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Hi, did you get this info (/Library/Audio/Presets/Madrona Labs/Scales ) from the manual? If so , please let me know because it's out of date. Sorry about that.
the scales are now installed to ~/Music/Madrona Labs/Scales.
Nice tip, thanks!
Welcome!
After you've tried the patches to get a sense for the sound palette, I would explore by building up a patch from the default. Some of the patches in the "Aalto techniques" section show connections you might not think to make otherwise.
As you've found out you can't save with the demo, but if you come up with a really great patch you can't bear to lose, you can take a screen shot and duplicate it pretty easily because everything is on the one page!
As far as support I usually answer emails and forum posts on the same day. Some days I can't because there's only one of me and I have to go camping sometimes.
We talked about it. I think the rack version is the one to do first, if only because we don't have to worry about a case and power supply. And of course there's noting stopping anyone from making their own enclosures if they want.
I'll take a look at CV Pal for more ideas. thanks!
Thanks for the feedback. I'm doing some work on timing issues across all the plugins soon. I will investigate tuning as well. I have noticed that some scales are not loading properly.
Hi there,
sorry for the delay in replying—I had to find time to open up the relevant code so I could tell you something useful.
The voice allocator is a bit complex in an effort to get it to feel "natural" and get the most out of four voices.
Stealing voices happens when the number of voices asked to sound exceeds the number of available voices. It goes as follows: In the event sustain is held down, the oldest voice will be the one stolen. When sustain is not held down, the voice sounding at a note nearest to the new note request will be stolen.
This is intended to allow you to, say, play a low triad and then wibble away on a solo line up above while the chord rings out.
In the future I will likely add different modes for voice allocation as a preference, of which of course simple rotation would be one.
The second SMMS meeting will take place at Ada’s Technical books in Seattle on April 1, from 7–9pm. This is a monthly meeting for presentations and discussions about making electronic music.
I'm going to do a gentle introduction to Cycling '74's Max/MSP for the first hour, assuming there is interest. Then we can have an hour for open discussion and working on the web site and such.
Sorry for the very late notice on this month—been a bit slammed with the Virta release but I wanted to stick to the regular schedule.
If you’re interested in contributing something to SMMS, like organizational help, or a presentation of your own, there’s lots of room to do so, so please come by!
[http://seattlemusicmachines.org] has the beginnings of a website (thanks Bryan) and should be the place to go for info very shortly. There will also be a Facebook group soon.
Very cool Mark, I'm glad you've taken it into your own hands to make some of these enhancements—happy to have your skills on board! I'll be releasing a new Soundplane version pretty soon and I'll be excited to try and merge in the OSC control.
A good idea for an upgrade. Added to the list...
Thanks for posting this solution!
Yes, it's on for tonight! Info is at http://seattlemusicmachines.org. Also subscribe to the Google group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/seattlemusicmachines for emails. Hope to see you!
I have heard of problems with Avast before, so disabling it during the download and installation seems like an OK solution for now.
In the near future I am going to switch to a different way of displaying the license information. Then I can codesign the installers and both Mac OS and Windows will be happier.
I think the installer leaves it there in case you want to uninstall. You can safely remove it.
No worries, I appreciate just about any suggestions.
Thanks for the suggestions! These have the right feel. We are definitely going to keep it simple.
Hi Stefan,
in this patch you have the toggle "x env" on in ENV2. This multiplies the envelope by the MIDI note velocity. When the envelope is triggered by audio, the results may be confusing. This may explain what you are experiencing.
I can confirm that I don't get any output with this patch either. I guess we'll have to ask Ed what the idea was!
Still having problem on Windows, only "pre" lets signal through. Version 1.0.2
I just checked the 64 and 32 bit VSTs on Windows and could not reproduce.
Possibly it's a problem with parameters. Make sure that lo cut and hi cut are letting audio through.
what if you
- go to preset "passthru"
- move patch cord from "pre" to "comp"
Version 1.0.2 of our favorite new voice-controlled synth and effects toolbox, Virta, is now available for download. This release brings the following changes:
- VST version now comes as a MIDI-controlled effect, enabling Cubase compatibility.
- improved graphics performance with OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
- changed preset loading to strip unused settings
- fixed a problem with Reaper always passing through dry audio
- fixed a problem with audio stopping at some parameter settings
- brightened background color
Enjoy!
Definitely a good idea. I thought about it when designing, will probably add it in the future.
I think that realtime modulation of ENV1 would be a good addition to Aalto etc. It really should have worked that way from the beginning. I'll have to check to make sure it's not breaking any other uses though.
Meanwhile you could ask the Linnstrument team to add a zero upon release, like Soundplane does. They seem to update the firmware pretty often.
MPE is a good workaround, and yes it's normal that it starts on channel 2. Channel 1 is a kind of global control channel. You can read the full MPE spec draft here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vpjxoPHw82X3xyNvE6_hsDeL86vloNQZC83NHD8edow
I hear you about restarting on voice 1. I can't think of an easy way to do it currently. You could try adding automation that changes the number of voices to 1 and back to 4, I think that will work.
I might pad out the sample collection when I add some models. All the synthetic samples are made with Aalto!
thanks for this feedback. I'll see what I can do to bring Virta in line!
There's currently no way to do this. It's a reasonable idea—people have requested access to the MIDI data from the sequencer before. But the problem is there is no MIDI data. Inside the plugin it's all raw signals, a lot like CV. So this could happen but will take some effort.
Thanks for your patience. I have been working on some other issues that I also am hoping to fix for the next release. Either way I know you need an update so I'll wrap this up ASAP.
There is a MIDI timing bug that shows up only on certain hosts. FL Studio is one. If you are able to set "fixed buffer size" in the DAW's audio preferences, that should be a workaround while I address this issue. Thanks for the detailed report.
OK, thanks for the report, I'll check this and try to fix for 1.0.2.
I have to get Virta updated for other reasons so I was hoping this test would do something obvious. But it's possible this is only a problem with Kaivo.
This is something to try. an AU component.
http://madronalabs.com/media/temp/virta1.0.2a1.component.zip
Recent builds of JUCE-based plugins in El Cap seemed to be having problems. There is more info here: https://forum.juce.com/t/laggy-guis-on-osx-el-capitan/15717/10
I had to remake the whole Virta build to get it to build in a newer version of JUCE with the fixes I need. Some features will not be right! Parameters will behave strangely. But trying some presets should be possible. Please do that and let me know if the glitches are better in El Capitan. Fingers crossed.