HardSid 4u General Consensus? (Page 1) - Other Hardware - Forums

1 Mar 11, 2015 1:32 am

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So, I've found a hardsid 4u for sale, and I always wanted something like a sidstation/sammichsid, and I've looked into it but I haven't been able to find any support or background information about the hardsid... So I was just wondering a) what people thought of it in general? b) how people actually use it in their set ups? c) does anyone know of any good demos on how it works/set ups etc.? and d) how much one is worth paying for?
Anything else that springs to mind worth knowing would be great too!

Thanks!!!

2 Mar 11, 2015 3:38 pm

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The major problem I had with mine, and the reason i sold it was that he wouldnt provide a signed driver so it became very difficult to run on Windows 7. If you dont mind hacking your windows 7 to run unsigned drivers it worked pretty well, but because it is a VST you might have trouble in modern DAWS and its no longer supported.

3 Mar 11, 2015 8:41 pm

Panda Chan

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Ah, right... sounds a bit risky... Thanks!

4 Mar 11, 2015 8:44 pm

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For anyone getting it, id recomend you get some cheap htpc and run it like a midi synth

5 Mar 12, 2015 12:15 am

Panda Chan

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Yeah, at this asking price it's probably not worth it... especially if it means having to buy a pc to control it as well... *sigh*

6 Mar 12, 2015 3:56 pm

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just for comparisons sammichsids seem to be going for like 300-500$ atm.

7 Mar 12, 2015 5:21 pm

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if there were decent tech support for this device, it would be great

unfortunately, there is not, and request for X or Y features is generally met with some hostility.

the general consensus on these machines is that in terms of hardware they really offer a lot, but the software-side/post-sale support is absolute shite