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Hi Jim
I've had the Duende for about a year and a half now and I love the sound of the thing. The stability issues are just such a shame though and I really hope that you guys get this one licked really soon. I have a UAD-2 card also and it's rock solid when it comes to software stability, which makes all the difference.
I'm running on Duende V2 at the moment as V3 was a total disaster for me on OSX 10.5 and Logic 8 /9. For the most part it's useable, I only use the Channel Strip, the Bus Comp and occasionally the Drumstrip. The biggest problem I am having seems to be with the GUI crashing Logic. I cannot use screensets at all for this reason which is one of the most useful functions in Logic for me. I tend to have different screensets for different instrument groups so I can flick between screensets straight to the open plugins and make adjustments nice and quickly. This is something I just can't do now with the Duende because if I leave a Duende plugin open on a screenset and then change screenset, Logic will crash. So I have to close each SSL plugin before changing screenset and then open them all up again on the screenset I've changed to. It's a real frustration for me and slows down my workflow considerably.
I have contacted SSL about this issue before and was told that it is known about. In any case I just wanted to point it out to you here so it can be taken into consideration while you guys are fine tuning the latest Duende update. I really hope you nail it this time. Such a potentially great product deserves to have the work and resources put into it to make it reliable for it's users. UAD have definitely managed to do this and there's no reason SSL can't. It needs to happen soon though because I think that reputations really are at stake here. It's been a long time now since the Duende's release and there have been reliability issues from the start. I wish you the very best of luck with it all... fingers are crossed.
Jack Cooke
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