Hardware Vintage mode mystery uncovered

Airyck wrote:Phew, luckily I don't care about any of this

Any difference in audio quality or "tone" added from an audio interface in a modern instrument like this is negligible IMHO.

There is so much more that is going to come out of my sound design and mix engineering that I could care less if something adds a tiny bit of tone or a boost or dip at some frequency, I'm just going to mix around it anyway.

This seems like a huge waste of time to care so much about this but to each their own I guess. Have fun trying to figure this out you guys

MPC-Tutor wrote:It can still be found

Akai NAMM Press Release wrote:MPC Renaissance changes the output characteristics of the sound to match that of the intended machine so users seeking that sound can easily get it. In addition, the analog output circuitry in MPC Renaissance is identical to the highly regarded MPC3000.

http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=14683

DJ Hellfire wrote:

Airyck wrote:Phew, luckily I don't care about any of this

Any difference in audio quality or "tone" added from an audio interface in a modern instrument like this is negligible IMHO.

There is so much more that is going to come out of my sound design and mix engineering that I could care less if something adds a tiny bit of tone or a boost or dip at some frequency, I'm just going to mix around it anyway.

This seems like a huge waste of time to care so much about this but to each their own I guess. Have fun trying to figure this out you guys

JAH wrote:

labcoats wrote:The whole soundcard deal was intended to be some kind of pacifier to suggest its a hardware MPC - of sorts - a bit insulting imho to treat us like idiots.

labcoats wrote:

JAH wrote:

labcoats wrote:The whole soundcard deal was intended to be some kind of pacifier to suggest its a hardware MPC - of sorts - a bit insulting imho to treat us like idiots.

Really? /quote]


yeah Jah, really.

labcoats wrote:I'm under no illusions as to what it actually is. A controller - with an unnecessary soundcard bolted on

JAH wrote:Latency issues sounds more like the user or user's computer.

I use an off the shelf PC and a Mac Mini. I can use a buffer setting of 64 on both. But I normally operate the Ren at 512. Just about any new computer you buy today is powerful enough to operate the Ren.

I'll teach you how if you are having issues.

labcoats wrote:

yeah Jah, really.

labcoats wrote:

JAH wrote:

labcoats wrote:The whole soundcard deal was intended to be some kind of pacifier to suggest its a hardware MPC - of sorts - a bit insulting imho to treat us like idiots.

jpeg wrote:the soundcard on the ren is the same type of components that ud find on any mpc surely u can see that the onbly difference is the cpu is software based but everything else operates business as usual.

Coz wrote:

jpeg wrote:the soundcard on the ren is the same type of components that ud find on any mpc surely u can see that the onbly difference is the cpu is software based but everything else operates business as usual.

The fella who recently carried out a complete teardown of the Ren claims it's not even in the same ballpark as the 4K's interface when it comes to component quality.

The bigger issue at this point is why a 24/96 interface is defaulting samples to 16bit.

mQueue wrote:I'm that fella.....thats correct. I can post em side by side if anyone needs more evidence.

Airyck wrote:This seems like a huge waste of time

Coz wrote:

jpeg wrote:the soundcard on the ren is the same type of components that ud find on any mpc surely u can see that the onbly difference is the cpu is software based but everything else operates business as usual.

The fella who recently carried out a complete teardown of the Ren claims it's not even in the same ballpark as the 4K's interface when it comes to component quality.

JAH wrote:So now you want to compare an MPC 4000 to the Ren that cost 3x as much? That makes a lot of sense.