VST footpedal from SM Audio

[leigh]

Don't know if anyone caught this product announcement:

"The V-Pedal has been specifically designed for guitarists wanting to take the best guitar plug-ins (and more) out on the road in a rock-solid 'all in one' hardware unit..."

http://www.smproaudio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73

Looks awesome, available in Sept '08, and pricey, according to the video here:

http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=9886

[Austin73]

God I wanted one! ..................that is till I heard the price! 1295 euros plus buying the plugins !

Wife would kill me and I'm sure its god but not worth that especially as a laptop cost £300 quid these days

Thanks for pointing it out and I'm sure one day they'll be cheaper.

Cheers

Aus

[SeanCostello]

I'm not sure that the price is too high:

- It probably uses a Nano-ITX or Pico-ITX motherboard, with a VIA C3 or C7 processor. The C7 has SSE2 and SSE3, which I feel would be critical for running many current plugins that are optimized for SIMD assembly.
- You need RAM, a FLASH hard drive, power supply, etc.
- Add in a high quality CODEC, plus power supply conditioning.
- The operating system is probably Linux, running one of the VST plugin enablers available (using WINE, the VST SDK, and other things).
- Add in the knobs, and an LCD screen for viewing parameters.
- Put everything in a sturdy box.
- Last but not least, add in the hours needed to get such a system working.

It would cost many hundreds of $ just to assemble such a system, and the programming would be daunting.

Interestingly enough, it sounded like the V-Box was 399 euros, although I may have misheard things due to the accent.

Sean Costello

[Austin73]

yes all valid points but explain that to my wife! AND yes the V Box was 399 but didn't have audio input.

Aus

[ollie]

Interestingly enough, it sounded like the V-Box was 399 euros, although I may have misheard things due to the accent.

He did definitely say (twice in fact) that the vbox was 399 euros

That's a really cool idea but much too pricey for someone like me

[ConanB]

Call me a silly coder but I would have thought there would be many systems like this available. The amount of audio manipulation systems available for gaming is crazy, I guess I just assumed people already had setups like this.

[JimRayden]

Call me a silly coder but I would have thought there would be many systems like this available. The amount of audio manipulation systems available for gaming is crazy, I guess I just assumed people already had setups like this.

Well these boxes are essentially laptop computers crammed into a metal box with a tiny screen, VST-people have been fine with a laptop on stage, no need for a dedicated box (but it had to come sooner or later, given the unstability of operation systems these days  ).

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Jimbo

[flo]

... AND yes the V Box was 399 but didn't have audio input.

The SM Pro Audio V-Machine now has a stereo audio input on mini-jack!
It can load VST plugins and VSTi instruments so it can be used as a virtual FX rack.
http://www.smproaudio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74

I think it can be great to use on stage for modulating and delay types of FXs for guitar when a laptop is a bit to flimsy/unstable. Put NI-Reaktor into it and some crazy modulating FXs patches and jam away...

It becomes available here in Europe at the end of October 2008, price is 499 euros = $730. That puts it right between the V-Box and the

[flo]

Oops forgot to finish my sentence...
That price puts it right between the V-Box, which seems to be replaced with the V-Machine, and the V-Pedal.

[MetalGuy]

It probably uses a Nano-ITX or Pico-ITX motherboard, with a VIA C3 or C7 processor. The C7 has SSE2 and SSE3, which I feel would be critical for running many current plugins that are optimized for SIMD assembly.

How about getting an Asus eee PC for ~$300 and using it only for that? Maybe that will save you some 1k Euro.