The availability of symptomological data on the Internet undoubtedly makes the user feel empowered enough to be able to question diagnoses of doctors with multiple years of study and practice. Online symptom-checkers have been found to be accurate only 34% of the time, with the correct diagnosis appearing among the top twenty results in less than 60% of all cases.
Most of this self-diagnosis takes place on the Internet, where multiple websites are happy to provide tools to identify one’s disease through a series of multiple-choice questions. One in four people self-diagnoses as an substitute for visiting the doctor. Nowhere is this illusion more evident than in medicine. While the positive effects of making a vast repository of knowledge conveniently available to the general public cannot be understated, neither can the illusoriness of the sense of knowledgeability created by access to an unlimited supply of information. But he dares to tell me that designs have changed nowadays! Based on what? Google Images!”Ĭlearly, increased awareness of the powers of the Internet has had its impact on fields whose knowledge was hitherto limited to the dingy corners of large libraries. This kid can hardly distinguish a chimney from a cooling tower, and I know he’s never even been to a plant, far from interning in one.
“I’ve spent half my life leading powerplant projects. Yes, I know all about the UAD Liverack and I'm sure all this is possible in its software, but it's only Quad processing compared to the 12 I have now & I do also use the Analogue I/O on the Apollos.During a recent seminar, I overheard a professor irately recall a viva he had just taken. Any insert effects would be recalled using the normal Save/Load menu in console. If it were possible to 'recall safe' channel strips and/or individual plugins that would make for a perfect solution to this problem. I know I can use the UAD plugins in Liveprofessor, but one of the things I really like using UAD console is that it doesn't fall over if the host computer crashes. The only way I can see round this at the moment is to separate the system and have, say, 2 Apollos on one macbook for inserts and the third on a second macbook for FX. As soon as the next FX snapshot was fired the insert channels would revert to their previous state. Tedious and prone to error - certainly no way it could be done mid show.
an eq or compressor - and have the changes reflected over the whole show, I'd have to make the same tweak and update every snapshot for every song. The problem is that if I want to tweak any plugins - eg. in console and have snapshots for FX parameters for each song, all fired from Liveprofessor or whatever. I recently discovered the console recall plugin and thought I'd hit the jackpot - Goodbye Waves forever - I'd be able to run UAD reverbs etc.
Up to this point I've been using it like a very flexible outboard rack. This has been working well & is rock solid. I'm using a MADI to Adat converter to allow me to insert plugin chains via console at very low latency.
I've been using a couple of Silver face Apollo 8s in a live situation for a year or so & it's been a game changer. I have a feeling this may be a bit niche but if you don't ask. First post - sorry if this has been discussed before but a search didn't bring anything up.