{"id":24392,"date":"2010-03-19T02:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/presetblog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2010-03-19T02:18:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:18:58","slug":"pcm-90-vs-pcm-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24392","title":{"rendered":"PCM 90 \/ PCM Native comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My curiosity built up enough to run a native bundle vs hardware box comparison. Out of the 70, 300, 480, &amp; 80\/90&#8217;s I have available the 90 is the closest unit I have at hand to this native lineage. It&#8217;s also the box that would get replaced 1st. I did a <strong>rough <\/strong>numerical parameter match just to see how close it came <strong>without <\/strong>further tweaking. This is the result.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"wavesurfer-block wavesurfer-playlist\"><div class=\"wavesurfer-player\" data-wave-color=\"#000000\" data-cursor-color=\"#dddddd\" data-progress-color=\"#ededed\" data-height=\"127\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/N-plate.m4a\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-progress\"><progress class=\"wavesurfer-loading\" value=\"0\" max=\"100\"><\/progress><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-buttons_set\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-play\"><span>Play<\/span><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-stop\"><span>Stop<\/span><\/button><div class=\"wavesurfer-time\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-duration\"><\/div><\/div><ol class=\"wavesurfer-list-group\"><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/N-plate.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">1. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">N-plate<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/90-plate.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">2. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">90-plate<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/N-Tiled-Room.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">3. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">N-Tiled-Room<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/90-Tiled-Room.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">4. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">90-Tiled-Room<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/N-C-Hall.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">5. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">N-C-Hall<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/90-C-Hall.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">6. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">90-C-Hall<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/N-Large-R-Hall.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">7. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">N-Large-R-Hall<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/90-Large-R-Hall.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">8. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">90-Large-R-Hall<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/N-Med-Room.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">9. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">N-Med-Room<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/90-Med-Room.m4a\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">10. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">90-Med-Room<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Verb-Test-Drum-Noodle.wav\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">11. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">Verb-Test-Drum-Noodle<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:34<\/div><\/li><\/ol><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My curiosity built up enough to run a native bundle vs hardware box comparison. Out<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24392\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PCM 90 \/ PCM Native comparison<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[61,89,90,102],"class_list":["post-24392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","tag-lexicon","tag-pcm-90","tag-pcm-native","tag-reverb","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24370,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24370","url_meta":{"origin":24392,"position":0},"title":"PCM 70 Ver 2 &#038; Ver 3 SysEx Preset Registers.","author":"Eric","date":"June 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The PCM 70 Ver 2 & Ver 3 have completely different Preset Registers. 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