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An amazing world of machines and sounds you have! This gives me food for thought, always appreciated.

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Running Aalto on 10.5.8 should be fine.

Can you load any other VST instrument plugins in Reaper or Bidule? The Aalto VST has worked well in testing.

The AU problem may be related to the validation issue. I'm dealing with this now and hope to have a fix this week. Sorry for the trouble.

Re: Logic validation, I hope to have a fix for this issue later this week. I think this is a problem with Logic’s validator only, so in the meantime, Aalto should work for you if you use Logic’s plugin manager to force it to run.  Sorry for the difficulty.

To get the new presets, you can use the demo installer, which does have them. Then install the release version over the demo.

The installer checks for existing stuff file by file, so it should never write over anything you might have in the Presets folders.

Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks for your support!

Several users and I have been running Aalto on Ableton Live 9.0.5 since its release. One person reports a repeatable problem that forces Live to quit with its "serious error" dialog. So if you are working with Aalto and a previous Live version, I recommend that you do not update to 9.0.5 right now. Stay tuned for news of an Aalto update.

The new Logic Pro X seems to be hosting Aalto well without any problems.

That’s the Live and Logic compatibility update.

[EDIT] The problems with Live 9.0.5 have only occurred on Mac OS X 10.7, as far as I know. So this problem may not come up on 10.8.

how do I transpose the key selected in the key menu?

I'm going to have to say, there’s no really good solution for that within Aalto. You can add a little pitch to the oscillator by changing its offset (use shift+drag on the pitch dial for fine tuning), but doing this is a little fiddly if you want to stay in tune.

If you want to transpose what MIDI note goes to what note of the scale, most DAWs offer some way to do that...maybe do it there if possible.

The Scala scale files (.scl) I'm using have a companion file type .kbm that specify a keyboard mapping. I plan to implement reading those files one of these days. But you are probably thinking of a quicker dial where you transpose up and down.

Thanks for this feedback! I appreciate the ideas, even where I am not replying point by point.

Yes, you can put pitch + a sequence into the OSC pitch to get a MIDI transposed sequence. Let me know if you have any questions about that.

The inter-voice routing stuff is a good and interesting suggestion. Mostly when I think along these lines I feel like it will take away from Aalto’s simplicity, so I write down features that will go into a future, fully modular instrument.

3) above: the "quant" button does scale to 12-equal-- in the next update this will quantize to whatever the currently selected scale is in the KEY module.

Some suggestions like 6) true audio rate for the sequencer are tricky: it would seem like an easy change: just make the frequency range bigger, no? But the range is actually carefully limited to avoid aliasing. So this would need to be done with some care.

Thanks for the report. This problem should be fixed in a version coming very soon.

Good point bdeep, thanks

The plugin files will be installed to /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components. If you are on 10.8, you will need to show the Library folder in order to see them. Here’s a link with info on that: http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/Os-X-Lion-Is-Hiding-Your-Library-Folder.htm

Logic sometimes fails to rescan plugins and it’s annoying to make it do so.

First thing is to make sure Logic is not running when you install Aalto.

To force rescanning all plugins, you can delete your ~/Library/com.apple.audiounits.cache file then relaunch Logic.

One thing I’ve also heard suggested is to relaunch Logic in 32-bit mode if you are normally in 64-bit mode, or vice versa.

I'm sorry for the headaches, but as far as I know this is a Logic glitch I don’t have any control over.

I'm excited about that one too!

Welcome aboard, and thanks for the feedback!

The hidden Library folder issue with Mac OS 10.8 is something I should document better. Sorry you got frustrated by this and I'm glad it worked out OK.

Aalto is not a standalone, it is a VST / AU plugin only. Please read the Getting Started section in the manual for more info on formats and installation.

If you would like to return your software, email me at support@madronalabs.com.

Audulus looks cool, but I have not had a chance to try it.

I tried the Renoise demo (2.8.1) on 10.6.8 here and found no menu issues.

I did run into a problem with the "Instrument Settings" pane in Renoise not finding the presets. I’ll see what I can do but since there are good workarounds this is not a high priority issue for me.

I’ve fixed some menu issues for Aalto 1.4 but not seen the exact problem you describe before. I'll download the Renoise demo and give it a look.

I wouldn’t want you to think I'm just lying around enjoying my summer. :-) More information soon!

Hmm, sorry to hear. Does it happen with any other hosts?

Well I'm working mostly on the new plugin here. Aalto 1.4 is a collection of various improvements will come out some time this summer. Mostly compatibility and stability work, no big new features. My plan is that Aalto 2 will come out in Fall sometime.

Nope, no Windows news.

Hi,

Making aupreset files requires Apple APIs, so there is no way to do it on Windows. Maybe you can use someone’s Mac for a minute where it’s a very quick process using the preset menu -> "convert presets".

Hmmm, glad it’s working now. Multiple instance should work fine, I'm not sure what the problem was. If you get the error again, please let me know here.

Yup, I see what you mean. Good ideas.

I’ll check to make sure this is working as intended. Obviously you wouldn’t want the window jumping around when you were clicking through a bunch of patches. But we do want window position to be saved with a DAW document.

two birds, one stone... having tempo or sequencer sync would be a way to sync all the LFOs to each other as well. If you don’t sync them the LFOs will drift apart by design.

The window size is not saved with the patch. Is Aalto changing window size when you switch patches?

If there were a way to sync the LFO to the host, this would synchronize all the voices. People have asked for this feature before, so I will look into doing this at some point soon.