Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann or na hÉireannaigh; Ulster-Scots: Airisch or Airish fowk)[9][10] are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies, see Prehistoric Ireland). The Irish people's earliest ancestors are recorded in legends – they are claimed to be descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians.[11] Lebor Gabála Érenn, a book of Irish mythology tells that Milesians were Scythian descendants.[12] etc....

But some are....modularists!

Aye.. A right motley crew of crazy celts!

Hey had a look on your site, very interesting stuff!
I seem to know your name from some other context?
I do think you will enjoy the xite experience, and I think you will bring good and valuable knowledge and experience to this party!

Cheers! (hic!)

[Hey had a look on your site, very interesting stuff!]

Thank you!
[I seem to know your name from some other context?]

From an other forum?
Clavia NM/NMG2 stuff?

I can't wait to February, my fingers are iching to get hold of this machine and start patching.
SDK 6 sofware too.

I still hope to find an answer on my laptop isue. A bit of latency wouldn't mind.
(for lecturing and patching on the road)

Roland Kuit wrote: I still hope to find an answer on my laptop isue. A bit of latency wouldn't mind.
(for lecturing and patching on the road)

Actual SCOPE 5.1 w/ XITE-1 doesn´t need too much CPU cycles.
You could go w/ a used and cheapo IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad W500 Intel Core2Duo w/ 4GB RAM and WinXP or Win7 32Bit.
These are good laptops, offer PCIexpress and are expandable up to 8GB RAM once you go 64Bits.
Have a look for W500 w/ Intel T9400 (2.5GHz) - T9600 (2.8GHz) processors.
There are also Intel P-model processors which work in these laptops.
You might find one under 400 bucks from regular sellers @ebay,- refurbished.

All the other Thinkpad models W520 and higher are much, much more expensive,- and if you go for a USB (2 or 3) adapter solution (if that exists at all) for S|C PCIexpress card cable, it´s probably not really satisfying as also not very cheap.

If your SonyVaio has thunderbold, there was an adapter mentioned somewhere in this forum,- originally for Macs.
No guarantee that will work though.

Bud

Thank you Bud,

I've seen the topic. I hope in February to take the right desission.

Excellent. Modular, mixing and effects are the platforms strengths, and new blood is what the beast requires.

HNYears

You forgot the synths Jim, all those synths from SC and 3rd party, but yes I guess Roland is particularly interested in the Scope Modular synth

Yes the synths are old but good quality.
I see the audio modulation tricks using Silentway Suite 2.2 in Modular as a way to exceed the lack of realtime modulation that older synths and most Native synths lack.
It's easy to do a glitch free Filter Sweep on a Native synth if the Filter is the typical quality most have, but Modulars Filters get real close with the exception of Resonance/Tracking in the lowest registers, and this puts Modular way ahead of Windows and Apple Synths.

Tangerine Dream was using ASBs in their last tour, so that's a testament of time right there, but audio rate modulation is the action, and I suspect there's folks at S|C who noticed this, and even if they don't take advantage of that, we still have Modulars' modules that accept audio, so we already have the tools necessary.

The platform was created with incredible foresight, as 13 years later we seemed to get a bump in life expectancy w/o any extra work. I can only imagine if the focus on Modular was a priority where it could take us.

(steps down from podium) Ankyu...