Ms Pinky First impressions/U46DJ crosstalk?/Binky Toy?
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:07 am
Hi everyone,
I got my Pinky system last night and thought I'd write down some first impressions. I bought a U46DJ to go with it and the of my setup is a 1 GHz alu powerbook running OS X 10.3.9, two SL1200 MK2 turntables and a cheap BST 2-channel mixer.
All in all the system (as in "the vinyl tracking") seems very solid and smooth. I haven't played around too much with I/O buffers but the latency seems sufficiently low for me (I'm no master turntablist.. YET!).
The only problem I've run into is that of hearing annoyingly loud levels of the vinyl control signal. When the output signal from the software (binky toy, maxi-patch) is low you clearly hear it. It's not only from the turntables since it's also present in for instance the headphone monitoring the mixer inputs. I hope I can find a way to solve or atleast reduce the problem but only explanation I can think of is that of crosstalk inside the U46 box which makes it kind of hard to do anything about it. Any other U46 user that has experienced anything similar? (Note: I do no think there's any "audio-through" going on since it's unchecked in Maxi-Patch and I suppose BinkyToy doesn't allow it at all. Enabling audio-through in Maxi-Patch logically makes the vinyl control signals really loud.)
Since my interest is in audio I think I would prefer to use Binky Toy instead of Maxi-Patch (mostly because of the simpler interface and bigger waveform displays). Moreover, Binky Toy does not seem to crash while permanently using U46DJ as the audio unit like Maxi-Patch does (as documentened in another thread in audio converter forum). Because of this I suspect that maybe Maxi-Patch could be fixed to prevent these startup crashes? Anyways, is Binky Toy discontinued in favor of Maxi Patch AO? One thread in the Binky Toy forum hinted that there were some major Tiger-esque (heavier use of the Core Audio framework) rewrite of Binky Toy to come -- is this true? Personally, I would really appreciate a new and improved Binky Toy. Would be really nice with AAC support (right now I'm transcoding AAC files I bought to MP3 - not pretty).
Anyways, thanks for a mighty cool system!
A plus tard,
Tobias
I got my Pinky system last night and thought I'd write down some first impressions. I bought a U46DJ to go with it and the of my setup is a 1 GHz alu powerbook running OS X 10.3.9, two SL1200 MK2 turntables and a cheap BST 2-channel mixer.
All in all the system (as in "the vinyl tracking") seems very solid and smooth. I haven't played around too much with I/O buffers but the latency seems sufficiently low for me (I'm no master turntablist.. YET!).
The only problem I've run into is that of hearing annoyingly loud levels of the vinyl control signal. When the output signal from the software (binky toy, maxi-patch) is low you clearly hear it. It's not only from the turntables since it's also present in for instance the headphone monitoring the mixer inputs. I hope I can find a way to solve or atleast reduce the problem but only explanation I can think of is that of crosstalk inside the U46 box which makes it kind of hard to do anything about it. Any other U46 user that has experienced anything similar? (Note: I do no think there's any "audio-through" going on since it's unchecked in Maxi-Patch and I suppose BinkyToy doesn't allow it at all. Enabling audio-through in Maxi-Patch logically makes the vinyl control signals really loud.)
Since my interest is in audio I think I would prefer to use Binky Toy instead of Maxi-Patch (mostly because of the simpler interface and bigger waveform displays). Moreover, Binky Toy does not seem to crash while permanently using U46DJ as the audio unit like Maxi-Patch does (as documentened in another thread in audio converter forum). Because of this I suspect that maybe Maxi-Patch could be fixed to prevent these startup crashes? Anyways, is Binky Toy discontinued in favor of Maxi Patch AO? One thread in the Binky Toy forum hinted that there were some major Tiger-esque (heavier use of the Core Audio framework) rewrite of Binky Toy to come -- is this true? Personally, I would really appreciate a new and improved Binky Toy. Would be really nice with AAC support (right now I'm transcoding AAC files I bought to MP3 - not pretty).
Anyways, thanks for a mighty cool system!
A plus tard,
Tobias