RE-201 - Functionality Question

[neil wilkes]

So, the RE-201 will chew up half of a whole card then, just like Nigel does.
In this case, is it possible - as with Nigel - to only load up the components required to save on DSP?
For example - suppose all I want is tape saturation. Can I load a saturation module?

Or am I stuck with having hald a card on just the delay?

 

[Tony Ostinato]

im pretty sure its not seperated into any modules, at least not yet.

still downloading.

 

[OisteinR]

The performance meter shows 15 - 35% depending on what presets you use.

 

[OisteinR]

BTW: I thought I was getting a brand new plugin - the GUI tells me it's been used for a while.... :mrgreen:

 

[erlijohn]

Just tried it on some vocal tracks - and I can say for sure: I'm going to buy it!!! Very soon!!!

 

[neil wilkes]

The performance meter shows 15 - 35% depending on what presets you use.

That's cool!
In the compatibility matrix it says I will only get 2 instances on a single card.
Okay, got 2 in the DAW so no real drama - but it looks like it's time for number three any day now...hey! I got an excuse! "Her Indoors" will have to prise open the company credit card.
Yay! :lol:

 

[sj_digriz]

The number of instances is based on having everything turned on. The number of heads used adds to the CPU usage, as does the Reverb.

 

[Cabbage]

What is using the most juice, the reverb or the delays?

Petter

 

[sj_digriz]

What is using the most juice, the reverb or the delays?
Petter

Using the delays with the reverb uses the most :roll:

 

[polygen]

i'm running 4 uad cards in a magma chassis connected to a dual 1.8 gig g5 pci

1 instance of re201 stereo in logic pro 7.2, readings from uad performance meter

reverb only: cpu 4% mem 3%
delay only: cpu 6% mem 3%
r+d: cpu 8% mem 3%

loading 6 stereo instances with reverb and delay running gives 48-49% cpu and 20% memory load.
6 stereo instances verb only show 25% cou, 20% memory load.
6 stereo instances with delay only show 40-41% cpu and 20% memory load!!

it sounds really good...pretty real, makes everything sound really dubby n deep. love the spring reverb in particular.

what really, really sucks though is that they stuck to the original too much: it's mono. yep, thats right...the virtual tape inside is mono, so is the reverb. you can only pan them left or right.

 

[podel]

The mono thing I can live with, but I've been disappointed since the first announcement of the RE-201 that UA didn't choose the RE-301 instead. It's got chorus and a terrific sound-on-sound mode, which imho makes it a better machine.

Well, while I'm looking at my RE-301 now and thinking about changing the tape, I'm listenig the the UAD RE-201 and must say it sounds pretty good! 8--)

 

[polygen]

yeah, i used to have the chorus echo, too....that would have rocked, but you could probably sort of emulate the chorus with the ce1

 

[Eric Dahlberg]

The mono thing I can live with, but I've been disappointed since the first announcement of the RE-201 that UA didn't choose the RE-301 instead. It's got chorus and a terrific sound-on-sound mode, which imho makes it a better machine.

Someone before said the 201 uses all discrete electronics & is thus a better sounding unit. I seem to remember my 150 sounding better than my 555 but it's hard to tell with these things with so much to go wrong on them!

 

[polygen]

anyway...the UAD-201 made my day, started me off on a killer new track. i'll use the advance on the tune to pay for the delay

 

[neil wilkes]

i'm running 4 uad cards in a magma chassis connected to a dual 1.8 gig g5 pci

1 instance of re201 stereo in logic pro 7.2, readings from uad performance meter

reverb only: cpu 4% mem 3%
delay only: cpu 6% mem 3%
r+d: cpu 8% mem 3%

loading 6 stereo instances with reverb and delay running gives 48-49% cpu and 20% memory load.
6 stereo instances verb only show 25% cou, 20% memory load.
6 stereo instances with delay only show 40-41% cpu and 20% memory load!!

So I double those figures, as I only have 2 cards.
Thank you for the info - my demo has not started yet, as am in the middle of a DVD project and don't want to waste it.

@ Eric.
I have no idea what is inside these - I used to have one of these as well as a 555, and never did like the 555 as much - it was always a lot harder to get the right sound from it than the 201.

 

[rydan]

No, pleeease, not another \"mono\" plugin. For me, the mono:ism of preflex is the main reason not to use it. Now, I think I really have to consider whether to get the 201 or not...

 

[Horse]

Try the demo -

The fact that you can pan the reverb and delay lends it a strangely spacious quality.

 

[polygen]

yes, echo left-ish and verb right-ish sounds nice, but that's a workaround. why mono only? i guess because UA just couldn't come up with a way to make their customers like the idea of 1 card per instance (!) of re201 in stereo. the way it is now, it looks bad, but not *that* bad, to someone interested in the stats aka UA's instance count charts...you get 3 mono or 2 \"stereo\" instances, right? lol.
i'd half expected that, like with the plate 140, you'd get some \"welcome to 2006\" parameters in the controls display, like panning of individual tape heads, on/off switch for the emulation of non-exact delay times due to head restrictions, perhaps access to the wow+flutter intensity. nada. i admit...the re201 clones the original extremely accurately, and that is exactly what the stated objective was, so it is WELL DONE. but i think that some optional enhancements would make a lot of sense, after all it *is* 2006....

 

[svs95]

yes, echo left-ish and verb right-ish sounds nice, but that's a workaround. why mono only? <snip> after all it *is* 2006....

The Space Echo is a mono unit. :roll:

This is physically modelled after the actual classic piece of kit, under license and in cooperation with its original manufacturer.

The real object of adding pan controls is to allow (encourage?) dynamic panning, which is a totally stereo thing to do, and is a suffuciently authentic use of the sound, as this can be done easily enough with the orginal and a mixer.

"Life's the same I'm moving in stereo" the Cars

 

[polygen]

yes, that's part of what i said, and thanks for your lecture on a piece of kit which i used to own and to which i still have acces....maybe you just didn't read my post. whatever.
i just think you can overdo the \"stick to the original\" thing; *additional* stuff in the controls view wouldn't hurt authenticity at all, would they? the la2a was mono too, so was the 1176. i've got both in hardware, does that make me disappointed about the plugins because they're stereo? lol, no. i love that about them. so the fact that the original spaceecho is mono doesn't seem a valid explanation for why the plugin is mono.