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Note: This is a repost from the original MachineHead wiki forum.

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Isaku Higa, 2007/05/24 01:23:

Hi, I downloaded the application a couple weeks ago and have been playing around with it. It is a nice looking application and with the functionality that I am looking for. I have few suggestions:

1. Can you add a “true” by-pass mode to by pass all the controls?

2. CD eject: If I use the machine head to play the CD, I can not eject it unless I quit the application. Is there a fix for this?

2. Sound quality: I am wondering if you could make changes to improve the sound quality. As an audiophile, I am looking for a best sounding software for Mac that can automatically play the all songs in a CD. Some of the mastering/recording software (such as Peak, Cubase) and DJ software (Future Decks) sounds wonderful but they can play one song at a time ( Windows version of Cubase can play all the songs on a CD but not the Mac version.) I think your application will be a hit if you can make it to sound as good or better than those applications.

FYI, I use a your software in Powerbook G4 12 inch with 1.2 GHZ CPU and 1 GB memory plus “audiophile” DAC with USB input.

Thanks, Isaku

Mark Hill, 2007/06/19 16:40:

Hi Isaku,

Thanks for your feedback

1: In the next version there is way to disable all effects with a single click. (Note this is now included in version 0.7b)

2: When you want to eject a CD after using it in MachineHead, make sure to start playback of a track NOT from the CD; this will unload the last CD track from memory & the Finder will then let you eject the CD.

3: Sound Quality: I will look at providing access to some other expert-level settings that should allow you to maximise the sound quality level. At the end of the day, MachineHead uses CoreAudio for sound processing, so it will always only ever be as good as CoreAudio itself allows.

That said, there is one very important setting you can modify, which is the Quality setting for the Warp (Time &Pitch) effect. This is set from the Quality popup button on the Audio Inspector, under the ‘Warp’ section.

By default this is set to ‘Medium’, to save some CPU cycles on older hardware, but 1GHz + G4’s, G5’s & Intel’s should be able to go to ‘Maximum’ without too much trouble. THis will make an immediate improvement in sound quality when using Time & Pitch shifting.

Cheers,

Mark Hill

MachineCodex Software