Great to see use of eTap2 on this forum! It was designed to be used for this purpose in mind. The w&f feature was lost in action due to some compiler problems not yet fully understood by me. There are a couple of reasons why this product delivers, the echo tail, as an example, was created after about 40 hours of developing and calibrating. PeterK was one of the guys checking it on a daily bases until the tail was as the longtom machine. The injection of harmonics and noise and tape/valve characteristics was also contributed key elements. Jacob's accurate building of the JPatches is also a major contributor to the fine performance of this product.
With the forthcoming hardware solution I'm assuming a product that's at least better then the magic stomp/Q20 as a first version ( 65 euro exclusive pot meters, selectorswitch and 12volt mains adaptor). The second version is assumed by me as potential best in class as the artifacts are kept outside the DSP unit. The actual status is pre-pilot build 100% success and kits are ready for shipment to the pilot group. Before shipment takes place I need to get a first echomatic version in the unit so the pilot group can start using the unit. They will be requested to exchange the unit later in time to get the total final load of emulations.
With respect to porting etap2 to other environments. This would only be considered if I would know a wider audience for this product. Remember that most of the users of eTap2 are not in the target group initialy defined . As a last remark, it's all labor of love [see footnote] work I do to keep the brain warm during wintertime. It's part of one of my many hobby's like creating liqueurs, roasting my coffee beans and creating apps for the Apple environment. For the last two months I'm very busy with social affairs ( a hardware interrupt
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Piet
What's that pre-pilot/pilot nonsense? It's not a pilot certificate but...The pre-pilot is a build with , if required some handholding support, this process is to assure the documentation like instructions, fit of components kit are up-to-date. Based on this pre-pilot the decision was made to change one capacitor's value as a precaution and adding a couple of resistors to allow for the DIY person to adjust the LED's to an acceptable light output by selecting the best resistor. Pilot build is the process of building it without handholding just based on provided information and kit.
[footnote] Labour of love is free stuff. most people think it's not up to the standard compared with what you buy. Let's do some calculations here:
300 hours development = 12000 Euro + 80 hours patch development = 3200 Euro + acquired software = 300 = 15500 Euro
The total cost to produce is 15500 Euro's lets say we've sold 500 units that would (UMC unit manufacturing cost) cost 31 Euro and the cost to you 3* 31 =93 Euro. For 100 units UMC would be 155 Euro's and the cost to you 465 Euro's. There is no sane commercial person in the world that would even considering taking the risk in building this and making money out of it. So it's an unique module with extended capabilities you never can acquire through commercial channels!