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I guess you are using the VST version of Aalto? VST imposes this dumb limit of parameter ranges from 0.-1. I think that if you use the AU version instead, you should be able to send the actual frequency as a floating point pitch parameter.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll be working on the CPU use, and posting some tips on how to get more out of it, so stay tuned.
Hi Valery,
I think of all the presets after the divider (Starting with Alessandros...) as user presets. you can get rid of these if you don't want them, or you can add your own directories here. Just click Save As... to save your preset, then make a new folder inside the Aalto folder.
The directories are all in the same place. Any directory staring "Aalto", will go before the divider.
I'm going to do a couple-day intensive on the Soundplane/Aalto/Kaivo connection next week. Thanks for the contribution, and please stay tuned for an update.
The choices for models are a way to distill all the parameters required for a physical model into a more useful interface. There are many parameters and in general, big areas in the parameter space that just don't sound like anything useful. So think of the modes as a map to the useful "islands" in the big multidimensional ocean of parameters.
One island's territory might overlap with another island at different parameter settings, so you kind of can, actually, morph between one model and another. This will become more clear as I add some more models.
Feel free to play with the mystery parameters but they will probably go away at some point.
Yeah, that won't work so well!
Kaivo is meant for using short samples, 8 seconds at the most. It will load everything in the samples directory into RAM on startup. So you will have to pick them out intentionally and not try to use your whole library.
Not a familiar problem to me. Thanks for the report. I'll check out Kaivo in FL 11 / WIn 8 as soon as I get a chance.
The window resizing should get remembered, so this sounds like a bug that may have popped up recently. Thanks for the report—I'll look into it.
Built-in MIDI mapping is something I will do in a future update. People keep asking me for it, so I know it's important to my customers, but doing it right will not be trivial.
Meanwhile I make sure MIDI mapping works well with the most popular DAWs, which are pretty much Ableton Live and Logic. I like Ableton's "configure" button approach to mapping.
The relationship between pitch, rate and your source sound in the granulator is kind of complex. Please check out the manual section on pitch vs. rate (pg. 13)
In general, you have to connect both the pitch from the KEY modules to both the pitch and rate inputs of the granulator to play in tune. And, the patcher output dials (sometimes called attenuverters around here) have to be at their default (double-click) settings.
Also if you have an oscillator sound without "wrap" on, you will get weird effects near the end.
If after some exploration you think you have really identified a bug, you can send me the patch w / audio file to support @ madronalabs.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll give this some attention in the next update. Kaivo allows a huge dynamic range, and obviously that's by design. But ideally you would never get "smacked" by it unexpectedly as you did.
Please let me know the particular presets, if you can find them again.
Thanks for the detailed feedback. I will give this some attention for the next update.
I added an XP workaround for the next update.
@uncle groove fixed: see your email.
Glad to hear it.
Sorry you are having troubles!
When the website was busy, I know for a fact some of the preset&samples downloads got corrupted. I would try downloading that installer again.
On second thought, you say you are moving the files though. So, maybe there is some other problem.
The installer should put them in c:(you)/AppData/Roaming/Madrona Labs/Kaivo/Samples. Could this be the wrong user? Administrator instead of yourself? Or vice versa?
This is not a problem. I should rename it to "notice" or something.
Hi,
Any CPU since 2006 or so, should have SSE 3. So for haj I know, the message is in error.
I will look at a fix ASAP.
Are you running Windows XP by any chance?
To be clear, you CAN load your own samples right now! You just have to do it by putting them into the Samples directory yourself outside the program. They are standard WAV files-- instructions are in the read_me_first file that came with your download.
Kaivo's noise generator and triggers allow much more precise patching of certain musical ideas than Aalto. I look forward to exploring this road!
Oh no posting patches is broken--- we added some horrible hack to the site so that Aalto patches would show up--- let me try to find that.
I'll leave it up for info, thanks.
Hi Joey,
Sorry the website wording is a bit confusing. There's not a sale now---$129 is the normal retail price. I just meant it's selling now. I don't plan to have a sale on Kaivo until the annual holiday sales time.
Somehow I missed this question entirely until now. Sorry for the delay, and always feel free to email me with questions.
Sounds like a bug. I'm going to be looking at the Soundplane integration again, so please keep in touch about this. Since I don't have one I'll need your help to sort out any Kyma issues!
Without hearing what's going on, my guess is, you are listening to a preset where the Body is mainly coming through only on one channel. This can depend on a lot of things like frequency content in the source, what kind of Body is being used and of course the panning settings.
I would try loading various factory patches (dulcimer a good start) and then try the nonlin. dial.
Hi Bodhi,
This is because I'm no longer making .aupreset files for the Audio Unit version. It uses the same .mlpreset files as the VST version now. I know this is kind of sad because a few menus in Mac apps such as this won't be filled in. But the costs of doing this outweighed the benefits, in my opinion, because I needed to write a preset converter and keep it updated, and the whole issue with two kinds of presets was confusing to many.
Hey it's the Kaivo beta thread! 1.0b1 is going out to folks on the beta list right now. The beta distribution is closed now, but feel free to discuss anything you like about it here.
If you made any audio you would like to share, please throw it on the Soundcloud group and post a link here. I wish we could embed Soundcloud content here, but we can't. You can embed text links using Markdown---the syntax for that is described here.
Hi,
Aalto is not an application, it is a plugin in VST and AU formats. You will have to use it with a VST or Audio Unit host.
The plugin should be in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components. To get here in the Finder, the path starts from "Computer" then "Macintosh HD" or whatever you have your system hard drive called.
best,
Randy
Hay guys, I'm having a blank moment, how do I use ENV 1 and 2?
You put a trigger into them, from the KEY gate, SEQ gate, or any old place (any signal can be used as a trigger, env will trigger when it crosses 0 going up)
OK, I'll get on this ASAP.
So, the Soundplane deals with notes as opposed to scales. Notes you can think of as whole numbers like MIDI. 60 for C, 62 for D, etc. Synths like Aalto, Kaivo and so on can map this data to scales, which might be equal-tempered, a gamelan tuning, or whatever. You can add your own scales here by making a Scala .scl file.
The Soundplane doesn't have a concept of tuning, it just sends notes. These notes can be in patterns besides chromatic, like penatonic, dorian, etc. I think this setup gives the needed flexibility while giving easy performance controls on the Soundplane.
Great to hear, thanks for the update!