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Nice!
Thanks for the feedback. I made a ticket and I'll take a look at this soon.
Beta testing is closed now, release is coming very soon.
If anyone has a 1.1 installer to share with Nihad, please feel free. Meanwhile I'll look for an older backup when I can.
I have seen this occasionally also. I think it only happens when the CPU is under heavy load. I'm back to Soundplane software soon and I'll see what I can do about it.
The most recent app info is kept at
http://madronalabs.com/topics/1691-sticky-soundplane-client-for-mac
which is the topmost "hardware" forum topic. I should put it on the product page too.
Here's the actual link:
http://madronalabs.com/media/soundplane/Soundplane1.4.0.zip
I hope that we will be able to stream the event live.
Well, Logic's meter will do its best to measure just audio processing. Activity monitor is, in my experience, more useful in general, but will always include the UI drawing, which in the case of Aalto can be expensive.
I would try just turning animations off and see if that helps.
Good morning again! With version 1.7 of Aalto, our favorite West Coast softsynth now adds MPE support, and other improvements.
MPE stands for Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression. It's a way of using MIDI to transmit the rich, per-note expressive performances that instruments like the Haken Continuum, Seaboard, Linnstrument and of course our own Soundplane are capable of. Geert Bevin, longtime Eigenharp player and currently a software developer at Moog Music, lead the charge on this effort, and I thank him for moving things forward. You can find Geert's post with the MPE specifications here: [expressiveness.org]
Many smart and experienced people, including all us makers of new and ambitious controllers, looked over a draft of this spec and contributed changes. MPE makes sense, is easy to implement, and should be very useful. With its addition Aalto becomes one of a just a few great sound makers out there for per-note expression. I am hotly anticipating more Linnstrument+Aalto, Seaboard+Aalto sounds.
Soundplane owners have always had a great connection to Aalto over OSC. But the big deal for the Soundplane is that now, while we are still waiting for the OSC-based composition environment of our dreams, we can use ordinary DAWs to record and edit an entire Soundplane performance.
Aalto version 1.7 also brings improved Soundplane compatibility with MIDI patches, optimized animation drawing, and bug fixes. MPE support in Kaivo synthesizer will follow next month with other changes.
1.7 is of course a free update again. The demo is at the usual place, and license holders as usual can click "My downloads" up on the right there to get your update.
Macintosh users, please note:
Aalto 1.7 requires Mac OS X 10.7 or higher.
@rsdio has done quite a bit of work on it. We've been stalled waiting for me to finish up Virta, so we can finish the project together. Virta is getting released very soon and then I can return to Soundplane-related work. I'm excited about it too.
Hmm, that's odd. You have been using Aalto for a while, do I remember right? So did this just start happening and did anything change beforehand, like the version of Logic?
What if you shut the graphic window?
Also, CPU measured how? In Logic? Do you get audible glitches?
Hi and thanks for the feedback. I have a bunch of parameter-related things to do, including OSC automation of all the parameters, that I'm saving up to do at once as a redesign. So I haven't worked much on parameters etc. lately. I have make a note about this button trigger thing and will be sure to do it when I work on parameters sometime soon.
Hi, I'm interested but I didn't get the email.
Hello!
Sorry for the delay in chiming in about this, I missed the thread the first time around.
I think Scott identifies at least one bug, because releasing a note should never stop another note from playing, whether with channel pressure or notes-on. I guess this is obvious. So I have made a bug tracker issues out of it and will look at it as soon as I get get the Virta beta out.
All the MPE code is relatively new, and it's complicated, and there are not many people playing on it yet. So it's not surprising that there are issues with Linnstrument. Unfortunately I don't have one handy to test myself. First I'll see if I can make the problem happen with the Soundplane here, and if not, I may take you up on your kind offer to send me some MIDI data. Thanks for your patience.
I'll also make a note to make sure the legato / unison thing is described well in the docs.
I have no idea what legato would mean without unison on, in other words, what is a poly legato note triggering mode? And any playing you can do in unison mode with legato off, you can do with it on. This is why they were combined originally. That and my mania for making everything very simple and visible, and thereby not having a lot of controls. I am looking to add some "expert settings" in the future and can fit in some more options there.
Cool project, I look forward to the day when I am using an "audio appliance" and not a social media / streaming media computer to make music.
Thanks for your purchase. I get what you are trying to do and would like to support this granulator-as-sampler use if it doesn't interfere with the granulator as granulator. With rate 0 and loop off, there should be no overlapping if I recall right.
If that doesn't help, can you send me your patch and some notes to support @ madronalabs? Then I'll do what I can to make it work.
I have never tried using Scala the application. I use a text editor to make the scales in Scala format when I need new ones.
The Kaivo / Aalto scales came directly from a big Scala archive online and have not been edited.
If you have a different .kbm mapping for your .scl files somewhere, they could seem to be out of tune. Just a guess.
honk honk.
Since 1.6.0, patches have been stored in /Music/Madrona Labs. If you are using a previous version, they will be in ~/Library. If you are using 1.6 or newer, select "convert patches" to move any old patches from the Library folders and convert them to the new format.
Hi Tim, I think I took care of you by email but if not let me know.
Hello! Soon.
It will be a fun thing to work on after I finish Virta.
Are there are any new kinds models you can think of that you would want?
OK, weird, will investigate ASAP.
yes, Virta is taking its final form and will be done soon.
Thanks. Obviously this shouldn't be happening. Possibly it's a an endless loop involving both client and server—does it happen with only the Soundplane app running? If not, you could try adding components again until the flood occurs, and that would be a helpful test. In any case I'll make a note of this issue and check into it soon.
Thanks ! I think the algorithm is nothing too tricky. A lot of the sound comes from a waveshaper in the loop, and getting it right was about tuning that waveshaper and the filters until it sounded really good, just spending a lot of time listening.
Definitely the reverb, which I will bring back as a freebie one of these days. Maybe the others too. Thanks for the thoughts.
To be fair, it does go to 11.
On Windows, the preset files should be installed to C:/(your home directory)/AppData/Roaming/Madrona Labs. Can you see them there? If the files are there, they should appear in the preset menu. If the installer gave you no errors, I don’t know why the files would not be there. What do you see when you click the menu?
It looks like these AppData folders are now hidden by default in Windows 10. To see them, try this tip: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2690709/whats-in-the-hidden-windows-appdata-folder-and-how-to-find-it-if-you-need-it.html
If the files are not there, possibly you ran the installer as Administrator, and so the files went to C:/Users/Admin/Appdata/Roaming/Madrona Labs.
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