SSL Duende

Hello,

I read on the SSL site that there are problems with Leopard.

Other than this problem, would you recommend Duende?

Thanks,
Michael

SSL is in a class by it self, however Duende is nothing but headache its unstable, you'll find that after mixing or in the middle of the Mix Click, Crackles all sort of stuff start crawling out on you and this isn't even funny.

i was about to make the purchase a week ago and i had to cancel, after doing the research.

Fr.BlayZay.

I had nothing but great things to say about my Duende until my upgrade to Logic Studio & Leopard on a new Quad Core Mac Pro.
So now, all my mixes which used Duende in Logic 7 on my G5 are trash on the new platform. Amazing, since I have a lot of hardware and plugins here, and everything works fine except for Duende. Old mixes that do not use Duende are fine. On mixes that use Duende, the minute I bypass Duende (Logic's Bypass, not Duende's), everything clears up.
So. What are the possibilities?
1) it could be a setting in Logic 8 that I am not aware of (there's lots that's different in Logic 8)
2) it could be that the Duende 2.2 driver is crap in Leopard
I am inclined to think it's #2

A hah! Just visited SSL's site.
"There is currently a compatibilty issue with Duende in Mac OS 10.5 - Leopard. This issue manifests itself as fast audio drop-outs over tracks processed by Duende plug-ins. SSL will provide a fix for this as soon as possible. We recommend using Mac OS 10.4.10 which has been tested succesfully with Duende v2.2 software until the issue is resolved."
Not a problem. Duende is good enough to wait for the fix. In the meantime, my old mixes are mixed, and I am forced, at least for the moment, to MOVE ON.... 🙂

I know SSL duende doesn't work in 10.5, but does anybody have it working on a Mac Pro 8 or 4 core, running Logic and 10.4.10?

According to SSL's website the duende won't work on a Mac Pro 4 or 8 core, but from some of your setups, it seems people here have it working on their Mac Pros?

I want o purchase a duende to run on my Mac Pro with Logic, I just want to make sure it is compatible before I hand over my hard earned money!!!

it's only my opinion, but firewire interface is not good for using DSP cards... they run like a half speed of Gigabit ethernet...
and the Gigabit ethernet gives a lot of latency ....
Did you tried to use Logic Node?

it works fine but you will too much latency in order to use it in "Live mode".

I agree with you about the firewire, but I was just wanting to know if people have the duende working on either a 4 or 8 core Mac Pro?

Hi

Sorry to keep asking, but I really want to order one of these but there is no point if it won't run in Logic on a 8 core Mac.

Has anybody here got a Duende running in Logic on an 8 core Mac Pro?

I would appreciate any help in this matter.

I brought mine last week and it run fine on MACPRO 3.0 10.4.11 and logic 7.2.3. I have changed my eq and used Duende instead.
If I rememeber. it worked on LP 8
Let me check when I get home

Message was edited by: Yul Rarse

why not call SSL or your reseller? if it doesn't work return it.

Hi

Yul Rarse is your Mac Pro a 4 or 8 core?

Also Yul Rarse and Band on the Run I see you have the Liquid Mix, what do you think of it?

Thanks.

I love my liquid mix for the things it does and the emulations it provides, including the SSL emus. That said, I also have UAD-1e and got recently the Neve 88RS plug for it and it beats out anything I've ever used out there. It is simply gorgeous.

Hi

Thanks Band on the Run, I am now thinking I could get the UAD Nevada pack (2 cards) which contains all the Neve stuff for the same price as the duende. Do you feel that this would be a better move?

How do you feel the 88RS would compare to the duende?

Absolutely a better move, without question! The main reason for it is that Duende uses Firewire, UAD uses internal bus, so it keeps your Firewire bus open and free.

The 2 UAD cards is perfect, it's what I do. The 88RS can do 20 plugs per card. So it beats out Duende hands down.

I can't compared Neve 88RS to Duende: 1- I don't have Duende, 2- different hardware emus 🙂

Compared to LiquidMix, Liquid Mix's EQ and Compressesor emus for Neve are very good, but no 88RS emu so hard to compare. However, of the plugs that match up the UAD is better.

That Neve 88RS channel strip is truly phenomenal.

R