Neve 1081 -- No \"click on silkscreen text\" to specify freq

[Hoagie]

Playing with the demo of the Neve 1081... It sounds great, but I'm having issues with the GUI interface. The manual states that one can \"click directly on the 'silkscreen' text to specify a frequency or disable the band.\" (v.4.5 Manual, p.248) This doesn't work for me, in DP 4.6, OS 10.3.9. Bug or operator error?

All other aspects of the Neve GUI do function as indicated (e.g., clicking on shelving symbols to increment freq.)

More generally, I'll echo those who've observed that UA would do well to faithfully model the guts of a given box, while availing themselves of the modern conveniences that a plug-in interface can offer. In the particular case of the 1081, it would be great to, say, double-click the knob to get a pop-up field in which to enter a precise freq value. Or even something as simple as making the indicators on the rings a bright color (rather than black and white on grey) so that they can be seen from more than a few feet away.

I suppose that UA thinks, with regard to how authentic the model is perceived to be by potential customers, that \"seeing is believing\" is as important as \"hearing is believing.\" But, I mean, we're making music here -- the authenticity should be about the *sound*.

How 'bout an option-click to reveal a hidden \"back panel\" with numerical entry fields? Maybe even an FFT display... sacrilege!

Hoagie Hill

 

[Matt Hepworth]

Re: Neve 1081 -- No \"click on silkscreen text\" to specify fr

I suppose that UA thinks, with regard to how authentic the model is perceived to be by potential customers, that "seeing is believing" is as important as "hearing is believing." But, I mean, we're making music here -- the authenticity should be about the *sound*.
Hoagie Hill

Hmmm.... I don't think we'd like the sound as much if it didn't look like a real 1081.

 

[Hoagie]

Re: Neve 1081 - No \"click on silkscreen\" to specify freq

Hmmm.... I don't think we'd like the sound as much if it didn't look like a real 1081.

Well, that's just it. For some folks -- some more than others -- the visual unconsciously influences their impressions of the aural. Humans are funny that way.

Just as a point of curiousity (I'm not lookin' for an argument), some guy in the Unicornation forum posted about a test wherein he compared *one setting* of the Neve buss comp with what he could get out of the 1176, using the flipped-polarity nulling technique. Supposedly the two files nulled virtually completely, leading him to conclude that he didn't need the Neve plug-in.

To me, all that says is that in at least one case, one can get the 1176 to do something similar to what the Neve will do. It doesn't say anything about how unique the Neve might be on other settings.

But now you've helped my hijack the thread I started. I'm not getting the correct GUI behavior out of the 1081, yet the rest of my setup works fine. Anyone else seen this weirdness?

-- Hoagie

 

[Emusic1]

Hi there Hoagie, just checked the 1081 in DP5.11 and clicking on the frequencies works as expected. Maybe its a DP4.6 thing?