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The Big Picture
The Eventide H8000FW is a programmable, multi-channel, multipurpose, 96kHz-capable,
dual or monolithic digital signal processor (DSP), 24 bit digital audio signal processor with
UltraShifter
™
capability. That’s a lot of adjectives! It is the successor to a long, proud
line of digital signal processors that stretches back to a time when most audio
manufacturers didn’t know digital audio from Morse code.
The H8000FW is loaded with features that put it in a class by itself. It has 12 AES/EBU
digital inputs and outputs, eight ADAT digital inputs and outputs, two S/P DIF digital
inputs and outputs, and four analog inputs and outputs, as well as 16 channels or FireWire
for connection to a PC or Mac and very comprehensive routing capabilities for
controlling them. The H8000FW houses two independent signal processors, each having
eight inputs and eight outputs (imaginatively dubbed "DSP A" and "DSP B"). The two
processors can be run in parallel, in series, or in any mutant variation thereof. In addition,
the H8000FW can run "monolithic programs" that use the processing resources of both
DSP A and B to run just one large program.
The variety and depth of the programs that the H8000FW possesses are truly amazing,
from lush reverbs, to choruses, to flanges, to delays, to pitch shifters, to dynamics, to
EQs, to filters, to distortions, to synthesizers, to samplers, to ring modulators, and
everything in-between. The H8000FW can do it all. And if that’s not enough, DSP A
boasts nearly three minutes of sample time
in addition to the 44 seconds of delay time
found on both DSP A and DSP B!
And for the user who is interested in making his or her own programs (if the huge number
of factory programs aren’t enough!), the H8000FW continues the "modular programming
paradigm" that made the DSP4000 and its offspring famous. Programs are composed of
individual building blocks, or "modules," that allow the user to create original programs.
Inspiration and creativity are given no bounds. . .
As you read this manual, it may be easy to "lose sight of the forest for the trees." Always
bear in mind the following: