New IK Product, try and guess what it is!

[SKyflash34]

I would also say a DAW, but something geared more towards actual songwriting?

[H-Rezz]

Maybe not a DAW but a mixing interface(no editing features) like a console that can mimick cross-talk and induce phase like a console and also break up the more you push it ,it can be set up as an API,Neve and SSL console with more models coming in the future. Adding plug-in adds small amounts of phase shifts,again like a console+outboard , the internal channels are not matched 1 for 1 and can be calibrated ! The technology partly coming from their latest T-Racks emulations , with new technology specifically designed to simulate the non linear behaviour of analog ...... all testing shows a 98% similarity with the hardware counterparts ......

Thought of more ...

The concept is based around just mixing and not being bogged down with features , just super routable mixer and great automation , the idea being of working on tracks in your chosen DAW and then mixing in a different enviroment meant to take all things that get in the way out of the equation ....

Oh,Yeah and it has a dedicated control surface for all parameter's of the software, technology from their guitar based controllers ....

How's that for a wild wild guess, then i woke up and was only dreaming, hope there is a prize for the most creative guess ....

[Gie-Sound]

+1 for DAW
but in a mixing desk style...
so SSL mixer (bus + eq's + dynamics)
Neve mixer / API mixer

stuff like that?

[rectifier]

I reckon the Tracks 3 group buy and thus temporary lower pricing is perhaps a clue.... Milk as much money out of the individual plugs before.. they all become available for say 399 in a daw with sampler/guitar/bass plug ins as well as the tracks - to the point where if you were considering the individual plugs after the group buy, you'd just say - feck it I'll grab their daw.

[Jus]

Originally Posted by balaperdida

Everyone everywhere? How bout a cloud-based DAW.

Yep, the "re-invention of music making, for everyone, everywhere". It is definitely a cloud-based DAW. That's a new tool and a new market.

Something like this, but more advanced with midi capabilities and existing IK plugs: DAW in the Cloud | The Bus

And I guess they will have a new partner in developing it (a Finnish one, perhaps?).

[argomax]

In my opinion, knowing IK and being Italian myself, and knowing that GEM/GeneralMusic has gone out of business leaving a lot of engineers afloat, I could think of something along the lines of a Motif of Fantom workstation, with plugin loading but completely hardware. A full DAW with the likeness of a keyboard, capable of loading your (i guess only yours...) plugins, with either a soft-sequencer or a hardware one onboard, and audio ins and outs plus midi and firewire interfacing. Something, in fact, that has always been a holy graal of electronic musicians the last 10 yrs or so, as computer-only setups are helplessly awkward and nerdy (with no chance of growing out of it), and hardware-only setups, while way more practical and manly, are obviously limited in sonic and editing possibilities.
At least, that's what I would do.

A DAW, like logic or Cubase or whomever else, would be the stupidest thing to do for a company like IK: first of all, 90% of all users are already well-settled on their platform of choice and will not likely change, secondly there already are SOOO MANY unused possibilities and features in current DAWs, we don't really need another one to learn anew.

[Whitecat]

Originally Posted by Rockshamrover

Understandable I suppose.

So what USB devices would you be using on a plane?

Are you a beta tester for the new IK USB mystery device that can only be used at high altitude?

Portable hard disks and dongles, mainly! Usually the former.

[Dom & Roland]

Originally Posted by m127

Look at it as if it was a friend who phones you and tells you "guess what..."

Either tell me or don't !

[Benmrx]

Originally Posted by H-Rezz

Maybe not a DAW but a mixing interface(no editing features) like a console that can mimick cross-talk and induce phase like a console and also break up the more you push it ,it can be set up as an API,Neve and SSL console with more models coming in the future. Adding plug-in adds small amounts of phase shifts,again like a console+outboard , the internal channels are not matched 1 for 1 and can be calibrated ! The technology partly coming from their latest T-Racks emulations , with new technology specifically designed to simulate the non linear behaviour of analog ...... all testing shows a 98% similarity with the hardware counterparts ......

Thought of more ...

The concept is based around just mixing and not being bogged down with features , just super routable mixer and great automation , the idea being of working on tracks in your chosen DAW and then mixing in a different enviroment meant to take all things that get in the way out of the equation ....

Oh,Yeah and it has a dedicated control surface for all parameter's of the software, technology from their guitar based controllers ....

How's that for a wild wild guess, then i woke up and was only dreaming, hope there is a prize for the most creative guess ....

This is pretty much exactly what I'm waiting for. I posted something similar in one of the Waves threads. FWIW, you should check out McDSP's AC1 plug. I've gone in and made TONS of presets to help create a virtual console where all channels are not EXACTLY the same. Different curves for aux busses and routing busses, and even a couple "broken channels".

I WOULD LOVE to see a DAW that was focused on MIXING, and not editing, soft synths, elastic audio/flex, etc. That's why I was so stoked (at first) about Props. new "Record" program, but it seems to not really be what I was hoping for. It's sort of on the right track though.

IMO it's the ITB mixing that currently lacks.... not the editing, recording or composing features.

[ratti]

I still think the "Stay Tuned" is a big clue. I'm gonna guess some sort of pitch correction. I feel like the autotune effect is on everything anymore.

[cooker]

Originally Posted by Benmrx

This is pretty much exactly what I'm waiting for. I posted something similar in one of the Waves threads. FWIW, you should check out McDSP's AC1 plug. I've gone in and made TONS of presets to help create a virtual console where all channels are not EXACTLY the same. Different curves for aux busses and routing busses, and even a couple "broken channels".

I WOULD LOVE to see a DAW that was focused on MIXING, and not editing, soft synths, elastic audio/flex, etc. That's why I was so stoked (at first) about Props. new "Record" program, but it seems to not really be what I was hoping for. It's sort of on the right track though.

IMO it's the ITB mixing that currently lacks.... not the editing, recording or composing features.

Incase you missed it: AlexB Nebula Libraries - MWC

[Arksun]

Originally Posted by H-Rezz

Maybe not a DAW but a mixing interface(no editing features) like a console that can mimick cross-talk and induce phase like a console and also break up the more you push it ,it can be set up as an API,Neve and SSL console with more models coming in the future. Adding plug-in adds small amounts of phase shifts,again like a console+outboard , the internal channels are not matched 1 for 1 and can be calibrated ! The technology partly coming from their latest T-Racks emulations , with new technology specifically designed to simulate the non linear behaviour of analog ...... all testing shows a 98% similarity with the hardware counterparts ......

This is something I've been banging on for a while for one of the sequencer makers out there to do. I'm amazed no-ones taken the first step yet. Just think how awesome that would be, the built in mixer of your DAW has not only the standard straight digital mixing setting, but also various analogue modelling settings modelling cross talk, transformers etc etc.

It would have to be built into the sequencer as an insert wouldn't be able to do it.

Which one of the big guns will take the first step, apple? steinberg?. I think whoever did do that it would be a fantastic selling point.

[terrytee]

Yep me thinks it's gonna be a DAW

[H-Rezz]

I hope it's a DAM(Digital Audio Mixstation).

[matt thomas]

I notice this is the second such thread from IK. Recently they had "guess what 1000 people can get if they cooperate" teaser thread just before their group buy, I'm not sure that this is the intended use for this forum....

matt

[Benmrx]

Originally Posted by cooker

Incase you missed it: AlexB Nebula Libraries - MWC

I don't really know much about the Nebula thing, but isn't it basically a form of an Impulse response?

[argomax]

Originally Posted by parissound

Who gives a crap, very childish for a company asking these questions.

you are an a**hole.

[3rdeyeKnight]

Originally Posted by moracspace

I think its a POS!

I tried not to laugh at that. I failed miserably.

[hipass]

IK is going ilok!!!!!
so i don't have to waste time loosing my auths with that stoopid bug!

[JPeters86]

It's an analog tape saturation emulation for sure.

[EddieTheRed]

Originally Posted by Arksun

Which one of the big guns will take the first step, apple? steinberg?. I think whoever did do that it would be a fantastic selling point.

Propellerhead Software - Products - Record

[moma]

maybe a pod for singers ?...need to sound a little aretha franklinish...just press present 6...course autotuned and all this stuff. but I doubt it because andrew woulndt have tried it in a plane

cheers moma

[EddieTheRed]

Originally Posted by moma

maybe a pod for singers ?...need to sound a little aretha franklinish...just press present 6...course autotuned and all this stuff. but I doubt it because andrew woulndt have tried it in a plane

cheers moma

Unless it was in a plugin he was using on prerecorded material.

But I REALLY don't think you're even close

[JPeters86]

Originally Posted by parissound

Who gives a crap, very childish for a company asking these questions.

Why? They have my attention.

[chymer]

tape sim

[digitalson]

How bout a daw os???????

[argomax]

I think all you guys are very far off. Who wants to bet?
I'll paypal the money.

[Companda]

maybe a pod for singers ?...need to sound a little aretha franklinish...just press present 6...course autotuned and all this stuff. but I doubt it because andrew woulndt have tried it in a plane

I'd always have mine switched on Bohemian Rhapsody Harmony setting.

My personal guess:

A virtual Penis flute. Not something you put in your mouth but more on your penis....hmmm it said everyone...

Nevermind.

[Andrew Bach]

Originally Posted by argomax

I think all you guys are very far off. Who wants to bet?
I'll paypal the money.

Only problem is that you need to say what YOU think it is!

"Hey, I totally guessed that, even though I never told you I guessed that! Pay me!" doesn't exactly work.....

[feck]

I will tell you what I wish it was - something that someone should really do. A plugin that (take Nuendo for example) replaces the stock Nuendo mixer with a mixer that embeds whichever plugins (take UAD Neve channel strips for example) and incorporates their controls directly into the mixer, so instead of the eq on the mixer being the Nuendo eq's it would auto-map and graphically reflect the controls of the UAD Neve stuff, as a real console. So, a GUI virtual console. I would love to make them from the Waves API, UAD Neve, Waves Neve, Waves SSL, etc. Rather than have to have all the separate plug in GUI's along with Nuendo's mixer. Someday soon hopefully.