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You may or may not have noticed: ENV2 in Aalto has a repeat dial that makes it into another LFO.
Oh sorry re: attenuverter! They're the little dials on patcher outputs. Attenuator + inverter. I could have sworn this was in the manual. Some people started calling hardware modular knobs this originally.
Thanks for the careful report, I will investigate.
Have you tried Bitwig as a host? Its modulators make it easy to effectively have an LFO for every parameter you can modulate. I've tested it with Aalto and they work well together. Most any host could be used to set up a bunch of LFOs, but having a good interface as Bitwig does helps a lot.
Anything you can send an LFO to in Aalto you do via the attenuverters—and these give you the ability to invert the LFO and modulate the destination up or down.
The vox technique Christian wrote about also works in Aalto.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I agree an on/off switch is needed somewhere but yes, most hosts have them. Not a dumb idea! Glad you're enjoying Kaivo.
Nice, thanks for sharing!
Welcome, and thanks for the feedback.
I don't think a randomizing function is something I would add to Aalto. The main issue is that done simply, it would make really useless sounds a lot of the time, maybe painful shrieks sometimes, and a lot of work would have to be done to get around that.
There are some environments like Max/MSP or even Reaper where it's pretty simple to make scripts that do things like randomize a parameter. So with a little work you could set up a randomizer that meets your needs.
FL Studio and Bidule (hosts) also offer randomize functions, maybe with less or no scripting involved.
Sorry you're running into this issue. Please stay tuned for an update soon.
If you experience the problem with Aaltoverb again, can you please send me a screenshot? You can email it to support@madronalabs.com.
I think I've figured this one out. Stay tuned for an update soon.
Hi, sorry about the trouble, I'm not sure what's going on here. Are there any particular presets that seems to be giving you a problem? I haven't seen anything like this with Virta recently but I will give it a shot with Reaper and see if I can reproduce.
Meanwhile here's a 1.8.3 installer: http://madronalabs.com/media/virta/Virta1.8.3.pkg . Note you may have to delete your old plugins manually to convince the installer to go "backwards". You can find them in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components and /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST.
if 1.8.3 changes anything I'm very interested in your results—please let me know.
If you use other DAWs / plugin hosts please let me know if this issue ever came up outside of Reaper.
Sure, I'd love to make one some rainy day soon.
You can send a MIDI program change message to Aalto, and then it will pick a preset from in the "MIDI Programs" directory inside the Presets directory. The MIDI message just has a number and picks from those presets in alphabetical order. I don't remember the Max/MSP side of things—either there's a special message to the vstplugin host object or you can just send the right sequence of MIDI bytes raw.
Please keep me posted. If it happens again, you can note if the output oscilloscope is still working. it shows the signal coming out of the plugin, so if there's any signal visible the problem is likely to be with the host somehow.
Re: Virta, some of the presets only work with audio input and some also work just with MIDI. You may know this, but it's the first thing I would check.
Sorry you're having trouble. I can't say I've heard of this problem before. I still test in Live 9 and I have not run into anything similar.
Does it happen every time?
How are you changing the patch, with the menu / arrows on the plugin or something else?
Very happy to hear, thanks for posting.
Hi there, thanks for the kind comments and for your patience. I appreciate the reminder and will give this request a bump.
Meanwhile you could put some scales you use a lot into the "Scales" folder directly if you like. Then they won't be in a second menu and if you star the names w/ a digit or "+" or something they will be at the top of the main menu (after 12-equal). This will save you at least a little menu diving.
I remember it well. I'd call it a learning experience for me. :-) It wasn't a lot of effort, but a few people sort of freaked out about the idea of their synths having some intentional randomness that was out of their control and wanted to know things like, can I turn it off? does someone else have a better sounding one?
The differences were all very subtle, and probably not audible unless you knew what you were listening for.
There's a deeper lesson somewhere about the contradiction between peoples' desire for control with digital instruments and their embrace of analog flaws and restrictions.
Thank you for posting again with the fix! I hope this helps someone in the future. I'll make a note and see if there's anything I can do about this in the installers.
Sounds like you are on Windows—Scales will be in C:/AppData/Roaming/Madrona Labs/Scales. But this shouldn't be empty, the installer should put the scales there. This is how the popup menu gets filed.
I have some new voice allocation code in the works that should fix this issue. Thanks for the feedback.
I don't have a fix yet. I haven't forgotten about it.
Yup, that makes sense. I'll see if I can make unison / MPE do something reasonable!
Sorry, the manual is not up to date on MPE outputs.
in MPE mode x is mapped to cc#73, as I answered in more detail here: https://madronalabs.com/topics/7440-aalto-s-key-module-outputs-in-mpe-mode-and-linnstrument
I'll investigate unison mode in MPE and at least make it try to do something reasonable. I don't think this was ever tested, because why would you use unison mode with MPE?
I'll check out Kaivo and see about changing it. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for the feedback.
Here is 1.8.5: https://madronalabs.com/media/aalto/Aalto1.8.5.pkg
I'm on the trail of this bug and should have an update available soon.
Some people contributed a few sounds that just went into the "Kaivo percussion" folders etc. It could have been some of those. I can't remember for sure.
Thanks for the report, I'll try to reproduce here.
Sorry to hear about this. Please go back to 1.8.5 for now. You can find the 1.8.5 installer here: https://madronalabs.com/media/aalto/AaltoInstaller1.8.5.exe
You may have to remove the 1.9.0 DLLs manually first.
Hi, I don't do a summer sale every year, this year I did an Aaltoverb release and announced the Simple bundle. I'm always trying new things. That said you can count on a year-end sale this year. Thanks for the good words.
I'm just one programmer with big ideas and limited resources, and I'm often overly optimistic. I'm sorry this results in bad time estimates sometimes, I'm working on it.