[dishkyun]

Probably a dumb question. But could someone explain what is Tube Saturator? Is it something I can use with foobar or winamp as a plugin to simulate tube sound?!

 

[bjhohoho]

For Blackberry lovers, this month is very exciting month. Research in Motion (RIM) is launching two new handset very soon - the Blackberry Strom and Blackberry Bold 9700 . Both are aimed at different markets and are very much improved over their predecessors. The Blackberry Storm 2 as we know is the second-generation Storm handset and comes with BBM 5.0 and an improved touch-sensitive screen, much better than the original Storm. And some of the features of the Blackberry 9700 are much the same as the Storm 2, 3.2-megapixel camera, 3G support and Wi-Fi. The difference end there, as the Bold 2 is not a touch screen and is aimed at a different user, as the handset is more for business use. People can’t wait for them coming. Now, Verizon has confirmed that the Blackberry Storm 2 has been headed to the carrier on October 28th. But it is also a secret which date the Blackberry 9700 will be published. In this article I have summarized both of them devices’ features and what are their relative and essential programs.

Blackberry Strom2
· 4.4 by 2.4 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weight 5.6 ounces; Black; high resolution 480*360 screen displays over 65,000 colors
· 3.2 MP camera featuring auto-focus and auto-flash
· Battery life – CDMA: 11.2 days standby, 5.5 hours of talk time; GSM: 12.7 days standby, 5 hours of talk time; UMTS: 11.7 days standby, 6 hours of talk time
· Link to wireless networks or hotspots with Wi-Fi connectivity.
· On screen keyboard: Portrait SureType? and Multi-tap, QWERTY landscape and portrait
· Blackberry Media Player
· 256 MB Flash memory, 2GB eMMC
· Bluetooth v2.1+EDR; Mono/Stereo Headset, Handsfree, Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP), and Serial Port Profile Supported. Bluetooth Stereo Audio (A2DP/AVCRP), DUN

Blackberry Bold 9700
· 4.29 by 2.36 by 0.56 inches and weight 4.3 ounces (including battery); high resolution 480*360 screen that displays over 65,000 colors;
· 3.2 MP camera featuring auto-focus and auto-flash
· Battery life – CDMA: 11days standby, 5.5 hours of talk time; GSM: 12days standby, 5 hours of talk time; UMTS: 12days standby, 6hours talktime;
· Link to wireless networks and support Wi-Fi connectivity
· Full QWERTY
· Blackberry Media Player
· 256 MB Flash memory, 256 MB eMMC
· Bluetooth v2.1, Mono/Stereo Headset, Handsfree, Serial Port Profile, Bluetooth Stereo Audio (A2DP/AVCRP), Bluetooth SIM Access Profile Supported
That’s the simple information I have got about the two phones. In many other aspects, both have the same characteristics, for example, Device Security (Password protection, Screen lock, Sleep mode, Optional support for S/MIME), Wireless email, Organizer, Browser, and Notification etc.
For multimedia, Blackberry Phone is advanced media player for videos, music and pictures. Blackberry Strom2 supports video formats including MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV and audio formats including MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus, and so on. While Blackberry Bold 9700 supports video formats, such as, Divx 4, Divx 5/6, H.263, H.264, WMV3, MPEG4 and so on, and audio formats such as 3GP, MP3, WMA9,WMA9 Pro/WMA 10, MIDI, AMR-NB, and so on . Meanwhile, I find the Blackberry could not support all of video or audio files such as AVI file, FLV file and so on. So I search this problem on the Google and find powerful software to let me enjoy wonderful experience with Blackberry Phone – Nidesoft Blackberry Video Converter. It could convert video and audio files to your Blackberry movie and music format. The source files formats that could be converted by this Blackberry Video Converter include: MPEG, VOB, MP4, M4V, WMV, ASF, AVI, 3GP, FLV, YouTube, etc. Additionally, you could use this Blackberry Converter to convert MOD to Blackberry video. To free download it here and have a try: http://www.nidesoft.com/downloads/bl...-converter.exe
and you may get more information about it here: Nidesoft BlackBerry Video Converter - Best BlackBerry Converter, Convert Video to BlackBerry Storm
After download and install this software, you may get video into your Blackberry this way:
Step 1: Click “Add File” button to import your videos from your computer.

Step 2: Click the “format” drop-down list to select the Blackberry format
Step 3: Click the “convert” button and start the conversion.
Ok, after the conversion finished, you may get the movies and music for your Blackberry.
Another, I know Nidesoft DVD to Blackberry Converter is an excellent Blackberry Video tool which could convert DVD to Blackberry video and music. If you want to enjoy your DVD with Blackberry, you may try it! It is easy to see these two software is the best assistants for Blackberry

Now, the Blackberry Strom has lunched on the market and the Blackberry Bold 9700 will be published soon. Both have been given considerable thought on the market. Minor changes having a major impact, give them little bit more standing in comparison to his predecessor and his current competitors. Under in this area, the mobile phone technology develops quickly and the mobile phone competition is more and more severe. As a blackberry lover, I hope they can take the good sales performance

 

[darkswordsman17]

I'm not sure, the requirements for Windows are:
A host program that supports the DirectX, VST, or RTAS plug-in architecture.

Wow, $150, it'd better be damn good. There is a demo you could try. Says its CPU intensive, so you'd probably better have a quad core if you want to use it while doing other things.

 

[fatcat28037]

It appears to me to be a way to seperate you from you money.

 

[dishkyun]

Well it does appear tad expensive to be a plugin!

 

[etiolate]

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkswordsman17 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm not sure, the requirements for Windows are: A host program that supports the DirectX, VST, or RTAS plug-in architecture. Wow, $150, it'd better be damn good. There is a demo you could try. Says its CPU intensive, so you'd probably better have a quad core if you want to use it while doing other things.

quad core might be over doing it...

$150 is nuts though. especially since it's just a digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm (and i'm an electrical engineering grad student that studies DSP) to emulate tubes or something. that money would be much better spent towards real tubes and a better DAC or something rather than software IMO.

 

[Stitch]

"Tube amp plug-in"
Does it make your hdd glow?

For 150 bucks im sure there is some nice tube amp that does the trick better.

 

[birchre]

This is primarily designed for use in an audio recording application, not an audio playback application. Not that you couldn't use it as one, but it seems as though it would be more of a detriment to the source than an improvement. Now if you're digitally recording some sweet guitar riffs in your basement this would give you plenty of 1's and 0's disguised as warm tube sound.

 

[dcpoor]

just wondering, has anyone tried the demo?

 

[Sherwood]

Tube saturation is a mild distortion. $150 is by no means ridiculous if it's good, but I haven't heard it to say whether it is or not. In any case, it's an extremely bad idea to use this for playback, as it would just apply equal distortion to everything you listened to. Good tube amps aren't good because of distortion, they're good despite distortion.

 

[Adda]

If it's made to be used for music production, that would explain the price.