Super Booth 2018 new DSI-X

afr · Post by **afr** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:12 pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiFHNuog5gU/

New DSI-X

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:50 pm

Here's the YouTube teaser and a picture:

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 7:21 pm

Can we have a desktop version of this, with all controlls...

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:20 pm

Is it my imagination, or does the right top of the keyboard say 8DIO? As in the creators of many kontakt libraries?

The layout looks like the prophet 12, but instead of 4 oscilators, the mixer says : instrument 1, 2 Oscilator 1, 2..

It could be something really new...

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:48 pm

Bachus wrote:Is it my imagination, or does the right top of the keyboard say 8DIO? As in the creators of many kontakt libraries?

Yep, that's 8DIO, the company which has made a lot of Kontakt libraries.
This combination of Dave Smith and 8DIO makes me very curious what this synth has onboard.

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 3:22 am

Jan1 wrote:
Bachus wrote:Is it my imagination, or does the right top of the keyboard say 8DIO? As in the creators of many kontakt libraries?
Yep, that's 8DIO, the company which has made a lot of Kontakt libraries.
This combination of Dave Smith and 8DIO makes me very curious what this synth has onboard.

Yes this synth makes me more excited about superbooth then about the whole musikmesse

Post by **Sharp** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 11:34 am

The letters 8DIO has me interested for sure.

I wonder if it's exapndable.

Sharp.

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:11 pm

Actually, I'm surprised that this kind of collaboration hasn't happened more often: one company specialized in developing high quality content, the other experienced in making the hardware to run it.
Both can benefit from it and neither of them have to reinvent the wheel from scratch.
Maybe it's time for Roland to contact Eric Persing?

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:52 pm

Jan1 wrote:Actually, I'm surprised that this kind of collaboration hasn't happened more often: one company specialized in developing high quality content, the other experienced in making the hardware to run it.
Both can benefit from it and neither of them have to reinvent the wheel from scratch.
Maybe it's time for Roland to contact Eric Persing?

Dave Smith often works with others, like last year with pioneer..

But i do agree, why doesn’t this happen more? Integration between hardware and software seems the one thing most people are on the watch for..

skinmechanic · Post by **skinmechanic** » Sun Apr 29, 2018 8:26 am

Well Roland needs to now replace their version of the Rompler/Synth hybrid the JDXA with something a bit more finished and complete, as this is a perfect replacement for that.

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Tue May 01, 2018 5:50 pm

https://youtu.be/hAZfdlIX6Cc

More video’s from 8dio here :

https://youtu.be/wzQXGW8ndH4

Just go to their channel for a couple more video’s..

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Tue May 01, 2018 6:01 pm

Here are the specs...

150 GB samples on board...
This is huge..

Price 4k, also huge...

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Tue May 01, 2018 6:04 pm

Dave Smith sure has his finger on the pulse. Bet this will sell tons.

skinmechanic · Post by **skinmechanic** » Tue May 01, 2018 8:53 pm

At that price point it won't sell tonnes, but i'm sure it will be successful.

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Tue May 01, 2018 11:52 pm

This is one heck of an impressive synth, and I certainly did not expect something like this from DSI.
On the site of 8DIO there's more information about the specifics and short demos of the sounds (which display a lot of character).
Apparently it's an expandable synth which also will (by December) allow samples created by users to be loaded into it.
On DSI's site there's also more info about this new synth.