Many Gemini users have probably wondered if it’s possible for UDO to develop a voice card upgrade to take the Gemini from 20 to 24 or more voices. Giving Super 8 users a chance to match the voices of the Gemini seems to take a bit of the shine away from its flagship specs. Would be great to be able to upgrade to a true 12 binaural voices ala two Super 6s.
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I’d love to see this as well, however, after watching a couple of upgrade videos, the Super 8 apparently uses the same main board as the Gemini. Accordingly, there are 2 empty voice board slots on a standard S8; easy enough to just thumb a couple of voice cards into those slots - like upgrading ram on a PC.
On the Gemini, these slots are filled. Therefore, to achieve an additional 4 voice upgrade, UDO would need to develop a separate add-on system board to accommodate the voice cards along with a way to mount it into the Gemini in such a way that an average user can properly install it.
I’d love to see this happen, but from this admittedly layman’s perspective, it seems impractical.
What I would really like to see is an editor/librarian, both computer and app based; it would be great to sit a smart phone or tablet right in that beautiful empty spot on the top left corner of the Gemini.
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I see what you’re saying. If one slot holds 1x binaural 2x mono voice card, you would need two more empty slots on top of the 10x full slots to get those extra 2x binaural 4x mono voices. The board would need some kind of expansion header to attach to another breakout board that has two or more extra slots.
And yes, it would be great to have some kind of patch editor/librarian and VST controller for interfacing with DAWs, most likely through the USB port. You could make changes on either the Gemini or the editor/librarian and have both sides update in near real time. I suppose naming the patches would only be stored on the software side, associated with the corresponding slot letter and number.
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