Hmm..

Ich hatte mal 600 Euronen für ein solches Teil bezahlt...

Für diesen Preis geistern die aber schon Jahre durchs Netz....

Viola da Gamba

Dieser Expander steht zwar auf meiner Wunschliste, aber der geforderte Preis ist schon arg hoch gegriffen . . .
Vielleicht muss man einfach Geduld haben.

Mit morgendlichem Gruß

Flauten

Hallo Martin,
nur nicht die Geduld verlieren und insbesondere den niederländischen Markt im Auge (via marktplaats.nl) und für D eBay-Kleinanzeigen - behalten.
Dort bieten ihn Händler schon mal für unter 1000,-€ mit einem Jahr Garantie an. Dann auf jeden Fall darauf achten, daß er vom Betriebssystem geupdatet ist und die neue Stimmenbibliothek bereits aufgespielt ist .
lbG clm

Ich würde auch warten.

What’s so special with this box to be on the wish list of someone?

However, this module is not based on Physis. It was Viscount's first "experiment" with physical modeling, but it should be noted that his voices (although they may like it) do not have the quality of Physis voices.
The hardware is also much inferior (and different) to that used on Physis.
In my opinion the asking price is insane.

Speaking of expanders and old technologies: a few days ago I played a Mass in a church where there was an Ahlborn SL250.
In the early 2000s I bought an SL300 which was the big brother with three keyboards, but shared the exact same technology (along with the even bigger brothers Hymnus).
Well, I was amazed at how "sterile" and electronic it sounded, and I wondered how I managed to stay 8 years with the SL300..
The problem was not in the quality of the samples, but in how much digital noise there was in the reproduction of the samples, and how sterile the short samples emerged.
It might perhaps sound more convincing with speakers away from the console in reverberating acoustics, but for near field listening from the console speakers the sound was really artificial.
But hey, this was 1994 technology and by then it was great!
I have seen that there is still a certain market around Ahlborn expanders (same technology as SL/Hymnus), and if someone likes them it is right that they are, but I wonder: they are really sold (and bought) at prices close to 1000 EUR?
In my opinion, these are crazy prices! Such old electronic devices shouldn't be worth more than 100 euros..

I asked because it’s not the first time that I see some excitement about this product on the web. And knowing that it is old technology, with all its limitations, I was really surprised about the hype. No doubt that it can easily satisfy some expanding requirements for existing instruments and yet… am perplexed

Eines der Tierchen deines Zoos erkenne ich irgendwie wieder

LG Bernd

@ Wichernkantor,
Yes, I understand that these expanders can be liked (and I have no doubt that your custom ones really sound excellent), but I remember seeing one of these on sale in Italy a short time ago, at a price of over a thousand euros.
For me it is something absurd...

The main limitation of the Hymnus technology was the presence of very high digital noise, which was tiring in the long run.
I remember my SL300 had some particularly noisy stops, while others were very good.
My model was also equipped with a receiver and remote control in order to take advantage of all the voicing functions of the Hymnus series (which I had installed. These models were sold without a remote control to justify minor functions at a lower price, but the platform was identical to the Hymnus series. Just plug in the receiver and the software is already set up for voicing).
I had adjusted the wind noise to lower levels, but this digital noise always remained.
Maybe it was a noise already present in the samples and therefore not eliminable, or maybe some sort of noise introduced in the DAC conversion, but I remember well that in some stops it was annoying.