NAMM 2019 McDSP’s awesome APB-16

[miscend]

This is the most impressive thing I’ve seen at NAMM by McDSP a rack extension developer. It’s a 16 channel fully programmable analogue processing box. Basically a box of analogue circuits that can be configured into EQs, Comps, limiters, saturators controlled by a VST plugin with presets, recall, sample accurate automation etc etc. Basically Collin took the way his algorithms are coded in blocks and made them in to discrete circuits. The box has D/A and A/D but does all the processing in the analog domain - no computer, no DSP. It connects via thunderbolt and can be daisy chained for up to 96 channels.

[joeyluck]

Yeah this sounds really cool. Looking forward to learning more.

[QVprod]

Depending on how many processors you can have in a chain per channel this might be pretty revolutionary. Interested to see how deep this goes.

[Marco Raaphorst]

so McDSP says analog is better?

[O1B]

I like McDSP.

I like Green.
I like those specs...

2019 is 'bout to take you for an spin!

so McDSP says analog is better?

[selig]

so McDSP says analog is better?

Maybe Colin (love him!) is saying that many of his customers want analog and he has found a way to give it to them in a format that has a digital (recall, automation, etc.) workflow.

Or maybe he is saying digital sucks and he’s made a terrible mistake all these years.

Or maybe he’s not saying anything at all, just building cool new stuff. Because he can. Or because he’s bored building “software only” solutions. Or because he has run out of ideas for new plugins.

Who knows….


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[fieldframe]

It's just peculiar seeing an analog device come out from a company with, you know, "DSP" in its name!

I wonder, though, if we'll see a digital counterpart to this later, based on ELK.

[Crumbfort]

Looks very cool. I'd be even MORE interested if it wasn't thunderbolt only (unless I missed something?).