Hi Randy,
I simply love Kaivo!
For my daily work, it somehow makes NI Reaktor superfluous, because Kaivos workflow is much more intuitive.
I do miss one thing, though:
External Input of Audio.
The Resonator and Body-Models are so good, I would love to have the opportunity, to blend between Granulated Waveforms and an Audiostream.
I guess it´s not an easy thing to do, but from a users point of view, it would be great to have a little checkbox, which switches one of the 4 audiotracks to LIVE Input, and just sends incoming Audio (without any Granulation, of course) to the output of the module, so one could blend via the "Y"-Parameter between the sources...
As I said, not an easy thing to do, I guess, but would be great to have...
Sincerely, TonvaterJan
Another vote for the above idea! I assume this has already been discussed to death either on this forum or internally at Madrona Labs, but I'm curious as to what the current opinion about it is?
I'd find external audio processing unbelievably useful - I use Ableton's Corpus with a real low wet % on lots and lots of tracks just to add a little spice. The thought of having access to Kaivo's modulation to deepen that spice even further is pretty much making me salivate.
Obviously "bounce the track out and import it into the granulator!" is the immediate solution, but from a workflow and live experimentation perspective I would personally find huge value in using Kaivo's modelling section as an effects plugin.
Regardless of the above, thanks a bunch for Kaivo and I can't really sing its praises high enough. By far the most inspiring piece of software I've ever used and it really makes you start to philosophically contemplate the potential for original 'art' in the digital domain, rather than just trying to recreate analogue sounds from 30 years ago...
I hear you, thanks for the good feedback. Kaivo is designed for processing offline files only, and it would not be easy to add live input. I have a future product planned that will do live processing. It's too soon to even think about when I will release this, but please stay tuned.