Strange, I was just researching my "Sequencer not loaded" problem with Ensoniq VFX-SD and bing pops up in my email, thanks.
Lag is everywhere, fingers, brain, ears, keys, chips, amps, speakers. It gets worse if you sit down and time it, because then you've added your own perception/cognition problem to it as well.
--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "narfman96" <narfman96@...> wrote:
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> At the risk of offending the newbie since they may be a member here I say poppycock to the unnoticeable delay. Although I play my 2 Strats through Roland and Digitech pitch to midi gear and can anticipate the delay I don't have a problem with the Hawk upgrades to the Poly. I can also compare it to the stock EX-800 I have. I don't find myself compensating like I do with the guitars either. I mainly play progressive rock and although I don't blast riffs like Jan Hammer or Jordan Rudess I still can cover most solos on the keys.
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> The original Poly-800 cost what, $800.00 US. There were many synths from the 80's that had major bugs. There were noticeably slow ones too. The Yamaha TX81Z $550.00 sent corrupted sysex dumps. The Roland D-20 $1900.00 would totally lock up until the battery was removed if it received a bad sysex dump. The Ensoniq VFX-SD $2700 would crash and corrupt the sequencer OS until it was reloaded. And the list goes on. All of these synths were factory produced.
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> I'll take the Hawk-800's extended midi control, looping envelopes, Atomahawk digitally controlled mods, velocity response, and sequencer on the fly options any day.
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> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@> wrote:
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> > Hi Poly fans,
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> > I have been measuring the lag in the HAWK-800 compared to the original Poly-800 and I have found that there is about 40-50mS of lag introduced by all of the extra work the CPU is doing with the new features.
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> > One of my newest customers is quiet flustered that this lag is present.
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> > Since there are about 50 HAWK customers out there, what do you all think of that extra lag? If you discovered it, what did you do to work around it?
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> > Does it make your Poly-800 unplayable as my new customer suggests?
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> > I know I could probably wrench some better response out of the software but I just don't think I will get much better performance.
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> > I am little worried that I may get a bad reputation for having produced a kit that slows down Poly that much.
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> > Help!
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> > Mike.
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