Re: Eventide DSP4500 vs. Kyma

["italo de angelis" <italoop@hotmail.com>]

>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

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