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italo de angelis wrote: > >Hello, > >Would you mind telling us more about your Orville please? > >In Australia only top level studio's can justify Eventide as its too > >expensive and has lower perceived second hand value compared to Lexicon >and > >TC Electronic. > >Before people talk about the reverb comparisons between Lex and >Eventide > >Lexicon PCM's have always been popular but around $6000 + pc cards too > >expensive, TC Electronic is deemed to be offering more innovative >products > >than Lexicon in the last couple of years. > >Steven > HI Steven! Well I never consider those issues regarding second hand >price, > just go for the real quality of the box and its creative power. > We all know that Laxicon, TC & Eventide are the top guys in the >business.I > know most of their units, all the PCMs, LXPs and MPXs, 300 and 480, > TC2290,M2000, M5000, M3000, G-Force, Fireworx, H3000s, DSP4000s etc. > Regarding prices: Orville is the top Eventide unit and its list price in >US > is 5700$. Lexicon new 960L goes up to 15000$ and TC top System 6000 >starts > from 8700$...so as you see who is expensive??? > There is a lot of misknowledge and confusion about this issue out there; >one > of the problems is that Eventide Audio is a small branch of a larger > company, working in airplane navigation systems on computers, so they >don't > put all their resources into the audio part or into its ads and >promotion. > Nevertheless Eventide builds the most powerful and creative science toy > available on earth, ORVILLE!!! This box can do things that other >companies > top products cannot EVEN DREAM of doing...Into Orville you get 2 powerful > dsps, each one is like 4 Lexicon PCM80/81s or 4 Event. DSP4000s, just to > give you an idea. Inside Orville you can allocate dsps power and audio > memory building algorithms as you like, repeating structures, setting up >12, > 8 or 6 VERY HIGH QUALITY stereo verbs that stand very well against > Lexicon's. > Plus you can build synths; you have the best pitch shifters around, > including the new Ultrashifter that can recalculate the formants of any > sound, avoiding that nasty Donald Duck or Giant voice artefacts common il > ALL the others shifters on the market...you should hear it! Moreover you > have a 3 minutes sampler with real time editing, time >compression/expansion, > shifting, looping and other features that you would find only on top >brand > models of EMU or AKAY. You can download the full manual at >www.eventide.com > together with thei cool freeware Vsig that allows anybody to program the > unit on a PC, starting from a cheap & miserable 486!!! Now they have >EVE/NET > a remote controller for Orville and DSP7000, working with up to 4 units >in a > network! Who else goes so far??? What is really light years ahead is the > simplicity of the concept behind Orville: it's a high quality software & > hardware audio computer in which you can build anything you might ever >need, > so that you don't have to buy an XXX for verb, a YYY for pitch shifting, >a > ZZZ for quality delays, a KKK for dynamics and so on...this way it's much > cheaper and worx better...no cables, no mixers. 8inputs/8outputs, half > analog, half digital...every internal dsp has 4 ins/4outs...you can patch > them any way you like, beyond all the ordinary mono, stereo, split, >serial > or parallel configurations...even internal loop structure is > allowed...making up for absolutely new algos...fx are stellar, EQs are > amazing...you can build 32 bands stereo graphic eqs or parametric eqs, > great compressors, new things like harmonix extractors!!! 4.20 minutes of > delay memory to loop your neck off... midiclock, taptempo, reverse delays > and shifters w/32 sec. delay, totally customizable graphical analog > interface with sliders, Vu-meters, pots, monitors and texts, triggers and > even a relay to switch electric contacts on/off...like a mixer gooseneck > lamp...nifty!? > This unit allows the user to build anything, things like vocal synths or >gtr > synths are only HERE...post production fx, noises, ambients are only >here, > thanxs to oscillators and white noise generators...low-fi and audio >mangling > can be as BAD as you like...a real bastard!!! Hi-FI...well no use to talk > about this..it's Eventide. Don't worry about second hand prices...you'll > never sell a box like this...it will grow on you and be kept updated from > many years to caome by the factory; they still make H3000 from the 80s!!! > Who else does it? My PCM80 lasted for about 2 > years...Jamman?...Vortex?...Orville is Quadraphonic...have you ever >heard a > real Quad verb? An audio source panning in a Quad mixer? Missing some >joys > of life...get the manuals...read them...save your pennies and the market > will NOT bother you for a long long long time ahead...cheaper and better > than the others...you'll agree. > www.eventide.com/oupdate is a site to download the latest software for > Orville and fot users' presets exchange...again...who else does this??? > NOHOPE...frankly...ciao ITALO Shit! Gotta get me one. ;) Anyway, this is really impressive. Maybe I should sell the house... Robert > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com